Mental Health Startups

Elin is a mobile app marketed as a "cognitive antivirus" that protects users' attention and mental well-being from addictive social media algorithms, offering tools like a digital resilience course, psychological tests, mood tracking, social feed scoring, and a non-toxic AI support chat. It targets individuals — including teenagers and their parents — seeking to reduce doomscrolling, FOMO, and digital overload.

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eLuma provides credentialed special education and behavioral health providers to K-12 school districts, delivering services such as speech-language therapy, school psychology, counseling, and specialized instruction for IEP and 504 requirements. It offers virtual, hybrid, or on-site delivery to help districts maintain compliance and prevent service gaps amid staffing shortages.

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eMindful offers scientifically-backed mindfulness programs led by expert instructors to help users reduce stress, improve mood, and sleep better, applicable in both workplace and everyday settings. It also donates a minute of mindfulness to a chosen charity for each minute users practice.

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emol develops a mobile app that delivers self-help cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) through an AI character named "Roku," aimed at preventing and treating mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. The company targets consumers seeking accessible mental healthcare and is working toward a therapeutic app for treating psychiatric conditions.

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Emora Health is an online mental health platform offering age-specialized therapy, psychiatric medication management, and ADHD/autism testing for children, teens, and adults, with a coordinated care-team model. It matches families with vetted licensed clinicians, accepts insurance, and integrates therapy, medication, and evaluations in one place.

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Empower Community Care distributes evidence-based behavioral health and education programs and technologies—including therapy interventions, mental health assessments, cognitive-behavioral tools, and eLearning courses—for youth, adults, and families. It serves criminal and juvenile justice agencies, child welfare and foster care systems, mental and behavioral health organizations, and educators supporting vulnerable populations.

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EmpowerU provides online social-emotional learning curriculum and 1:1 coaching for K-12 and college students, delivered through Tier 1 and Tier 2 programs that integrate with schools' multi-tiered systems of support. It sells site-based licenses to schools and colleges to build student resilience, motivation, and mental well-being.

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Bloom was a mental health app, acquired by Spring Health in February 2024, with the app scheduled to discontinue on February 23, 2025.

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Fundación INTRAS is a mental health and social care organization that provides psychotherapy clinics, memory care centers for cognitive decline, and community-based interventions to support people with disabilities and mental health needs. The foundation works across Spain, particularly in Castilla y León, offering neuropsychological rehabilitation, employment support, and programs promoting independent living and personal autonomy.

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Enterapia is an online mental health platform offering therapy with licensed psychologists through video sessions (Videoterapia) and text-based chat sessions (Chaterapia). It serves individuals seeking remote psychological support across multiple cities and countries in Spanish-speaking markets.

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ERP Health provides software for behavioral health facilities and providers, offering operational tools, patient engagement features, and real-time outcome data. Its platform supports treatment for people dealing with mental health and addiction conditions.

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Esaal is an online platform, founded in 2018, that connects users with verified professional experts for consultations on physical and mental health topics via text chat or video sessions. It serves individuals seeking health advice and targets the Middle East and North Africa region.

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Evecxia Therapeutics develops 5-HTP-based drugs using proprietary drug delivery technologies designed to increase brain serotonin production as adjunctive treatments for depression and other mental disorders. Its therapies target patients with disabling mental illness not adequately treated by existing antidepressants such as SSRIs and SNRIs.

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Eventus WholeHealth provides in-person primary care and behavioral health services, including psychiatry and psychology, for medically vulnerable adults living in long-term care settings such as assisted living, skilled nursing, and independent living communities. It organizes clinicians into collaborative care teams to deliver integrated, customized care plans aimed at improving outcomes and reducing hospital readmissions and ED visits.

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eB2 uses artificial intelligence to transform behavioral data collected from smartphones and digital devices in daily life into digital biomarkers for understanding mental health and behavior. The company serves mental health professionals and researchers with two platforms: one for continuous patient monitoring and clinical decision support, and another for academic and clinical research.

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Faino offers a Telegram-based antistress bot that guides users through simple daily psychological exercises to help manage stress and grief. Created by psychologists and IT specialists, it provides mental health self-help support, with content aimed at Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking users.

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Family Haven is a nonprofit providing child abuse and trauma prevention and treatment services to families in the Utah Valley area, including a free 24/7 nursery for children, parenting classes, prevention education in schools, and therapy. It serves individuals and families across Utah, Wasatch, Summit, Millard, and Juab counties in Utah.

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FasPsych is a telepsychiatry network that connects organizations with licensed psychiatry professionals to deliver virtual behavioral health care through a HIPAA-compliant video platform. It serves care settings including inpatient, outpatient, rural, and tribal communities across the United States, treating children, adolescents, and adults with flexible pay-by-use models.

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Feel collects physiological, clinical, and digital data from wearables, apps, and clinician dashboards, and uses proprietary algorithms to derive mental health markers such as mood, stress, sleep, and cognitive functioning. It integrates these measures into personalized digital therapeutic programs delivering real-time interventions for patients with various mental health conditions.

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Fettle is an online mental health concierge service that connects people with accredited therapists and psychologists, offering appointments within 24 hours. It conducts an initial needs consultation to guide clients toward a suitable clinical or therapeutic pathway based on their budget.

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Field Trip provides in-person mental health treatments including ketamine programs, Stellate Ganglion Block (Dual Sympathetic Reset) protocols, and FDA-approved transcranial magnetic stimulation for conditions such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and long COVID. It operates trauma-informed clinics at over 20 locations across the U.S., in partnership with Stella.

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Firefly Immersive builds The Sanctuary, a modular immersive (VR) therapeutic platform delivering science-backed content and biofeedback for behavioral health conditions such as stress and anxiety, substance use disorders, sleep disorders, and resilience training. It serves behavioral health practices and healthcare providers across the pre-treatment, active treatment, and post-treatment care continuum.

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First Stop Health provides virtual healthcare to employees through their employers, offering primary care, urgent care, and mental health services along with dietitians and health coaches. Care is delivered via web and mobile app at no cost to members and their dependents.

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Flourish is a wellness and self-therapy mobile app that helps users care for their mental well-being, manage procrastination, and build daily self-care routines. It offers guided support (including a feature/companion called Sunnie) aimed at individuals seeking on-demand emotional support and productivity help.

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