mental health startups Archives - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/mental-health-startups/ Healthcare technology news, life science current events Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:51:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://medcitynews.com/uploads/2021/03/cropped-mblue-32x32.png mental health startups Archives - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/mental-health-startups/ 32 32 40682243 Cartwheel Snags $20M For School-based Mental Health Services https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/youth-mental-health-school/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/youth-mental-health-school/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:23:32 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=649977

Cartwheel, a startup that partners with school districts to provide virtual mental health services, raised $20 million in Series A funds. The company is working with about 50 school districts and charter school networks across Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Gen Z-Focused Mental Health Platform Founded by Stanford Psychologist Raises $6M https://medcitynews.com/2023/03/gen-z-focused-mental-health-platform-founded-by-stanford-psychologist-raises-6m/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/03/gen-z-focused-mental-health-platform-founded-by-stanford-psychologist-raises-6m/#respond Thu, 09 Mar 2023 23:30:32 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=626943

Wave Life — a mental health platform designed for Gen Z — recently closed a $6 million seed investment led by Santé Ventures. The company — which was founded by Sarah Adler, a clinical psychologist and clinical associate professor at Stanford’s psychiatry department — will use the funding to move further into the employer market and conduct research on its care model’s outcomes.

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Inside One Startup’s Effort to Make Mental Healthcare Progress Seem Less Subjective https://medcitynews.com/2023/01/inside-one-startups-effort-to-make-mental-healthcare-progress-seem-less-subjective/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/01/inside-one-startups-effort-to-make-mental-healthcare-progress-seem-less-subjective/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:44:50 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=622417

Less than 20% of behavioral healthcare providers collect data on how patients are progressing with their treatment. To buck this trend, Two Chairs is rolling out “mental health snapshots,” which are consistent summaries of patients’ well-being designed to offer real-time insight to both clinicians and clients.

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Lightfully Behavioral Health acquires 2 of 13 centers it plans to open in California in 2022 https://medcitynews.com/2022/02/lightfully-behavioral-health-acquires-2-of-13-centers-it-plans-to-open-in-california-in-2022/ https://medcitynews.com/2022/02/lightfully-behavioral-health-acquires-2-of-13-centers-it-plans-to-open-in-california-in-2022/#respond Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:33:06 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=571453

The Thousand Oaks, California-based company bought Resilience Treatment Center for Mental Health in West Los Angeles for an undisclosed sum and is now accepting patients at two centers it acquired through the purchase.

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Behavioral health startup Octave raises $11M, strikes deal with California insurer https://medcitynews.com/2019/10/behavioral-health-startup-octave-raises-11m-strikes-deal-with-california-insurer/ https://medcitynews.com/2019/10/behavioral-health-startup-octave-raises-11m-strikes-deal-with-california-insurer/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:58:45 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=470855

Octave Health matches patients with personalized behavioral health services, typically either in-person therapy or virtual coaching, and is among a new breed of digital health startups tackling mental health.

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