Discover the top mental health startups and companies leveraging AI and emerging tech to transform mental health care in 2024.

The Omdena “AI Adoption Leaders Series” comprises game-changing startups, stories, and thought-leadership pieces from leading impact ventures solving real-world problems using AI.

Mental health startups and companies are making waves in the healthcare industry by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to create cutting-edge solutions for individuals and communities. With the growing demand for mental health services, these innovative startups are quickly becoming the go-to resource for those seeking to improve their mental well-being. 

How are AI and technology used in mental health?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used more and more in the mental health space. AI technologies are helping to improve the effectiveness of mental health treatment by providing clinicians with better insights, more accurate diagnoses, and earlier detection of mental health issues. AI-driven tools are also helping to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, by making mental health care more accessible and affordable.

Mental health challenges sparked during COVID-19 and the post-COVID-19 mental health epidemic have increased rapidly due to the loss of jobs, increased violence in society, and other socio-economic factors. The biggest mental health companies using artificial intelligence and other technologies are leading the way in providing better access and treatment to those affected. 

Their technology has helped many who otherwise would not be able to access or afford traditional therapy or counseling. Furthermore, these companies offer various apps and online sessions which can be accessed from anywhere, anytime, thus removing barriers to accessing appropriate mental health services and reducing the stigma associated with seeking such help. We expect these mental health startups to grow exponentially as technology advances and demand increases.

Top 34 Mental Health Startups and Companies

In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the top mental health startups that are utilizing artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to revolutionize mental health care.

1. Minded

Minded is an online mental health service that specializes in treating women. They provide expert treatment and medication management sensitive to the woman’s situation and experience, including all aspects of her life, body, and mind at every stage.

• Founder(s): Dr. Ashley White, Dr. Rufus Tony Spann, Kevin Dedner, Oliver L. Sims III, Oliver Sims, Shawn Scott
• Founding year: 2018
• Headquarters: Washington, District of Columbia
• Funding: Venture—Series Unknown

2. MediMusic

Music neuroscience solution MediMusic provides scientifically proven benefits of music to healthcare by dispensing music via our Digital Drip, which creates playlists dynamically to mimic the physiological response of the brain.

In this manner, they can create musical journeys for the listener that reduce stress/anxiety, improve the effectiveness of pain medication, reduce pain, enliven an individual, or keep a mood constant. For example, for medical centers, concierge medical is not expensive and easy to employ. Moreover, its health benefits have been statistically analyzed.

“We measure impact in terms of both patient-reported outcomes as a result of the use of MediMusic and the cost-benefit/ROI for the healthcare clinician. For example, It’s very rewarding when you see the anxiety often presented within Dementia dissipate, making the patient and their carers happier and improving the overall quality of life.”

• Founder(s): Gary Jones
• Founding year: 2019
• Headquarters: Hull, Kingston upon Hull, City of, United Kingdom
• Funding: Venture—Series Unknown

3. NUE Life Health

Through evidence-based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products, NU Life strives to enhance mental wellness. As part of its therapeutic ecosystem, NUE Life offers ketamine therapy, an interactive companion app, and virtual aftercare programs.

• Founder(s): Christina Getty, Demian Bellumio, Juan Cappello, Katie Kiernan, Kazi Hassan
• Founding year: 2021
• Headquarters: Miami, Florida
• Funding: Series A

4. Mindgram

Mindgram is a cutting-edge mental health and new well-being platform offered as an employee benefit by top employers. They help employees understand their mental health issues and connect them with top well-being experts, premium health providers, and quality self-development content.

• Founder(s): Adam Plona, Jakub Zieliński, Małgorzata Ohme
• Founding year: 2021
• Headquarters: Warszawa, Poland
• Funding: Series A

5. Sympatient

Sympatient is building a brand-new type of care provider for patients with anxiety disorders: the digital anxiety clinic. In their treatments, they provide the therapeutic gold standard, such as exposure therapy and CBT for anxiety disorders—digitally and in the comfort of patients’ homes.

The company brings the best of the digital and analog worlds together. Their digital therapeutics (DTx), like Invirto are always prescribed by medical professionals who can also answer individual questions and provide therapeutic guidance.

How does Sympatient define and measure impact?

