Village Raises $9.5 Million to Scale AI-Enabled Pediatric Care Network

New updates have been reported about Village.

Village has secured $9.5 million in funding, led by Upfront Ventures with participation from Bling Capital, GTMFund, and Perceptive Ventures, to expand its AI-powered pediatric care platform for children with developmental, behavioral, and mental health needs. The company positions itself as a modern specialty pediatric health system, coordinating entire care teams—occupational, speech, physical, and behavioral therapists, alongside pediatricians—around each child.

Operating out of Southern California, Village has built what it believes is the region’s largest coordinated network of independent pediatric specialists, now exceeding 400 providers and underpinned by contracts with major commercial insurers including Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare. Its in-house AI agents rapidly match families to complete care teams and support clinicians through Vera, a virtual operations assistant that automates documentation, scheduling, billing, and care coordination, which has helped drive a 5x increase in patients served and total platform users since the start of the year.

Founders Brandon Terry and Allan Smith, former leaders at Procore Technologies, are targeting the roughly 15 million U.S. children who face fragmented access to specialty pediatric services, with Village’s network growing virally as providers invite families and families invite providers. The new capital will fund a market-by-market rollout, deepening coverage across Southern California, expanding into additional California markets, and entering new states by leveraging national payer relationships and a standardized launch playbook refined in Los Angeles.

Investors frame Village as the first intelligent care platform purpose-built for the pediatric specialty journey, replacing disconnected waitlists and parent-managed coordination with a unified system that integrates care delivery and financial support. If Village can continue scaling its network density and insurer integration while maintaining outcomes, it could emerge as a key infrastructure player in specialty pediatrics, with implications for providers’ operating leverage, payer cost management, and families’ access to coordinated care.