Mental Health Startups

Kin operates an 8-week virtual intensive outpatient program (IOP) for teens ages 14-18, using licensed clinicians and small groups of 6-8 to treat anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and related mental health challenges. The program combines group and individual therapy delivered online, accepts insurance, and is designed to fit around school.

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KinCapsule builds a platform for preserving and sharing family stories, memories, and personal legacies. The product is framed around capturing family history before it is lost, motivated by the founders' own experiences with aging relatives.

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Kindly Human offers a peer support platform that connects employees with trained peers who share lived experience, aimed at improving well-being, retention, and engagement. It is sold to organizations as an employee benefit that integrates into existing workplace ecosystems.

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Kintsugi is an API-first platform that uses voice biomarkers in speech to detect and prioritize mental health signals in real time, integrating with call centers, telehealth systems, and remote patient monitoring apps. It also offers a consumer voice-based journaling app with cognitive behavioral therapy exercises and mood tracking to help people manage their mental wellness.

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Kismet Health builds human-centered AI telehealth technology to expand access to care for children and families, with a focus on pediatric behavioral health. The company combines clinical and technology expertise to improve care delivery for families facing logistical and financial barriers.

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Klarify is a mental health platform built by engineers, researchers, and designers who focus on therapy outcomes.

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Koko Cares partners with academic researchers to deploy evidence-based mental health interventions for young people across digital and clinical settings in the US. The organization collaborates with Northwestern University's Lab for Scalable Mental Health to deliver programs like Project YES through online platforms, clinics, schools, and health systems.

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ifeel is a European mental health platform serving enterprises and insurance companies, aimed at reducing the costs associated with employee and insured-population mental health. The company operates in the digital mental health and insurtech space.

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Kids on the Move (KOTM) is a non-profit that provides early intervention, autism treatment (including EIBI), childcare, respite, and family support services for children with developmental delays, disabilities, and special needs. It also supports the children's parents and caregivers with guidance and resources.

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Labayh is a mental wellness app offering remote psychological and family counseling through licensed specialists via chat, voice, and video sessions, along with therapeutic programs, psychometric assessments, and daily mood tracking. It also provides an employee mental health and wellbeing program for companies.

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LANGaware develops AI-based screening tools that analyze speech and voice biomarkers to help detect cognitive and mental health conditions such as mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and depression at early stages. Its platform generates decision-support reports for healthcare providers, payors, life sciences companies, and corporate wellness programs.

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Lansen Omsorg operates LSS group homes (gruppbostäder) providing supported housing, a personal living coach, daily activities, and around-the-clock staffing for adults aged 18 and older with Asperger's, autism, autism-like conditions, or intellectual disabilities, including those with additional psychiatric needs. The homes offer six apartments where residents can personalize their space and keep pets, with a free apartment available for visiting relatives.

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Layla connects people with licensed therapists, psychologists, and supervised trainees for online or in-person mental health therapy and psychological assessments. It offers matching to fit individual needs across a range of concerns, with services available in several Canadian provinces.

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Lean Medical operates a network of independent behavioral health clinicians organized into small, multidisciplinary practices offering therapy, psychiatry, and developmental care in California. The platform connects patients with licensed providers while handling credentialing, billing, and insurance coordination on behalf of clinicians.

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LEARN Behavioral is a collective of ABA (applied behavior analysis) therapy providers serving children and young adults diagnosed with autism and other special needs. Its programs build communication, social, and school-readiness skills, delivered at home, in the community, at Learning Centers, in schools, or via telehealth.

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Speek offers a digital, DBT-informed recovery programme for families of young people who self-harm, providing chat and group sessions with UK clinicians, guided content, and a peer support community. It serves parents and families, delivering behavioural and emotional tools and connecting them with specialists to support self-harm recovery.

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Mindstep is a digital mental health platform that provides assessments, self-guided care, live therapy, and real-time insights to organisations for supporting employee mental health. Founded by doctors, its tools are validated in peer-reviewed studies and regulated as a medical device, covering areas such as stress, burnout, ADHD, and cognitive health.

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Lief is an AI wearable that measures heart rate and breathing to track stress in real time via heart rate variability (HRV), and guides users through HRV biofeedback exercises to self-regulate their stress response. It offers a drug-free approach to managing stress and worry, supported by clinical psychologists, therapists, and health coaches, with optional live chat and video coaching sessions.

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Adapted Wellness offers personalized wellness services including adapted chair yoga classes and Rubenfeld Synergy Method somatic therapy sessions, delivered online and in person. It serves people over 60 and individuals with reduced mobility due to injury, surgery, chronic conditions, or aging.

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LifeSpeak is a SaaS-based holistic wellbeing platform that provides expert-led mental, physical, and family health resources through microlearning videos, live expert sessions, fitness content, and caregiving tools. It serves employers, health plans, and organizations, offering a product suite that includes mental health, parenting/caregiving, wellness, fitness, and substance-use solutions.

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Lionheart Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups building artificial intelligence and frontier mental health technologies. It backs founders working on transformative technologies such as AI safety, psychedelic medicine, and neuromodulation.

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Liv is a Dutch e-health platform that supports healthcare providers with patient guidance, monitoring, and progress tracking for mental health, lifestyle, and self-care. It offers digital tools such as validated questionnaires, exercises, and online contact for use between consultations, serving general practices and POH/POH-GGZ practitioners.

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ロゴスサイエンス(Logos Science) develops Wemental®, a mental health self-care app built on cognitive behavioral science methods. The company applies research in applied brain science and cognitive behavioral science to make self-care systems accessible to users and usable by physicians across specialties.

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Lotus Addiction offers addiction rehabilitation and mental health recovery programs, including inpatient care and personalized therapy using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy delivered through video materials and one-on-one counseling. The programs are based in Thailand and aimed at individuals seeking to overcome addiction and rebuild mental, emotional, and physical balance.

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