psychiatry

A woman talking to a provider though a video chat on a tablet.
By  Emily Olsen 12:03 pm November 1, 2022
Options MD, a telehealth startup focused on severe depression, scooped up $2.35 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Bread & Butter Ventures. Others participating in the raise include M13, Bright Ventures and Collab Capital alongside returning investors MedMountain Ventures and Techstars.  The startup has also received $100,000 from the Google for Startups Latino Founders Fund. The...
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By  Emily Olsen 12:10 pm July 6, 2022
Teletherapy provider Sensible Care scored $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Volition Capital with participation from Skyline Investors. WHAT IT DOES Founded in 2017, the startup offers virtual therapy and psychiatry services for patients, including children and couples. Sensible Care also provides in-person transcranial magnetic stimulation, a therapy used for patients with...
A woman talking to a provider through a video call on her tablet
By  Emily Olsen 10:13 am April 14, 2022
Virtual mental healthcare provider Iris Telehealth scooped up $40 million in a Series B funding led by Concord Health Partners and Columbia Pacific Advisors. WHAT IT DOES Iris provides telepsychiatry services through partnerships with providers like health systems, hospitals and community health centers. The company can also help its provider clients triage patients who need more advanced mental...
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By  Emily Olsen 09:51 am December 14, 2021
Mental health startup UpLift announced Tuesday it had raised $8 million in a funding round led by B Capital Group. Additional investors participating in the round include Clover Health cofounder and CEO Vivek Garipalli, Cityblock Health cofounder and head of product Bay Gross, and Thyme Care president and former Flatiron Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Bobby Green, with others contributing pro...
By  Dave Muoio 04:20 pm August 23, 2018
Psychiatry has long stood as one of the more subjective areas of care, but new technologies and large-scale data generation and analysis may offer a more quantifiable approach to mental health treatment. In a recently published perspective, a group of Verily researchers and Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf called for the psychiatric field to embrace digital sensors and the data sciences...