“At Sympatient, our mission is to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those suffering from anxiety. That’s why we’ve set two key performance indicators to guide us: the effectiveness of our therapy, Invirto, in treating anxiety, and the number of people we’ve been able to help. By focusing on these metrics, we stay true to our commitment to improving the lives of as many anxiety patients as possible.”

• Founder(s): Benedikt Reinke, Christian Angern, Julian Angern
• Founding year: 2017
• Headquarters: Hamburg, Hamburg
• Funding: Series A

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6. Kintsugi

Kintsugi is on a mission to scale access to mental healthcare for all. They are developing novel voice biomarker software to detect signs of depression and anxiety from short clips of free-form speech. Awarded multiple distinctions for AI technology and recently named one of Forbes’ Top 50 AI companies to watch in 2022, Kintsugi helps to close mental health care gaps across risk-bearing health systems, ultimately saving time and lives.

• Founder(s): Grace Chang, Rima Seiilova-Olson
• Founding year: 2019
• Headquarters:  Berkeley, California
• Funding: Series A

7. Boulder Care

Boulder is a digital health platform, expanding access to effective treatment for opiate use. They aim to move the behavioral health industry forward by offering dramatically better experiences for patients and their care teams.

• Founder(s): Stephanie Strong
• Founding year: 2017
• Headquarters: Portland, Oregon
• Funding: Series B

8. HelloSelf

HelloSelf is a health and wellness platform that provides its users with digital access to therapists. HelloSelf works with patients to easily test the changes they can make to their life and measure their impact on the patient’s minds. Founder(s): Charles Wells

• Founding year: 2018
• Headquarters: London, England
• Funding: Series A

9. Little Otter

Little Otter is a pediatric mental health company that focuses on the mental health of young children and their families. Founded by a world-renowned child psychiatrist (and mother of four), Dr. Helen Egger, and entrepreneur Rebecca Egger, Little Otter’s mission is to bring expert care for children’s mental health to every home. 

Just like a pediatrician who cares for a child’s physical health, Little Otter cares for all aspects of a child’s mental health, along with their family’s mental health and wellbeing. Through proprietary assessments and quarterly mental health check-ups for each child and their family, Little Otter provides personalized, virtual care and an integrated care team to support healthy emotional development and treat emerging emotional and behavioral challenges.

• Founder(s): Blake Beers, Rebecca Egger, and Helen Egger MD
• Founding year: 2020
• Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
• Funding: Series A

10. uMore

uMore seeks to measure features of mental well-being and offers recommendations to the user where they would like to see improvements, furthermore, users can share their progress with loved ones, ensuring that closely-knit communities look after each other, even in times when physical contact is a challenge.

• Founder(s): Alejandro Serrano Saunders, Joel Stephano, Maria de Freitas
• Founding year: 2020
• Headquarters: Miami, Florida
• Funding: Pre-Seed

How does uMore define and measure impact?

“We define impact as the number of people on a psychotherapist’s waitlist (currently not receiving mental health care) that can gain access to care.

Since uMore automates the admin work that mental health practitioners need to do, we measure impact as the number of hours in the day we save psychotherapists and psychiatrists. Instead, the time usually spent on admin work (such as clinical note-taking and billing) can be used to see more patients. The more time saved, the more patients get support. When you see the long waitlists that mental health practices have, you realize why scaling a psychotherapist’s time is so important.”

11. Limbic

Limbic creates neuroscience of emotion packaged for developers. With just a few lines of code, anyone can make their app emotionally intelligent. Users can use the SDK to build products that interact with their users as naturally as interactions between two humans.

• Founder(s): Ross Harper, Sebastiaan de Vries
• Founding year: 2017
• Headquarters: London
• Funding: Series A

12. Parallel

Parallel is the first tech-forward provider of care for learning and thinking differences across the United States. They believe learning differences are parallel ways of thinking that should be celebrated. The brand’s mission is to provide students with the resources and encouragement to succeed in the classroom and beyond. 

• Founder(s): Diana Heldfond
• Founding year: 2021
• Headquarters: New York, US
• Funding: Series Unknown

13. Marigold Health

Marigold Health uses AI-augmented chat support groups to reach and retain patients with behavioral health needs in community-based treatment. Patients receive personalized wraparound support, while care teams see dramatic gains in capacity using patients to engage each other.

