Category: Weekly Review

1. What are mental health apps doing w data?

2. Google Assistant invests in Wysa

3. More health tech in India

4. HelloSelf raises 5.5 GBP

5. Motherdom: mental health for new mothers

1. Mightier: 2M grant for video games to benefit children’s mental health

2. Emotional recognition, privacy, and China

3. ML and mental health diagnoses

4. Broadband internet for mental health

5. “Pioneering a new kind of insurance for businesses, YuLife actively reduces risk for the insurer through promoting and incentivizing healthy lifestyle change”

1. Symposium on mental health & psychedelics

2. Fitbit & Deepak Chopra

3. Frog Systems, Glasgow-based mental health startup

4. ML & mental health diagnosis

5. Health tech in Nepal

1. On AI and mental health

2. On AI and burnout

3. Italian startup Patch AI engages cancer patients on physical & mental health

4. Modern Health, on being a digital mental health “unicorn”

5. Ben-Gurion University: A quicker test for Clozapine levels

1. Concerns about wearables at work

2. Brazilian mental health startup Zenklub is expanding fast

3. Maya aims to increase women’s access to healthcare; testing in Sri Lanka, India, & Pakistan

4. People Matter proposes to be “Fitbit for mental health”

5. Flow Neuroscience acquires Halo Neuroscience

1. Moka.care raises 2.5 mil euro for “100 percent human solution”

2. Health trackers and eating disorders

3. Atlanta-based startup: app for treating alcohol use disorders

4. EmpowerU, website for mental health for high school students, and some other Minnesota-based ventures

5. Takalam: online counseling based in the UAE

1. The value of outsiders in health tech, with reference to Ginger

2. Progress on the neurological bases of arousal

3. Mental health and tech, in Malaysia

4. On Sentio, wearables, and mental health

5. 5M in funding for Hurdle: mental health platform emphasizing cultural humility

1. Mou and Insel on startups and meaningful innovation

2. “There are limits to how much heavy lifting an algorithm or a generalist should do when it comes to healthcare, and it appears that K Health wants to push those limits.” (TechCrunch on K Health, valuation 1.5b)

3. Notes on digital health at CES

4. Spill raises 2.2 mil euro; offers mental health support via Slack

5. Research project on mental health impact of rare diseases