Mango Health
DefunctYC W24Founded 2023 · 2 employees · 4 known investors
Mango Health develops an AI-powered tool that guides users through exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder, offering continuous support and educational content as an alternative to traditional clinical treatment.
Also known as CurioMD · Mango Health (YC W24)
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W24)
Mango Health was founded in 2023 by Jamison Mercurio and Zachary Gittelman.
Investors · 4
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Mango Health was a US mental health technology company founded in 2023 by Jamison Mercurio (CEO) and Zachary Gittelman (CTO), and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch. Its stated positioning was as an "AI Guide for OCD," offering exposure and response prevention (ERP)-style sessions, 24/7 support, and AI-guided lessons intended to be available at a fraction of the cost of traditional treatment. The company framed the need around research indicating OCD takes an average of 12 years to diagnose and affects nearly 2% of the world population.
The company also pursued a model that used primary care as a distribution channel for therapists. In that configuration, Mango Health took referrals from primary care physicians and handled the post-referral patient journey — scheduling, therapist matching, telehealth visits, care tracking, and insurer claim submission on behalf of both its therapists and the referring primary care practice. For therapists, it offered help getting in-network with major insurance companies plus a referral stream from its primary care partnerships. The approach relied on regulatory changes that allow primary care physicians to be reimbursed for ensuring their patients access therapy. The team operated at a size of two and its Y Combinator profile lists the company as inactive.
Founding story
Mango Health was founded in 2023 by Jamison Mercurio and Zachary Gittelman and joined Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch. Mercurio is a Princeton computer science graduate (Class of 2020) and former Meta iOS and web engineer who worked on Messenger Video Chat and Facebook News; Gittelman is a Michigan and Cornell computer science alum with prior experience at healthcare startups, including insurance billing platform integrations at Medly, scheduling automation work for Mount Sinai, and building a medical supplies marketplace at Tomorrow Health. In developing the primary-care-to-mental-health model, the two founders interviewed and shadowed more than 160 primary care physicians and psychotherapists.
Business model
Mango Health positioned itself between primary care practices, therapists, and patients. It took patient referrals from primary care physicians and managed scheduling, therapist matching, telehealth visits, and care tracking, and submitted insurance claims for both its therapists and the referring primary care practice. On the supply side, it streamlined the process for therapists to become in-network with major insurers and supplied them with referrals sourced through its primary care partnerships. It separately marketed a consumer-facing AI guide for OCD.
Traction
Y Combinator lists the company with a team size of two and a status of inactive. The founders reported interviewing and shadowing over 160 primary care physicians and psychotherapists.
Latest developments
The Y Combinator profile marks Mango Health as inactive and lists Jamison Mercurio and Zachary Gittelman as former founders, with Mercurio subsequently a co-founder at Overton.
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Market position
Mango Health described itself as building a market-leading AI guide for OCD and framed its differentiation around bridging primary care and mental health, noting that more than 40% of primary care patients are estimated by their physicians to need mental healthcare access while physicians lack the time and revenue incentives to coordinate that care.
The company combined a consumer AI OCD guide with an operational layer that used newly available reimbursement rules for primary care physicians, handling the full post-referral patient journey and insurer claims rather than solely matching patients with therapists.
Technology
An AI-based guide for OCD delivering ERP-like sessions, 24/7 support, and AI-guided lessons, alongside operational systems for referral handling, scheduling, therapist matching, telehealth visits, care tracking, and insurance claim submission.
Go-to-market
The company used primary care practices as a distribution channel, recruiting physicians to refer patients into its therapy network, and ran a referral campaign offering $30 per primary care physician introduction. Consumer sign-up was directed to TheMangoHealth.com, with additional information at try-mango.com.
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder seeking accessible therapy; primary care physicians whose patients need mental healthcare access; and psychotherapists seeking patient referrals and insurance network participation.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsMango Health participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, presenting itself as an AI guide for OCD.
The company published a launch post describing a service that takes primary care referrals and manages scheduling, therapist matching, telehealth visits, care tracking, and insurer claim submission, while helping therapists get in-network with major insurers.
Y Combinator's company profile lists Mango Health's status as inactive and its founders as former founders.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 3
primary sources listed
- Mango Health: AI Therapy for OCD | Y Combinatorycombinator.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Mango Health do?
- Mango Health was a Y Combinator-backed startup building AI-guided therapy for OCD and connecting primary care patients to therapists.
- Who founded Mango Health?
- Mango Health was founded by Jamison Mercurio, Zachary Gittelman in 2023.
- Who are Mango Health's investors?
- Mango Health's investors include Baseline Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Y Combinator, First Round Capital.