Early stage. Honest about it. Built where the gaps are widest.
Materna Health Solutions is a pre-launch bilingual maternal-pediatric platform starting in the US-Mexico border corridors. The page below is the thesis, the addressable market, what we have built so far, and what we are asking for. No traction we have not earned. No partnerships we have not signed.
Honest framing
We are pre-launch. The numbers below are TAM and public-source maternal-health statistics, not Materna Health Solutions metrics. Our own metrics will be published here once we have lived data, with full methodology.
Why this market, why now
The gap is large, the gap is concrete, and it has the wrong trajectory.
US maternal mortality is rising while it falls in nearly every comparable country. The disparity is widest for Black, Hispanic, and rural patients. Existing platforms tend to serve the easy cases.
~3.6M
US births per year
Source: CDC NCHS, 2023 provisional
84%
of US maternal deaths are preventable
Source: CDC Maternal Mortality Review Committees
~3x
higher maternal mortality for non-Hispanic Black women
Source: CDC NCHS
~1 in 8
birthing people experience postpartum depression
Source: ACOG Committee Opinion 757
Thesis
Start at the hardest place. Build the architecture the rest of the market needs.
The US-Mexico border corridors force constraints that the rest of the country quietly has too: bilingual fluency, cross-system continuity, low-bandwidth UX, and Medicaid-first economics. A platform that works there ports up the demand curve.
Spanish-first by design
Half of our beachhead population thinks in Spanish. Building Spanish at parity from day one is a moat that retroactive translation cannot replicate.
Cross-border continuity
A consent-gated FHIR R4 export that travels with the patient is rare in the US. It is necessary at the border. It also matters for migrant agricultural communities, refugee populations, and cross-state care.
Voice-first inputs
Tired hands do not type. Voice on every form is faster for patients and clinicians both. The constraint at the border (literacy variance, language switching) made this required.
What we have built
Pre-launch, but not pre-product.
The platform is in active build. The list below is what is functional today, end-to-end, in the demo environment.
Patient PWA
Pregnancy through 12 months postpartum. Bilingual EN + ES. Voice on every form. Daily mood log, weekly content, validated screeners.
Validated screeners
PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT-C, EPDS, and the Materna 5Q. Self-harm escalation built in. Encouragement interstitials between questions.
Provider workspace
Risk panel, AI Scribe drafting, schedule, charting, prescriptions, referrals to a 14-specialty pre-credentialed network.
Care coordinator portal
Member panel, care gaps, SDOH closed loop, outreach log. NCQA-friendly export shape.
Payer dashboard
HEDIS PPC, PND, PPD, NTSV C-section, ED diversion, PMPM specifications. Refresh-date methodology page.
Cross-border FHIR R4 export
Consent-gated bundle that travels with the patient. Audit trail in both directions.
Business model
Three revenue paths. None depend on patient billing.
Patients are never charged. Provider tier and value-based-care arrangements pay for the platform. Cross-border continuity is a per-bundle revenue line that did not exist before.
Provider tier
Per-provider-per-month subscription for clinics, FQHCs, and hospital systems that adopt the patient PWA, Scribe, risk panel, and coordinator portal.
Value-based-care
Shared-savings agreements with managed-Medicaid and commercial payers tied to HEDIS PPC, PPD, NTSV, and ED-diversion improvements against a matched comparator.
Cross-border bundle
Per-bundle fee for verified, consent-gated cross-border FHIR R4 export events. A new line item for a real and growing patient population.
We will publish ARPU, contract counts, and shared-savings results once we have lived data. Until then, this page is a thesis and an architecture, not a sales sheet.
Leadership
The clinical credibility is real.
The founders are practicing clinicians on the corridor we are starting in. The advisor is a former chair of OB-GYN at a major hospital.
Charlotte Richards, M.D., FACOG
Founder & CEO
OB-GYN, 40+ years on the Arizona-Sonora border. CMO and OB-GYN Director at Regional Center for Border Health. Former Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's faculty. Mount Sinai fellowship.
Mandana Semnani, M.D.
Cofounder
Family medicine and pediatric surgery. Karolinska Institutet. ABFM board certified. Speaks 7 languages. Owns Bio Family Clinic and Glamour Medical Spa in Yuma.
Robert Brooks, M.D.
Chief Medical Advisor
Former Chairman of OB/GYN at Swedish Medical Center. UT Southwestern, mentored by Dr. Jack Pritchard, original author of Williams Obstetrics. ABOG board certified.
What we are asking for is a real conversation.
We are not in fundraising-process mode and we will not pretend to be. If you are a mission-aligned investor, healthcare operator, or strategic partner, we would rather meet first and decide later. We will share the data we have and the data we do not.
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