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Temasek’s Sheares Healthcare backs Asia-focused mental health startup...
Southeast Asia’s mental health startups are getting more investor attention. Last week, Intellect announced a strategic investment from IHH Healthcare, Asia’s largest private healthcare group. Now...
View ArticleAlcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data...
For years, online alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest were sharing with advertisers the personal information and health data of their patients without their consent. Monument, which acquired...
View ArticleFounders shouldn’t have to choose between mental health and grit
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where today we’re niching down to...
View ArticleCapital crunch shines a light on the importance of founders’ mental health,...
In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as...
View ArticleAmerican psychology group issues recommendations for kids’ social media use
One of the most prominent mental health organizations in the U.S. is out with a set of guidelines designed to protect children from the potential harms of social media. The American Psychological...
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11 investors predict a colorful, if difficult, future for psychedelic startups
How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months? Well, it depends on where you look. If you look at the stock market, the view isn’t very good: The charts are all down and...
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Apple commits to mental health with tracking on Watch and iPhone
For those of us struggling with mental health, Apple has had an obvious gap in its lineup: mood tracking and figuring out what the correlation is between your depression and anxiety and other metrics,...
View ArticleTikTok is where young LGBTQ people of color feel the safest online
While the relationship between all young people and social media is complex, yielding both positive social effects and posing unique risks to mental health, queer teens spend even more time on the...
View ArticleDial up a therapist like an Uber? Wangie aims at Gen Zers and the time-poor
It would be fair to say there’s no global solution for instant 24/7 access to mental health support. Yes, there are a few “marketplaces” where you can schedule a call with a therapist in advance....
View ArticleHow Pilea helps founders break down stigma around mental health
Startup founders believe so strongly that something is wrong in the world that they can will an entirely parallel dimension into being: A world that is different from the world we are in today. From...
View ArticleTeale, your mental health companion at work, raises $11 million
French startup Teale has secured a funding round of $11 million earlier this summer (€10 million). The company provides a mental health platform for employees and helps HR managers when it comes to...
View ArticleThe perils of the platforms of paranoia
Nextdoor has become ground zero for the spread of many rumors, hoaxes and unfounded allegations.
View ArticleBeing is an app that wants to help users map out and address mental health...
Being, a Delaware-based startup, is on a mission to scale its mental health app, which aims to help users create a map of their concerns to better navigate their everyday issues. The company, which...
View ArticleYouTube’s new teen safeguards limit repeated viewing of some video topics and...
Two years after testifying before the U.S. Senate over child safety concerns, including teens’ exposure to eating disorder content, YouTube today announced additional product safeguards around its...
View ArticleCallyope monitors mental health through speech-based technology
French startup Callyope isn’t your average startup as it is addressing a very hard problem in a highly regulated industry. The startup is building a remote patient monitoring platform for people living...
View ArticleOxford study says internet use doesn’t harm mental health, but its research...
In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm. Professors...
View ArticleInstagram’s new ‘nighttime nudges’ aim to reduce teens’ time on the app
Instagram is introducing new nighttime nudges for teen accounts to limit their time on the app, the company announced on Thursday. The new nighttime nudges will appear when teens have spent more than...
View ArticleSnapchat turns off controversial ‘Solar System’ feature by default after bad...
Less than a week after The Wall St. Journal reported on how a Snapchat feature dubbed “solar system” was adding to teens’ anxiety, the company has responded by adjusting how the feature works. The...
View ArticleTwo Chairs raises $72M Series C in equity and debt to scale its therapist...
When Alex Katz founded Two Chairs in 2017, he firmly believed that in-person therapy is the most effective for behavioral health. Two Chairs used technology — a proprietary matching algorithm — to find...
View ArticleClarity Pediatrics raises $10M for treating ADHD and other chronic childhood...
Raising young kids who have been diagnosed with, or are suspected of having, ADHD can be challenging. Some children with this condition may have difficulties completing school work or grow easily...
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