Spring Health

Abhishek Chandra co-founded Spring Health in 2016 at Yale University alongside April Koh and Adam Chekroud, where he served as CTO. All three founders were first-generation immigrants, and the company was born from their recognition that mental healthcare lacked data-driven, personalized navigation. Chandra was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Consumer Technology in 2018 at age 23. He later went on to co-found Recora, a cardiac recovery platform, where he serves as CEO — continuing to work at the intersection of technology, healthcare, and behavior change.

Earned a PhD in Psychology from Yale (2018) and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. Prior to founding Spring Health, Chekroud published a landmark 2016 paper in *The Lancet Psychiatry* demonstrating that machine learning could predict antidepressant treatment outcomes using patient-reported data — a line of research that directly became the technological basis for Spring Health's precision mental-health navigation platform. He maintains a dual identity as both an academic researcher and startup executive, a posture that lets Spring Health anchor its product claims in peer-reviewed science while moving quickly as a commercial organization.

Graduated Yale University in 2016 with a BA in Sociology and Computer Science. Prior to Spring Health, she was a Product Manager at Shazam and Co-Founder & CPO at Spylight. She co-founded Spring Health that same year alongside Yale researcher Adam Chekroud, whose clinical research on treatment prediction became the company's scientific foundation. The idea was shaped by her own mental health experiences and watching close friends navigate a fragmented care system. Spring Health has since reached unicorn status, and she joined the McLean Hospital Board of Trustees in 2023. A distinguishing thread in her public posture is the insistence on **precision over speed** — she has argued that the industry's fixation on "faster access" overlooks the harder problem of matching patients to the right provider and treatment path from the start.