Allia Health, a US-based healthtech startup, has closed a $2 million funding round with backing from prominent venture capitalist Tim Draper and other angel investors from Stanford Healthcare Innovation Labs. Co-founded by Pakistani entrepreneur Saroosh Khan, the company is preparing to expand its operations into Pakistan, where it sees significant opportunity to address mental health and digital care infrastructure challenges.
Tim Draper, known for investing in major technology firms including Tesla, Hotmail, and Baidu, has joined forces with other healthcare-focused investors to support Allia’s vision of making mental healthcare more precise and accessible. The startup is building tools that streamline the day-to-day workload of therapists and mental health professionals, offering features such as session notes, behavioral tracking, automated treatment planning, and telehealth—all from a single platform.
The company operates in the US market with a model focused on reducing the cognitive and administrative burden on clinicians. Saroosh Khan explains that Allia enables providers to deliver more effective, context-aware care by organizing fragmented data into a unified workflow. It also supports value-based care by allowing mental health professionals to form networks that can negotiate better insurance reimbursements based on patient outcomes. The platform is currently free for individual providers, with long-term revenue expected through partnerships with insurance companies and healthcare institutions.
Originally from Karachi, Khan studied at Cadet College Jhelum and later earned his degree from IBA on a full scholarship. His journey led him to co-found Allia Health with the aim of using technology to address persistent inefficiencies in mental healthcare systems. While its core development team already operates from Pakistan, the startup is now preparing to enter the country’s healthcare market more directly.
Allia plans to localize its platform and expand its engineering and research teams in Pakistan, starting with urban areas where mental health services are critically under-resourced. Khan points out two structural gaps in the Pakistani healthcare system that Allia aims to address: the absence of centralized medical records and the public’s lack of trust in telehealth services. In many cases, key patient history remains unshared across providers, complicating care coordination. Meanwhile, the concept of remote healthcare still faces skepticism, which Khan believes can be addressed through sustained awareness and improved user experiences.
The startup’s expansion is part of a broader strategy to bring precision-driven mental health care to both developed and emerging markets. With its recent funding, Allia plans to invest further in product development, grow its teams in Pakistan, and advance its efforts to build a data-informed, outcomes-based care infrastructure that works across borders. Khan believes that mental health platforms need to be equally effective in clinics in California and in urban centers like Karachi, and Allia is positioning itself to make that possible.