• Founder(s): Ravi Shah, Shrenik Jain
• Founding year: 2017
• Headquarters: Boston, MA
• Funding: Seed

14. Osmind

Osmind is a San Francisco–based public benefit corporation led by scientists, technologists, and psychiatrists to advance new evidence-based medicine that helps people living with moderate to severe mental health conditions.

• Founder(s): Jimmy Qian, Lucia Huang
• Founding year: 2020
• Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
• Funding: Series B

15. BrainSightAI

BrainSightAI is an MRI-based SaaS platform to enable greater precision in the neurological and psychiatric investigation. BrainSightAI helps patients shorten the path to recovery and good health by taking the leap from informed estimation to data-assured diagnosis and data-predicted prognosis.

• Founder(s): Dr. Rimjhim Agrawal, Laina Emmanuel
• Founding year: 2019
• Headquarters: Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India
• Funding: Non-equity Assistance

How does BrainSightAI define and measure impact?

At BrainSightAI, we generate functional maps of the brain using AI, ML, and 3D imaging for academics and clinicians. We moved away from a symptomatic way of looking at brain health and neurological conditions to a holistic view that includes their social, emotional, and economic well-being, digital phenotypes, and biomarkers. We measure impact by designing solutions for people with lived experiences of neurological, psychiatric, and psychological conditions while working ethically with data that users and doctors trust us with.

Internally, as a team, we measure impact by how diverse and inclusive we are. We are one of the few women-led deep tech companies in the world with 50:50 men: women ratio (and are building frameworks to be more inclusive as we grow), we are a remote-first company, are neurodivergent friendly where 20% of our team is on the spectrum; we ensure that work is designed for everyone’s needs. We meet in person every few months to imbibe cultural values from people that might be different from us.

We have a truly flexible leave policy that adapts to our team’s needs. We offer our team parental leave- for birth parents, caregivers, adoptive parents, and pet parents too. 

16. Flow Lab

Flow Lab is a training app for mental and emotional fitness that helps ambitious people achieve peak performance in their work life. Flow Lab is developing a digital flow coach in the user’s pocket that uses personalization, gamification, and immeasurability to provide the long-term motivation that is necessary to establish a regular mental fitness training routine.

• Founder(s): David Jacob, Jonas Vossler Winkelmann, Peter Schwarz
• Founding year: 2018
• Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
• Funding: Seed

17. Unobravo

Unobravo is a platform that matches people looking for psychological support with the therapist best suited to support them, facilitates the therapy journey via video calls, and helps therapists run their practices more efficiently.

Unobravo was founded in 2019. In July 2022 it counts more than 80.000 patients, more than 2.500 therapists, and more than 1.000.000 therapy sessions. Unobravo leads the Italian market and is scaling up the Spanish one (under the brand “Buencoco”).

• Founder(s): Danila De Stefano
• Founding year: 2019
• Headquarters: Napoli, Italy
• Funding: Series A

How does Unobravo define and measure impact?

Looking at the results, up to date Unobravo has been chosen by more than 70,000 patients. Great achievement is also confirmed on a daily basis by the popular Trustpilot platform, where 98 percent of the considered sample of patients give a rating higher than four stars and as many as 87 percent of the reviews call the service “outstanding,” with an overall rating of 4.8/5.

Unobravo has also used technology to enable even excellent therapists to have access to a broader audience of patients regardless of where they are or where they have decided to live; it allows them to work with more selected patients with respect to their orientation or target audience that they feel by vocation they want to focus on, as well as the fact that they do not have to seek patients on their own.

From a social point of view, since its founding, Unobravo has been committed to fighting the stigma associated with mental health issues and normalizing access to psychological support to be understood from a therapeutic perspective and as a way of cultivating mental well-being on a daily basis. For this reason, the company is constantly engaged in the development of awareness-raising initiatives aimed at approaching an increasingly wide audience. Precisely the first two events held in Milan last year, on the occasion of Mental Health Month in May and World Mental Health Day in October, saw great involvement and participation of more than a thousand people.

As proof of the company’s strong social commitment, in April 2022 Unobravo became a Benefit Corporation that combines the goal of profit with the purpose of creating a positive impact on society and the environment and which operates in a transparent, responsible, and sustainable way.

