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| Oct 14, 2026 | Allswell Raises $7 Million Seed Led By Rethink Impact To Expand LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Platform | Allswell has raised $7 million in seed funding to expand its insurance-covered behavioral health platform for the LGBTQ+ community and continue building toward a broader medical home model. The round was led by Rethink Impact, with particip... |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Teens Named AI Sycophancy as Mental Health Risk Before Any Regulation Did | By Kyle Belmonte
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| Nov 24, 2025 | Nest Health: $22.5 Million Series A Raised To Advance Nationwide Expansion Of Whole-Family Medicaid Care | Nest Health has closed its Series A funding round at more than $22.5 million as the Louisiana-based provider of whole-family Medicaid care positions itself for its next stage of product development and multistate growth. The company, which ... |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Young Futures Launches 'YF500,' A First-of-Its-Kind Philanthropic Index Fund for Youth Wellbeing in a Digital Age | Young Futures Launches ‘YF500,’ A First-of-Its-Kind Philanthropic Index Fund for Youth Wellbeing in a Digital Age
New $50 Million Initiative Aims to Build a Thriving Ecosystem of 500 Nonprofit Leaders to Support 40 Million Young People
New ... |
| May 17, 2025 | Nvidia CEO: If I were a student today, here’s how I’d use AI to do my job better—it ‘doesn’t matter’ the profession | If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were a student again, he’d take advantage of generative AI to have a successful career.
“The first thing I would do is to learn AI,” Huang said in a January episode of the “Huge Conversations” show with Cleo Abram... |
| Mar 1, 2025 | The Double-Edged Sword of AI: Navigating the New Frontier of Teen Interaction | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new frontier, a digital landscape where teenagers roam freely, seeking companionship, advice, and sometimes solace. But this brave new world is not without its shadows. As AI chatbots become increasingly ... |
| Feb 28, 2025 | Mark Cuban: If I were 12 again, I’d do these 2 things to set myself up for success—they ‘can help no matter who you are’ | If Mark Cuban were a kid again, he’d do two simple things to set himself up for success as an adult, he says.
“When I talk to kids today and they ask me what I would do if I were 12 today, my answer is always the same, read books and learn ... |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Rock Health: mental health startups aimed at young people getting bigger piece of the pie | The company launched the Digital Youth Mental Health Initiative earlier this year
Roughly 1 in 6 children aged 6 to 17 in the U.S. experiences a mental health disorder each year, while worldwide 20% of children may have a mental health cond... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | InStride Health: A Beacon of Hope for Pediatric Mental Health | InStride Health, a beacon of hope for pediatric mental health, recently secured $30M in Series B funding to expand access to high-quality, evidence-based care for children and adolescents struggling with anxiety and OCD. Led by CEO John Voi... |
| Mar 27, 2024 | InStride Health Secures $30M to Expand Access to Pediatric Mental Healthcare | What You Should Know:
– InStride Health, a leader in outpatient treatment for childhood anxiety and OCD closes oversubscribed $30M Series B funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from existing investors .406 Ventures, Valt... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Nod – Mental Health for Students by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
Today’s youth spend all day on their smartphones, teenagers don’t know how to socializ... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Top digital health VCs are investing heavily in technologies that address our emotional well-being | #InventHealth Behavioral & Mental Health 2019 @ UCSF
Editor's note: Future of Clinics is on June 27. Register now!
Vator and UCSF Health Hub held the first salon of 2019 called The Future of Mental and Behavioral Health, where VCs, inno... |
| Apr 17, 2019 | M&A in mental health: why is it happening and is it good for the space? | Companies like Joyable, Lantern and myStrength have all been acquired in recent months
During Vator and UCSF Health Hub's first salon of 2019, called The Future of Mental and Behavioral Health, VCs, innovators and adopters (payers/providers... |
| Apr 10, 2019 | Giving out 'dangerous medications' like 'candy' aggravates the mental health crisis | At Invent Health, investors say it's scandalous to abuse citizens by pushing pharma-therapy
Last week, Vator and UCSF Health Hub held our first salon of 2019 called The Future of Mental and Behavioral Health, where VCs, innovators and adopt... |
| Aug 23, 2018 | How can social media impact behavioral health of teens, young adults for better and for worse? | — Lyrics from “I’m 18” by Alice Cooper
Very recently, two of my favorite people, Margaret Laws and Susannah Fox, together with Victoria Rideout and others, released a significant new study about teens/young adults and their use of the inter... |
| Apr 13, 2016 | Day 2: INVEST 2016, live from Chicago | healthbox: the speed at which this whole industry is moving is incredbile, and the volumes of info are more than any one physician, health system can digest. it’s incredibly thoughtful integration of all these inputs.
