There’s a quiet storm shaking up behavioral health, and it’s got a name, Hipp Health. David Connors and Faaez Ul Haq didn’t build this to ride the AI wave; they built it because the system’s drowning in red tape and admin bloat. Thousands of therapists are out here trying to deliver care while wrestling compliance docs, Medicaid codes, and session notes like they’re auditioning for a bureaucracy Olympics. The problem wasn’t the therapy. It was the paperwork.
Now Hipp Health just dropped a $6.2M seed round led by RTP Global, with Swift Ventures, Rackhouse Venture Capital & Difference Partners in the mix. Even Four Acres Capital joined the lineup, marking this as the company’s first institutional round. When this caliber of investors shows up, it’s not a fling, it’s a forecast. They see an AI-native platform reshaping a $4B ABA therapy market that’s scaling toward a $30–40B horizon.
The magic here isn’t that it’s AI, it’s how it’s AI. Built from the ground up, not bolted on like digital scaffolding, Hipp automates the messy middle: documentation, compliance, billing, analytics. It’s HIPAA-compliant, lightning fast, and laser-precise. Practices running on Hipp are seeing a 90% drop in claims outstanding. That’s not efficiency, it’s oxygen.
David Connors knows product strategy cold. After years leading at Workday, Bridgelux, and Seagate, he’s got the playbook for turning complexity into clarity. Faaez Ul Haq? He built his data chops at Uber & Pipe, architecting ML systems that deliver, not just demo. Together, they turned decades of frustration in behavioral health into an AI system that thinks like a clinician but works like an ops exec.
And with Jessica Swanson stepping in as Head of Biz Dev, a BCBA who built Summit Health Services into a multi-state ABA provider, the team’s got both the brainpower and battlefield scars to scale. She knows firsthand how compliance chaos slows care, and she’s not here to play defense.
The seed round fuels SF team growth, product acceleration, and deeper AI for Medicaid compliance. In a space where regulation keeps tightening and demand keeps surging, Hipp Health isn’t chasing hype, it’s building backbone.