Unobravo also invests in the psychological well-being of employees and partners, as establishing a peaceful climate in the company is a must to ensure the stability and development of a healthy business and enterprise.

18. Tava Health

Tava Health improves emotional health through frictionless, technology-enabled care. Tava Health offers a mental health benefit for every employee because healthy minds matter.

• Founder(s): Dallen Allred, Jason Ockey, Spencer Gardner
• Founding year: 2019
• Headquarters: Salt Lake City, Utah, US
• Funding: Series A

19. Oliva

is proper mental healthcare for employers who want to make a real impact on both their teammates’ lives and their organization’s performance.

Combining a curated team of highly-qualified mental health professionals, personalized therapist matching by real humans, dedicated training & support for managers, and a hassle-free digital experience. 

Oliva is the UK & Europe’s first mental healthcare solution that truly covers a broad spectrum of employee mental health needs.

• Founder(s): Sançar Sahin and Javier Suarez
• Founding year: 2020
• Headquarters: London, UK
• Funding: Series Unknown

How does Oliva define and measure impact?

“Impact at Oliva comes in many forms— from clinical reliable improvement rate which scientifically proves people are getting better, to self-reported progress tracking and of course all of the wonderful comments and feedback we receive like “This platform saved my life.”

20. BlueSkeye AI

Founded in April 2019 as a spin-out company from the University of Nottingham, BlueSkeye AI was born out of the desire of its founders for their research to do real good and have an impact on our world.

• Founder(s): Prof Michel Valstar and Dr. Anthony Brown
• Founding year: 2019
• Headquarters: Nottingham, England. 
• Funding: Seed

How does BlueSkeye AI define and measure impact?

“Our technology uses machine learning models to code and analyze facial muscle actions and link them to emotion. This can help assess, diagnose, monitor, and treat medical conditions that alter expressive behavior, such as depression.

‘According to the World Health Organization,  WHO “rates of already-common conditions such as depression and anxiety went up by more than 25% in the first year of the pandemic, adding to the nearly one billion people who were already living with a mental disorder.’ At the same time, the ability to access treatment is limited either by cost and/or availability. Our technology represents an opportunity to address this significant need.”

21. Spill

Spill provides proactive mental health support to prevent, catch and treat poor mental health in your teams. Spill App is an app that makes all the benefits of talking therapy available to everyone, every day. It offers a massage-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being. 

• Founder(s): Calvin Benton, Gavin Dhesi
• Founding year: 2017
• Headquarters: London, England
• Funding: Seed

22. Rhithm

Rhithm is a wellness check-in tool. The platform selects an ideal 1-2 minute activity video to regulate well-being based on user-given data from a simple emoji assessment. This data is available on dashboards to reflect and connect with as desired at the campus, district/network, and state levels.

• Founder(s): Jake Gannon, Josh Knutson
• Founding year: 2019
• Headquarters: Fort Worth, Texas
• Funding: Seed

 23. Thrive Mental Wellbeing

Thrive: Mental Wellbeing is an app designed to empower users to look after their mental health. Founded by psychiatrists and psychologists with years of clinical experience, our app provides affordable, accessible tools to help business employees live happier, healthier lives.

• Founder(s): Andres Fonseca
• Founding year: 2019
• Headquarter(s): London, England
• Funding: Seed

24. Upheal

Mental health clinicians are now able to save time and increase their efficiency with the introduction of the first smart platform for mental health. This platform is powered by AI and provides clinicians with progress notes, secure video calling, and analytics. This platform is designed to help clinicians manage their workload and provide the best care possible to their patients. With the help of this platform, clinicians can now focus more on providing quality care and less on administrative tasks.

• Founder(s): Juraj Chrappa, Martin Horvath
• Founding year: 2021
• Headquarters: Middletown, Delaware, United States
• Funding: Pre-Seed

25. Iris Telehealth

Iris Telehealth is a leading provider of telepsychiatry services for community mental health centers, community health centers, hospitals, and health systems across the United States. 

They specialize in providing quality mental health care to those in need of such services, regardless of their location. Iris Telehealth is committed to providing the best possible care to its patients, and they strive to make its services as accessible and convenient as possible.

