Suzzane Goh, Co-Founder & CMO
Neil Hattangadi, Co-Founder & CEO
Cortica is a national pediatric behavioral health provider serving children and adolescents dealing with chronic behavioral and neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism.
“Questa was really in sync and understood our vision. They take the time to really understand the details.”
Neil Hattangadi
Co-Founder & CEO
Their story
Children with autism and other neurodevelopmental differences often require highly specialized care across multiple disciplines, yet traditional treatment options remain fragmented and difficult for families to navigate. Access to comprehensive, coordinated care is limited, leaving many children without the support they need to thrive.
Cortica was founded to change this reality. Co-founders Dr. Suzanne Goh and Neil Hattangadi built the company out of Dr. Goh’s San Diego practice, developing an integrated care model based on cognitive neuroscience, biomedical interventions, and a full spectrum of behavioral, speech-language, and sensorimotor therapies. Unlike providers focused solely on applied behavior analysis (ABA), Cortica’s physician-led, whole-child approach tailors treatment to each child’s unique needs.
At Cortica, collaboration among physicians, therapists, parents, and the broader community is essential to achieving meaningful developmental outcomes. By bringing multiple specialties under one roof, Cortica delivers a seamless, high-quality care experience that helps children reach their full potential.
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Our partnership
The prevalence of autism is rapidly increasing in this country with 1 in 36 children being affected in some capacity as of 2023. We spent several years researching and evaluating platforms that addressed this condition. We already knew Neil from his time as a chief medical device executive at a prior company and began closely following the progress of his new company, Cortica, in providing autism care when he and his co-founder were expanding their San Diego flagship clinic in 2017. We believed that an integrated whole child approach blending medical and behavioral care drove the best clinical outcomes.
We led the company’s initial funding to scale beyond its Southern California roots and since then have accelerated their expansion nationally to be the leader in delivering their whole child model both in fee for service and value-based approaches.
The team involved
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