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Neolth
Techstars '20Walnut Creek, US · Founded 2018 · 17 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Neolth provides a self-guided, personalized mental health app for students, sold to schools alongside counselor and crisis-referral tools.
Also known as Neolth Inc.
Founders & leadership
Neolth was founded in 2018 by Katherine Grill.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Neolth is a digital mental health company that provides a self-guided mobile application delivering preventative mental health support to teens and young adults ages 11 and up. The app offers mental health education, coping skills, relaxation practices, stigma reduction and crisis monitoring, and pairs student-facing content with tools for educators and counselors, including crisis referral and analytics. The company describes its approach as spanning the youth mental health care continuum, emphasizing Tier 1 preventative support with escalation pathways to clinical care when risk is identified.
The product is built around what the company calls precision mental health: users complete a brief personalization survey and are matched with guided content based on the premise that neurodiversity means individuals respond differently to behavioral techniques such as mindfulness, creative art or guided imagery. Neolth states that it does not interface with medical or school records and collects only self-reported information, with students, parents and counselors controlling how much is shared; the company says it does not sell data to third parties and operates within HIPAA, FERPA and COPPA frameworks, with terms of service developed with counsel at Latham & Watkins.
Neolth reports platform co-development with 500-600+ students through a student advisory council and ambassador program, and publishes outcome claims including reduced stress after five logins (about 25 minutes of use), reduced stigma within three weeks, 30-day retention of 82.2%, and a satisfaction rating 31% above the reported adolescent app average. It also distributes a free "HealthTech Toolkit" for schools containing guidance and case studies.
Founding story
Neolth was founded by Katherine Grill and Lukas Grill. Katherine Grill began her career in psychiatric care as an art therapist, earned an MA in Psychology and a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience, conducted NIH-funded research with teens and young adults at Children's National Hospital, served as a university professor, and co-founded a community-based youth health program. Finding academia limited as a route to scaling health programs, she left her hospital role in 2017 and moved with Lukas to the Bay Area to explore digital health. Concluding that there were few neuroscience-informed, youth-oriented solutions on the market, the two combined her clinical and neuroscience background with his engineering and economics experience to form the company.
Business model
Neolth sells its mobile mental health platform primarily to institutions rather than individual consumers. Schools purchase the solution and make it available to students as a health and wellness service or as part of a mental health curriculum; the company also works with youth and healthcare organizations. Alongside the student-facing app, it provides educator and counselor tooling such as crisis referral and analytics features.
Revenue comes from institutional purchases of the platform, principally school contracts under which the app is provided to students as a wellness service or curriculum component.
Traction
Neolth reports platform co-development with over 600 students, 30-day retention of 82.2%, a satisfaction rating 31% higher than the reported adolescent app average, reduced student stress after five logins (about 25 minutes of use) and reduced stigma within three weeks. School administrators and teachers cited on the company site describe red-flag notifications enabling follow-up care and classroom use for stress management. The company says it has received more than 20 awards. Third-party sources estimate roughly 18 employees and annual revenue under $1M as of August 2026.
Latest developments
In July 2025 Highlyte announced a partnership with Neolth involving Kenny Thomas and the New Mexico Department of Health. Third-party directories in 2026 list Neolth as a private, operating company with roughly 18 employees and estimated annual revenue under $1M.
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Market position
Neolth is an early-stage, award-recognized participant in the youth and student digital mental health market. It has been named to CB Insights' Digital Health 150, won the World Economic Forum's UpLink Youth Mental Health Challenge (2022) with UNICEF and Salesforce, won Telosity's Mental Health Innovation Challenge and Loyola University's Public Health Innovation Challenge, was a West Coast winner of the Global EdTech Startup Awards, a Digital Health Awards quarterfinalist, a Timmy Awards Best Tech for Good finalist in 2021 and 2022, and was listed among Pepperdine University's Top 100 Most Fundable Companies. Third-party listings place it alongside larger digital mental health providers such as Lyra Health, Talkspace, Spring Health, BetterHelp, Calm, Big Health and Meru Health.
Neolth positions itself on neuroscience-informed matching of behavioral techniques to individual users, a preventative Tier 1 focus rather than crisis-only or therapy-based delivery, and youth co-design: the company states it was the first mental health app provider to create a Student Advisory Council and Student Ambassador Program, with 500-600+ students involved in development. It also emphasizes a privacy posture in which no medical or school records are integrated and no data is sold to third parties.
Technology
A self-guided mobile application that uses a brief personalization survey to match users with guided mental health content based on a neuroscience-informed 'precision mental health' model, plus 24/7 crisis monitoring that flags at-risk students and routes them toward care. The platform is HIPAA and FERPA compliant, does not integrate with medical or school records, and relies on self-reported user data. Its reported technology stack includes Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Wix, Wix eCommerce, Google Workspace, Cookiebot, Sentry and Tawk.to.
Go-to-market
The company sells mainly through schools, which purchase the app and deploy it to students; it also works with youth organizations and healthcare organizations. Marketing includes a free downloadable health-tech toolkit for schools with case studies and impact data, a student ambassador program, and visibility from pitch competitions and innovation challenges. Grill has noted Department of Education funding for school mental health mandates as a demand driver, and long procurement cycles in education and healthcare as a barrier.
K-12 and higher-education schools and districts, plus youth-serving and healthcare organizations, with end users being students, teens and young adults aged 11 and up; educators and school counselors use the accompanying referral and analytics tools.
Geography
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, with a primarily U.S. school and youth-organization customer base; a 2025 partnership involved the New Mexico Department of Health. A third-party directory describes staff distributed across North America, Asia and Europe.
History
Founder Katherine Grill left a role at Children's National Hospital in 2017 and moved to Silicon Valley to study the digital health field; Neolth was founded in 2018 and is based in Walnut Creek, California. The company built a student advisory council and student ambassador program early on, and reports co-development with 500-600+ students. It collaborated with the ComedyCures Foundation in 2022 on comedy-based self-care content for patients with advanced cancer, won the World Economic Forum UpLink Youth Mental Health Challenge in 2022, was named a winner of Telosity's Mental Health Innovation Challenge, and announced a 2025 partnership with Highlyte alongside the New Mexico Department of Health.
Risks & controversies
The business depends on students and institutions adopting self-guided digital mental health care, creating execution risk if engagement, retention or school procurement cycles do not scale. The founder has described education and healthcare as slow-moving sectors for technology adoption and noted the complexity of operating across overlapping privacy regimes (HIPAA, FERPA, COPPA and state-specific requirements). Reported revenue remains under $1M per third-party estimates.
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Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsHighlyte announced a partnership involving Neolth, Kenny Thomas and the New Mexico Department of Health.
Named a winner of the Telosity Mental Health Innovation Challenge; Neolth is listed among Telosity Ventures portfolio companies.
The ComedyCures Foundation collaborated with Neolth to assess whether using comedy in a self-care app can improve mental health in patients with advanced cancer.
Selected as a winner of the 2022 UpLink Youth Mental Health Challenge run by the World Economic Forum in partnership with UNICEF and Salesforce, which identified top international youth mental health solutions.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Neolth do?
- Neolth provides a self-guided, personalized mental health app for students, sold to schools alongside counselor and crisis-referral tools.
- Who founded Neolth?
- Neolth was founded by Katherine Grill in 2018.
- Who are Neolth's investors?
- Neolth's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Neolth headquartered?
- Neolth is headquartered in Walnut Creek, US.