• Founder(s): Tarik Shaheen
• Founding year: 2013
• Headquarters: Middletown, Delaware, United States
• Funding: Series B

26. PsycApps 

PsycApps is a digital mental and emotional health platform that has developed its flagship game, eQuoo. This game is designed to help users improve their mental and emotional well-being through a series of interactive challenges and activities. The game is designed to be fun and engaging, while also providing users with a safe and secure environment to explore their mental and emotional health. 

PsycApps also provides users with access to a range of resources and support, including online counseling, educational material, and community forums. With its innovative approach to mental and emotional health, PsycApps is helping to revolutionize the way people approach and manage their mental and emotional well-being.

• Founder(s): Med Bukey, Silja Litvin
• Founding year: 2016
• Headquarters: London, England
• Funding: Seed

27. togetherAI

togetherAI is empowering families to have the right conversations about children’s emotions, well-being, and mental health at the right time. A personalized and artificial intelligence-powered Companion will help children and their parents navigate issues like anxiety, depression, anger, happiness, motivation, cyberbullying, online safety, and other key topics that surface during the growing-up journey.

• Founder(s): Josh Wilson
• Founding year: 2021
• Headquarters: Sydney, AU
• Funding: Seed

28. Psych Hub

Psych Hub was founded in 2018 to provide critically needed mental health information and resources for everyone, including individuals who need mental health support, the practitioners delivering it, and the organizations supporting them both. Psych Hub is committed to empowering people and organizations to create a better approach to mental health for themselves and others through connections to evidence-based education and care.

• Founder(s): Marjorie Morrison & Patrick Kennedy
• Founding year: 2018
• Headquarters: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Funding: Series A

29. Ellipsis Health

Ellipsis Health is an early-stage start-up developing affective computing for existing patient/care team interactions to create a real-time, behavioral health vital sign for each patient. It provides a simple, cost-effective way for health systems to continually screen their patient population for conditions such as depression and get patients the support they need.

• Founder(s): Dr. Michael Aratow, Mainul I, Mainul I Mondal, Susan Solinsky
• Founding year: 2017
• Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
• Funding: Series A

30. Mantra Health

Mantra Health is a digital mental health clinic dedicated to providing young people with improved access to mental healthcare. The brand’s mission is to provide clinical services, software, and design to help young people access the mental healthcare they require. Mantra strives to make mental health services more accessible and easier to use so that young people can get help in a timely and effective manner. The goal is to make mental health services more accessible and to reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health services. 

• Founder(s): Edouard Gaussen, Matt Kennedy, Ravi Shah
• Founding year: 2018
• Headquarters: New York, New York
• Funding: Series A

31. Wysa

Wysa is an AI-enabled Coach for mental and emotional wellness. Launched in 2017, the service provides early intervention to high-risk groups through 3 methods: an AI chatbot, a library of evidence-based self-help tools, and messaging-based support from human therapists. Anonymous, empathetic, and available 24×7, Wysa covers 10 million lives and has helped over 5 million people in 65+ countries through 500+ million conversations. 

• Founder(s): Jo Aggarwal, Ramakant Vempati
• Founding year: 2015
• Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
• Funding: Series B

32. Limbix

Limbix is passionate about delivering mental health treatment to young people who need it the most when they need it the most. The team is uniquely suited to develop prescription digital therapeutics, as they understand the value of pairing clinical expertise with technological innovation. Their diverse team of clinicians, product designers, researchers, and engineers are all focused on one thing: improving the lives of teens through accessible mental health treatment.

• Founder(s): Ben Lewis, Jonathan Sockell, Scott Satkin
• Founding year: 2016
• Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States
• Funding: Series B

33. Cognoa

Cognoa is a pediatric behavioral health company developing digital diagnostics and therapeutics to enable earlier and more equitable diagnosis and treatment of behavioral health conditions, starting with autism. They are dedicated to improving lifelong outcomes for children at risk for developmental delay and their families.

• Founder(s): Brent Vaughan, Dennis Wall
• Founding year: 2013
• Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States
• Funding: Series B

34. Apollo Neuro

Apollo Neuroscience is a wellness product not intended to treat psychiatric disorders such as but not limited to generalized anxiety disorder social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder apollo is not a substitute for professional medical care.

• Founder(s): Dr. David Rabin, Kathryn Fantauzzi
• Founding year: 2016
• Headquarters: Great Lakes, Northeastern US
• Funding: Series A

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