David Sarabia

Founder & CEO, inRecovery · 1 appearance on the record.

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Following early startup exits with UPrinting and eMobileCart, David Sarabia founded inRecovery in 2017 to modernize addiction care with data-driven clinical software inspired by his personal rehabilitation journey. He went on to establish ClinicaMind, an AI healthcare venture building clinical-grade digital twins and EHR integrations.

8statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.62/5average certainty → 1.88/5average debate potential →

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1 prediction · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how David argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Sarabia: Rehab centers are now mandated to track patient outcome data
“Now it's actually mandated that they have real trackable outcome data, and we're coming in at a time when they truly actually need it.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:34 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?

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Everything David Sarabia said on the Pitch that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sarabia spent 15 days undercover in rehab for product research
“So I was there 15 days.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 19:56 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?
Opinion
Sarabia: Addiction treatment relies on outdated, one-size-fits-all methods
“Right now, treatment tends to be a very one-size-fits-all approach. It's a very blanket approach in the treatment industry, and the science is a little bit old, and there hasn't really been much advancement in terms of the future of treatment.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:51 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sarabia: Fraudulent rehab centers won't survive beyond this year
“Those guys will be, they'll be gone. You know, insurance is cracking us so hard on that, that they'll be gone in the You know, in a couple months. I don't foresee them surviving beyond this year.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 23:32 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?
Assertion Supported
Sarabia: Rehab centers are now mandated to track patient outcome data
“Now it's actually mandated that they have real trackable outcome data, and we're coming in at a time when they truly actually need it.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:34 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?
Disclosure
InRecovery is running its first pilot with 200 patients in LA
“We're in pilot right now, so we have our first pilot where they're using it with a population of 200 people in LA.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 3:25 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?
Assertion Supported
Sarabia: Addiction treatment is a $39 billion industry
“They're having a real insight now into what this thirty nine billion dollar industry is all about.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:46 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?
Assertion Partly supported
Sarabia: One month in rehab averages $30,000 to $60,000 per patient
“Typically a patient's worth to a treatment center is about anywhere from 30,000 to 60,000 dollars on average, because that's the cost of treatment. That's about one month of treatment.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:52 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?
Disclosure
Sarabia: InRecovery has raised nearly $500k and targets $1.5M seed round
“So I've managed to raise almost that amount. We have so many VCs that are so interested in us right now that I think that we're gonna end up just securing a seed round, a proper seed round of 1.5.”
David Sarabia Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 25:18 #37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis?

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#37 Can Tech Solve America’s Drug Crisis? Mar 3, 2025 9m
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