Mental Health Startups

Sokya Health (operating as Headlight) provides mental health care including talk therapy, medication management/psychiatry, and Spravato (esketamine) sessions. Services are offered to individuals seeking mental health treatment, delivered in-person or virtually.

1 investor

Solace makes Seed, a pocket-sized hardware companion with an OLED display, microphones, and speaker that pairs with emotion-aware AI, long-term memory, and customizable personalities to provide daily emotional support, mood journaling, and mindfulness check-ins. The device offers micro-coaching, breathing cues, and guided reflection for individual users seeking everyday wellbeing support.

1 investor

Sophy Health develops multimodal AI agents for wellness platforms, mental health apps, and coaching services. The AI companions provide empathetic support, track behavioral patterns, and integrate across voice and chat channels.

1 investor

Soula is an AI companion app built specifically for women that provides emotional support and self-regulation tools, remembering a user's story, cycle, and moods to give personalized responses. It addresses stress, anxiety, sleep, life transitions, fertility worries, and relationship strain, drawing on techniques informed by neurology.

1 investor

Southern Pediatrics is a healthcare organization that operates a network of clinics providing pediatric and behavioral health care, combining pediatricians and behavioral health experts to focus on preventative care. It targets children in resource-limited areas, aiming to expand access to comprehensive pediatric care regardless of geographic location or socioeconomic status.

1 investor

Spectrum.Life provides a modular digital health platform delivering preventive, mental health and wellbeing services for insurers, employers, and educational institutions, including EAP and student assistance programmes. It serves large organisations across the UK, Ireland, and internationally.

1 investor

Spill provides workplace mental health support by letting employees book video therapy sessions through Slack, MS Teams, and web app integrations, and offers Safety Net, a survey tool that flags at-risk team members for outreach by counsellors. It sells to businesses, initially UK tech companies and later a wider range of industries and global clients.

1 investor

Oops is an online telemedicine platform in Japan that connects patients with doctors at partner medical institutions for video consultations and prescribes medications delivered to the patient. It covers areas such as AGA/hair loss, birth control pills, ED, allergies, skin conditions, sleep issues, and mental health, operating as self-pay (non-insurance) care ordered via LINE.

1 investor

Starbem provides a corporate mental health and wellness platform for companies, offering employees access to psychiatrists, psychologists, nutritionists, and AI-powered emotional support through a mobile app, while providing HR teams with compliance tools for Brazil's NR-1 psychosocial risk regulations.

1 investor

STOPit Solutions provides safety and wellness software for schools, workplaces, and communities, including anonymous incident reporting, crisis counseling access, emergency alerting, content monitoring, threat assessment case management, and social-emotional learning curriculum. It serves K-12 schools, districts, and organizations across the United States.

1 investor

Storia is a journaling app that uses guided prompts (check-in, gratitude, daily reflection) and an AI companion to help users process emotions and track their emotional wellbeing. It turns daily reflections into personalised insights on confidence, energy, stress, and behaviour for individuals seeking mental wellness through short daily rituals.

1 investor

Stresscoach is a self-help mobile app based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that helps people manage anxiety and stress. It offers a six-week behavioral therapy course delivered through conversation, along with meditation, breathing, and relaxation audio exercises for in-the-moment relief.

1 investor

StrongMinds is a nonprofit that treats depression using layperson-led interpersonal group therapy (IPT-G), providing free community-based mental health care to people in low-resource settings, with a focus on women and adolescents. It partners with governments and NGOs across African countries including Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania to integrate its model into existing programs.

1 investor

Summit BHC operates a nationwide network of freestanding acute psychiatric hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, and chemical dependency/substance use disorder treatment centers offering residential, inpatient, and outpatient care. The company runs 36 facilities across the United States serving people with mental health and addiction issues.

1 investor

Supportiv operates a peer-to-peer support platform that uses patented AI to match individuals into real-time, moderator-facilitated small group chats and surface personalized self-help resources for mental, emotional, social, and daily life struggles. It serves members and employees, offering on-demand emotional support and resource navigation as a lower-cost alternative to clinical care.

1 investor

Swanton Care is a national provider of residential care and support services for children, young people, and adults with complex needs, including autism, learning disabilities, and mental health issues. It offers tailored health and social care, including specialist nursing and rehabilitation, delivered in residential, supported accommodation, or independent living settings.

1 investor

Sway Health operates a virtual clinic in the U.S. specializing in bipolar disorder care, offering psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoeducation delivered by nurse practitioners trained in its own bipolar-specific protocols. Services are provided online and accepted through major insurance providers, Medicaid, and private pay.

1 investor

Inwords offers AI talk therapy through spoken conversations with an AI named Remy, guiding users through reflective questions for mindfulness and personal growth. It is a consumer mental wellness product focused on self-awareness and emotional well-being.

1 investor

Sympatient develops PsyOS®, an operating system for modern psychotherapy that combines patient access, practice operations, treatment pathways, digital tools, and structured data into one platform. It serves licensed therapists and patients within Germany's regulated healthcare and reimbursement system, aiming to make psychotherapeutic care more accessible and scalable.

1 investor

Syremis Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing neuropsychiatric medicines based on mechanisms including muscarinic M1/M4 agonism and NMDA antagonism. Its pipeline includes ST-905, a dual M1/M4 agonist in Phase 1 for schizophrenia, and ST-901, an NMDA antagonist in IND-enabling studies for major depressive disorder and bipolar depression.

1 investor

Tacklit is an end-to-end software platform for mental and behavioural healthcare service providers, covering the clinical, psychosocial, operational and financial aspects of care delivery, with AI capabilities built in. It is designed around mental-health workflows to help clinicians deliver personalised, outcome-driven care.

1 investor

Talked is an online therapy platform connecting people across Australia with AHPRA-registered psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists via chat, phone or video sessions. It handles Medicare rebates, private health insurance, WorkCover and NDIS claims, and provides AI-generated insights after each session.

1 investor

Third Space provides mental health therapy with a focus on continuity of care, measured symptom improvement using PHQ-9 and GAD-7 assessments, and Medicaid acceptance. It serves patients seeking ongoing treatment for depression and anxiety across the U.S. states it operates in.

1 investor

Ivy is a service that helps people find a therapist by arranging free 15-minute introductory phone calls with licensed, pre-screened therapists based on the client's stated preferences and availability. It focuses on letting clients try out several therapists before committing to in-person sessions.

1 investor