As mental health continues to take center stage in healthcare innovation, a new wave of startups are leveraging technology to make mental health support more accessible, efficient, and effective. TherapyStack has identified ten groundbreaking companies that are set to make a significant impact in 2025. These startups are pioneering novel approaches to mental healthcare delivery, from AI-powered tools to specialized treatment platforms. You can find all of the startups listed below on TherapyStack!
1. Equip: Reimagining Eating Disorder Treatment
Today, over 9% of the United States population, or 28.8 million people struggle with an eating disorder. While anorexia nervosa is ranked the psychiatric disorder with the highest mortality rate, only increasing in the age of social media, treatment has stayed stagnant and inaccessible. Equip is set to solve this problem, providing virtual, evidence-based treatment for eating disorders, focusing on family-based treatment (FBT). Equip’s patients receive care from a five-person team (therapist, dietitian, medical provider, peer mentor, and family mentor), fostering comprehensive, long-term recovery. Equip raised a $35 million series C fund in April 2024, led by Optum Ventures, Tiger Global, and General Catalyst.
2. Tia: Redefining Women’s Health
Tia provides integrated health services focusing on women's health, offering teletherapy, acupuncture, and mental health screenings. While the women’s health market has grown to $43.24 billion in 2024, most of the market is focused primarily on physical health. By creating a comprehensive care plan that combines mental and physical care, specifically tailored for women, Tia Health is at the forefront of a new era for women’s health.
3. Upheal: Streamlining Mental Healthcare Administration
Upheal is tackling mental healthcare’s most pressing issue: administrative burden. Their AI-powered digital tools automate time-consuming tasks like progress notes, allowing mental health professionals to spend more time on what matters- patient care. Just last month the Upheal team raised a $10 million series A back and has already secured multiple partnerships with notable players in the space including Alma, Noble Health, and Cartwheel Care, proving their traction.
4. Slingshot AI: Enhancing Therapy Through Artificial Intelligence
Slingshot AI is developing advanced AI models to enhance mental health care for providers and consumers. Through innovative implementations of AI technology, they create tools that help providers deliver more effective therapy and support, improving patient outcomes. The company recently raised a $30 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz in August, demonstrating strong market confidence in their approach. The team plans to use the funds to expand its operations and accelerate the development of its AI-powered mental health solutions.
5. Manatee: Family-Centered Mental Health Support
Manatee offers virtual mental health services for children and families, combining personalized therapy and parent coaching. Their family-focused approach addresses the mental health needs of children and their parents, producing impressive results: symptom reduction of 87% in only 6 weeks and exceptional patient engagement levels of 98%. Manatee recently raised $5 million in June, demonstrating investors' confidence to bridge child and parent mental health support.
6. Ellipsis Health: Pioneering Voice-Based Mental Health Assessments
Ellipsis Health is developing the first-of-its-kind vocal biomarkers, enabling real-time early identification of mental illness. Early identification and thus intervention of mental illness has been proven to significantly reduce symptoms. They use AI-driven technology with vocal biomarkers to measure, monitor, and assess depression, anxiety, and stress.
7. Finni Health: Specialized Support for Autism
Finni Health specializes in bringing Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy into the home environment. Their comprehensive approach supports families from diagnosis through treatment, offering specialized services including play therapy and parent training for children with autism and developmental delays. They recently raised an undisclosed series A, led by Forum Ventures in March.
8. Flourish Labs: Expanding Access to Peer-Led Mental Health Support
Flourish Labs focuses on expanding access to mental health care through peer support services and digital health tools, training young adults to provide professional peer support for young adults facing mental health challenges. What sets Flourish Labs apart is their innovative two-sided solution simultaneously addressing the mental health crisis by supporting those in need while expanding the mental health workforce through their Peer Support Specialist Program. This unique approach to tackling supply and demand in the mental health space represents a new model in the startup ecosystem.
9. Therify: Transforming Workplace Mental Health
Therify focuses on providing mental health services for employees through custom networks of in-network therapists, coaches, and wellness programs to improve employee well-being and reduce healthcare costs. They make it easy for companies to design, implement, and analyze wellness systems, ultimately leading to 4x employee engagement and 92% improved mental health outcomes.
10. Parallel: Virtual Solutions for Learning Differences
Parallel Learning specializes in providing teletherapy and educational services to students with learning differences. They offer behavioral therapy, speech-language therapy, and academic tutoring, all delivered virtually. By combining specialty services in one platform, Parallel ensures that students with learning differences receive comprehensive support through a single, accessible model.
Whether you are a provider, investor, or someone passionate about the mental health landscape, these 10 startups are revolutionizing care delivery and improving patient outcomes, creating a more equitable and efficient healthcare landscape.
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