Kenzie Butera Davis
CEO, Maro
Bio: Kenzie has played a pivotal role in the growth of over 70 companies from idea to Series A—Digital Health, Edtech, and B2B SaaS—primarily in her role with The Company Lab startup accelerator and as an investor at The JumpFund. Her four-year thesis on the intersection of healthcare and K12 education, which included interviews with parents, schools, and providers, laid the groundwork for launching Maro.
Org Info: Our web-based platform, Maro for Schools, is the single most efficient tool for screening youth (ages 7-17) at school for depression, anxiety, suicide and/or ADHD & getting families to matched care. We bundle Maro for Schools with our integrated mobile app, Maro for Families, that connects families to their child’s school, enabling them to digitally consent to school-based mental health screening, engage with at-home parenting and mental health content, track symptoms and even chat with a pediatrician.
What motivated you to pursue your current work?
I decided to launch Maro after a teenage family member survived a suicide attempt. I observed that most of the solutions in the market were delivering telehealth services but none were solving the downstream problem: identifying mental health concerns early.
What distinct value does your work bring to the digital health field?
We address core challenges in preventative mental healthcare by solving for workflow and implementation inefficiencies, collecting mental health data en masse and creating a communication pathway between disparate stakeholders in a young person’s life: home, school clinic and health plan.
How does your work impact your target end-users or stakeholders?
Student support teams at school: Our efficient universal screening & care triage workflow saves them time.
Students: We give students an avenue to communicate when they are struggling in a private manner through regular, digital, clinically-validated check-ins.
Parents/Guardians: Our integrated mobile app makes it easy for families to be a supportive part of their students’ mental health journey.
Providers: Maro creates a school distribution channel for providers, particularly virtual care partners.
What is one exciting update or near-term opportunity that you would like to share with the digital health community?
Maro was named Oracle Cerner’s Leading Pediatric Health Innovation and World’s Most innovative EdTech Startup (winner out of 900+ companies across 69 countries).
Bio: Kenzie has played a pivotal role in the growth of over 70 companies from idea to Series A—Digital Health, Edtech, and B2B SaaS—primarily in her role with The Company Lab startup accelerator and as an investor at The JumpFund. Her four-year thesis on the intersection of healthcare and K12 education, which included interviews with parents, schools, and providers, laid the groundwork for launching Maro.
Org Info: Our web-based platform, Maro for Schools, is the single most efficient tool for screening youth (ages 7-17) at school for depression, anxiety, suicide and/or ADHD & getting families to matched care. We bundle Maro for Schools with our integrated mobile app, Maro for Families, that connects families to their child’s school, enabling them to digitally consent to school-based mental health screening, engage with at-home parenting and mental health content, track symptoms and even chat with a pediatrician.
What motivated you to pursue your current work?
I decided to launch Maro after a teenage family member survived a suicide attempt. I observed that most of the solutions in the market were delivering telehealth services but none were solving the downstream problem: identifying mental health concerns early.
What distinct value does your work bring to the digital health field?
We address core challenges in preventative mental healthcare by solving for workflow and implementation inefficiencies, collecting mental health data en masse and creating a communication pathway between disparate stakeholders in a young person’s life: home, school clinic and health plan.
How does your work impact your target end-users or stakeholders?
Student support teams at school: Our efficient universal screening & care triage workflow saves them time.
Students: We give students an avenue to communicate when they are struggling in a private manner through regular, digital, clinically-validated check-ins.
Parents/Guardians: Our integrated mobile app makes it easy for families to be a supportive part of their students’ mental health journey.
Providers: Maro creates a school distribution channel for providers, particularly virtual care partners.
What is one exciting update or near-term opportunity that you would like to share with the digital health community?
Maro was named Oracle Cerner’s Leading Pediatric Health Innovation and World’s Most innovative EdTech Startup (winner out of 900+ companies across 69 countries).