Modern healthcare built on trust, privacy, and outcomes.
TalkDoc is starting with Medi-Cal but our mission is universal. We are building the infrastructure for high-quality, AI-assisted asynchronous care that reaches patients everywhere—from California to the rest of the world.
Our longterm goal is to improve mental healthcare by providing continuous, personalized support from AI tools between psychiatry and therapy sessions — making care more affordable, stress-free, and easier to use for everyone.
Our models perform the heavy lifting in clinical work so your doctor doesn't have to, learning from secure, de-identified outcome data to increase efficiency every step of the way.
Our software exists so that your clinician spends the visit with you, not with your chart. The AI drafts the note, organizes the follow-up, and handles the paperwork in the background — so the hour you have with a doctor is actually an hour.
From a single rural county to a statewide healthcare platform.
Nine years ago, TalkDoc started out serving a single rural California county where mental-health care was effectively unavailable. Over time, that practice grew into a team of doctors and technologists delivering care across five counties.
We started with Medi-Cal to bring expert care to those who need it most. Building a robust safety net first prepared us with the right technology and the right team to branch outwards, allowing us to now expand into primary care and commercial health plans.
Our technology ensures the real product is exactly what it should be: how fast and how well a real clinician can see a real patient.
Our team.
A small group of clinicians and technologists who've been delivering high-quality healthcare together for years.
Rishi Sachdev
Technologist and operator. Three-time founder and former CTO at Rooster.co. Son of two psychiatrists. Co-founded a psychiatry staffing company before TalkDoc and has spent the last decade scaling healthcare and consumer platforms.
David Grossblatt
Founder of Founders Dojo, a San Francisco startup studio and founder community active since 2007. Seasoned entrepreneur, angel investor, and operator with a long track record of helping early-stage companies scale.
Dr. Neelam Sachdev, MD
Dr. Sachdev leads TalkDoc's clinical direction and mentors our clinicians to ensure high-quality care. She brings a trauma-informed, whole-person lens to every appointment — and she'll never make you feel like a number.
Dr. Dre Irizarry, MD
Dr. Irizarry believes the best psychiatry happens in real conversation — not a rushed 15-minute check-in. He specializes in helping people who've been through the system and lost faith in it. He works best with patients dealing with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and people who've never felt heard before.
Dr. Janak Sachdev, MD
Dr. Sachdev is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist with decades of experience treating complex mental health conditions. As an active clinician and the father of TalkDoc's CEO Rishi Sachdev, he brings both deep clinical expertise and a personal commitment to the TalkDoc mission.
Advisory Board & Supporters.
Guiding our strategy behind the scenes, from healthcare scaling to enterprise partnerships.
Jon Louis
Healthcare marketing leader with past tenure at Deloitte and senior marketing roles across healthcare. Advises TalkDoc on marketing and go-to-market strategy.
Rachna Dayal
Former Global Director of Transforming Customer Experience at Johnson & Johnson. Founder and Managing Partner at Sugati Ventures, an early-stage health-tech VC fund.
Dan Lieberman
Dan provided pivotal early guidance to TalkDoc. He brings operational scale-up experience from his time as SVP & General Manager of Behavioral Health at Doctor On Demand/Included Health.
Roy Rodenstein
Roy offered foundational strategic insights during TalkDoc's early stages, drawing on his extensive experience scaling consumer tech.
KJ Dhaliwal
KJ's early advisory support was instrumental in shaping TalkDoc's product vision and market entry strategy.
Graduated Clinicians.
The dedicated clinicians who have helped build TalkDoc and provide care to our patients in the past.
Sonia Kumar, LCSW
Sonia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in California. With an MSW from USC and an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, she utilizes mindful, holistic, and trauma-informed approaches like CBT and EFT to support patients with anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Alex Chen
Alex is a dedicated clinician who provided expert psychiatric care and support for our patients in California.
Marcella Wilson, MD
Dr. Wilson is a board-certified psychiatrist with over 40 years of experience. A graduate of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, she delivered high-quality psychiatric care, helping patients achieve better mental well-being in the San Diego area.
Hazem Hashem, MD
Dr. Hashem is a highly experienced psychiatrist with over 40 years of practice in Fresno, California. He offered dedicated psychiatric services, taking a thoughtful approach to treating complex mood disorders and schizophrenia.
Deborah Sterling, LCSW
Deborah is an experienced Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California who specialized in providing psychotherapy and compassionate support for anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Veronica Kamau, PMHNP-BC
Veronica is a Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 12 years of experience. She provided comprehensive care, focusing on depression, anxiety, PTSD, and integrative treatment plans.
Patrick Charles, PMHNP-BC
Patrick is a board-certified PMHNP who offered expert psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and mental health counseling for conditions such as ADHD, depression, and PTSD.
Stacey Mitchell, PMHNP
Stacey is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner based in Santa Clara, CA. She provided dedicated psychiatric telehealth services, helping California patients navigate their mental health journeys.
Amir Faghfoory, MD
Dr. Faghfoory is a California-licensed psychiatrist who completed his training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He delivered comprehensive outpatient psychiatric care, focusing on improving the daily lives of his patients.
Charles "Chip" Stone, DO
Dr. Stone is a board-certified psychiatrist based in Riverside, CA, specializing in forensic psychiatry with over 20 years of experience. He provided expert psychiatric insights and personalized care to our patients.
Three commitments to every patient.
A real clinician, every time.
AI drafts, summarizes, and reminds. A licensed human diagnoses, prescribes, and decides. Your care plan is never on autopilot.
Time back, not taken away.
Our software exists so the visit can be longer and the paperwork can be shorter. If the AI isn't saving your clinician time, we're not shipping it.
Built for Medi-Cal from day one.
We didn't bolt Medi-Cal onto a cash-pay product. We started with the hardest-to-reach members and built the clinic, the tooling, and the pricing around them.
Currently partnered with four California Medi-Cal plans.
Alameda Alliance for Health
Alameda County
San Francisco Health Plan
San Francisco County
Central California Alliance for Health
Santa Cruz, Monterey, Merced
Contra Costa Health Plan
Contra Costa County
Don't see your plan? We're actively adding new Medi-Cal partners every quarter.
Care that meets you where you are.
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