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🚀 Championing Youth Mental Health Innovation 🚀 Meet Erin Sietstra, Head of Investments at Hopelab, where she supports groundbreaking startups focused on youth mental health. 🌟 At Hopelab Ventures, Erin is revolutionizing the venture capital landscape by aligning investors, philanthropists, non-profits, and policy experts to create meaningful change. 🌟 Erin’s Journey 🌟 From studying biology at Harvard to discovering her passion at the crossroads of science and business, Erin's career took a pivotal turn at Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Now, as the leader of Hopelab Ventures, she is dedicated to empowering youth mental health startups to scale and thrive. 🔍 Key Takeaways: - The critical need to support diverse mental health solutions - Tackling the unique challenges faced by mental health startups - The role of regulatory changes in scaling health tech innovations - Effective strategies for scaling mental health ventures Dive into Erin’s insights on the future of mental health and the strategies driving innovation. #MentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #HealthTech #Startup #Innovation #VentureCapital #FemaleLeadership #Hopelab #MentalHealthMatters

Our Product Market Fit score at Earkick is currently at an all time high of 64.3%. According to Sean Ellis, a PMF score above 40% means you have Product Market Fit. This also show our consistent 5 star reviews from over 1,000 users and all the emails from users that find us every day telling us how valuable Earkick is for them. However, we don't stop there. We constantly iterate our product to deliver maximum value as long as there are people on this planet struggling with their mental health. #AI can help to make mental health support real-time, more accessible and more affordable. #productmarketfit #PMF #startups #mentalhealth Heini Zachariassen, Michael Sauter, Oliver J. A., Laurent Decrue, Thomas Dübendorfer, Nacho Andrade, Matthias Strodtkoetter, Ondrej Zak, Nicolas Sierro, Nick Barr

🚀 Celebrating our Companions and Mental Health Mission 🚀 The Companion launched at the height of the pandemic to provide a safe space for fans to connect when loneliness was at an all-time high. In October 2020, we ended the month with just 12 new members. This Sunday, a thousand companions came together to celebrate and embrace mental health as a fandom. 🎉 If you’d like to get involved with our startup and be part of our journey, let’s have a conversation. 🙏🏼 #Startup #Milestone #MentalHealth #TechForGood #HealthAndWellbeing #SeedFunding #Investment #EmployeeWellbeing #CorporateWellness #VentureCapital #AngelInvestors

There are a lot of HOT Impact Deals out there. 🔥 We’re launching "Beyond" to prove it! It's a new series shining a light on the biggest, boldest, and most exciting deals in the world of impact startups. First up – we’re diving into the #MentalHealth space 🧠  – because every positive change in the world starts from within. Here are five trailblazers leading the charge to bring much-needed balance and mental health support to the world: 1. Headway 2. Spring Health 3. Boulder Care 4. Glorify 5. Grow Therapy 🌟 Follow their journeys to get inspired and see how they’re shaping a more mindful future for us all.

Mental health company Spring Health, cofounded by CEO April Koh and Adam Chekroud, is now valued at $3.3 billion after raising a $100 million Series E round. The round was led by growth-stage firm Generation Investment Management, with participation from some existing investors including Kinnevik, the William K. Warren Foundation, RRE, and Northzone. Spring Health was last valued at $2.5 billion during a 2023 Series D round. The AI-powered mental health startup matches patients with care providers, selling to both health plans and employers. What the company calls “personalized mental health” separates Spring from competitors in the digital mental health space, it says; its founding eight years ago was predicated on a research paper that found that machine learning could match people with the best care for their needs. “We’re really excited that this is another big growth round in a world where that seems kind of rare,” Koh says. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d-fPU-4Q

⚡ OPPORTUNITY ALERT ⚡ 🚀 Are you ready to TRANSFORM mental and behavioral health care? The SEED SPOT Mental & Behavioral Health Impact Accelerator is here to help early-stage founders like YOU build solutions that break down barriers in mental health care. This is not just an accelerator – it’s an opportunity to: ✅ Refine your problem-solution fit and scale your impact ✅ Build a business model designed to tackle stigma, access, and quality ✅ Gain mentorship and coaching from industry experts ✅ Connect with a national network of like-minded entrepreneurs Whether you're developing a maternal mental health app, creating group treatments for serious mental illness, or launching a tech solution to expand care access, this program is your springboard to success. 📅 Applications close January 6, 2025. Priority deadline: December 6, 2024 (This Friday!!) 💡 Don’t just take our word for it—alumni like Pamela Wirth of Hello Health and Jessica Voss of EmpoweRanch are transforming lives. 🔗 Learn more and apply now: https://bit.ly/3A9xd7e 🌟 Let’s make mental and behavioral health care more equitable, innovative, and impactful. SHARING IS CARING 💚 #MentalHealth #BehavioralHealth #Entrepreneurship #Innovation cc Miranda Williamson

Unleashing the Power of Data in Health: Meet Measurme + Improving! 🚀 Measurme, in partnership with the innovative minds at Improving, is revolutionizing mental health care. Their platform leverages psychometric data to empower therapists with the tools they need to provide personalized, data-driven care. Experience this game-changing approach at #CodeLaunchCAN next week at El Mocambo in Toronto! 🚀 #MentalHealthTech #Theraphists #StartupEcosystem #Toronto #startups

We made it to the regional final in the Startup World Cup! Looking forward to present how we increase the effectiveness of mental healthcare at Startup Extreme and why it's important to invest more in solving society's biggest health problem 🙏 #mentalhealth #startup

Mental health should be spoken about every day, not just today, on #WorldMentalHealthDay 🧠 That’s why within The Virgin StartUp Community we're proud to partner with Self Space, offering our community access to affordable 1-1 mental maintenance sessions. Self Space are really on a mission to debunk the stigma and make mental health support more accessible, by featuring on the high street. At Virgin StartUp, we had the pleasure of hearing from founder Chance Marshall who shared his journey of building a startup dedicated to improving others' well-being. If you’re looking for a mental break today, tune into his story on our podcast—it’s 45 minutes well spent. (popping the link below). It was also great to chat to the team at #ANDYSMANCLUB this week to hear more about the incredible support they offer all across the UK. If you don't know much about what they do, ANDYSMANCLUB run peer-to-peer support groups for men over 18 going through storms in their lives, every Monday at 7pm excluding bank holidays. Groups are free to attend with no registration required. With over 200 locations nationwide, they're really on a mission to support as many men as possible 🙌 There are some incredible support networks out there; it’s just a matter of knowing where to look. Being a founder can feel pretty isolating sometimes, with the focus always on the business rather than on yourself. Hopefully, the resources mentioned above can help ease things a bit for some of my network this week. And, if you’re looking for a community that truly understands the ups and downs of founder life, you know where to find us ❤️.

Founders Village was 🔥 Angel Gambino from Angel Club dropped gems from the VC perspective: “Investors that take too much of your time can derail your vision. The key? Be responsive, not invasive.” Some takeaways that hit hard: 1. Master the art of being annoying (follow ups without overstepping) think productive persistence. 2. A simple “Can I circle back in a couple of weeks?” can work wonders. 3. Founder Mental Health: it’s a wild ride ups, downs, and a lot of solo moments. And it wasn’t just Angel. Leonardo Rocchetti from Plug and Play Tech Center brought even more energy to the table. The atmosphere at Founders Village #TechWeekend was all about inclusion, insights, and leveling up. Biggest takeaway? We need to have way more conversations about the real struggles founders face. #FoundersLife #VCInsights #MentalHealth