1:40 PM:
Watch MedHead... |
| Oct 20, 2015 | Welltok buys kids' activity tracking system Zamzee to build out CafeWell | Denver, Colorado-based health management company Welltok, which makes the CafeWell Health Optimization Platform, has acquired kids' activity tracking platform Zamzee, which formerly spun out of Redwood City, California-based nonprofit HopeL... |
| Jul 30, 2015 | Morning Read: CVS and IBM partner to predict deteriorating health, GE Healthcare investing $1B in healthcare provider education | GE Healthcare said it is investing $1 billion in healthcare provider education and training over the next 5 years.
GE Healthcare said the enhanced training will reach more than 2 million healthcare professionals by 2020 and help more than 3... |
| May 14, 2014 | Oculus + Kinect + Novo Nordisk = A diabetes education game set in a virtual patient’s body | It was unveiled in March at the Diabetes UK conference and for now is being demoed to healthcare professionals at conferences. But emotive said there has been discussion about the potential of the technology to engage younger, perhaps apath... |
| Aug 28, 2013 | Cigna’s healthcare gaming mission: Take a “cancer-fighting” game app global | Since 2007, Cigna has distributed the game for free to doctors and facilities that treat young people with cancer.
“The more we looked at it, the more we found it an impressive way to break through with teenagers to understand their cancer ... |
| Apr 28, 2013 | Re-Mission 2 games reimagine how to help kids survive cancer | HopeLab is taking a blast at cancer with the relaunch of its titles that help kids deal with having cancer. More than five years in the making, Re-Mission 2 consists of six free-to-play online minigames launching tomorrow with a host of sup... |
| Apr 28, 2013 | Re-Mission 2 games reimagine how to help kids survive cancer | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
HopeLab is taking a blast at cancer with the relaunch of its titles that help kids deal with having cancer. More than five years in the... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Jumps, skips & steps add up to medals & virtual high-fives with this activity tracking game for kids | With some bootstrapped and friends and family money and a spot in Carolina Launch Pad’s incubator, Sqord was born, and by the summer of 2011 it was ready for its first pilot.
The startup is going after a market of 8 to 13-year-olds, althoug... |
| Dec 8, 2012 | Gamification Can Work — Just Don’t Hire A Game Designer | Editor’s note: Rajat Paharia is the founder of Bunchball, a provider of online gamification solutions. Follow him on Twitter @rajatrocks.
Gartner recently issued a press release that made the following provocative assertion: “Gamification i... |
| Nov 26, 2010 | Using Video Games to Burn all that Fat Caused by Playing Video Games (TCTV) | HopeLab is a nonprofit video game lab founded by Pam Omidyar, wife of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. That’s right, I said non-profit video game lab. It seeks to make the world better through video games, and it’s hoping it has a new hit on it... |
| Nov 22, 2010 | Zamzee fights childhood obesity with activity meters and Omidyar funding | eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam have gotten most of the attention for their do-gooder efforts through their investment firm the Omidyar Network. But back in 2001, Pam Omidyar also founded a nonprofit research group called HopeL... |
| Aug 1, 2010 | The New Games People Play: How Game Mechanics Have Changed In The Age Of Social | The crux behind game mechanics is the feeling that you’ve accomplished something; “Whether you’re clicking on a plot of land or a musical note, that is an accomplishment” says Social Gaming Network’s Shervin Pishevar. Social gaming gives yo... |
| Oculus + Kinect + Novo Nordisk = A diabetes education game set in a virtual patient’s body | It was unveiled in March at the Diabetes UK conference and for now is being demoed to healthcare professionals at conferences. But emotive said there has been discussion about the potential of the technology to engage younger, perhaps apath... |
| Morning Read: CVS and IBM partner to predict deteriorating health, GE Healthcare investing $1B in healthcare provider education | TOP STORIES
A CVS and IBM Watson partnership will give the national pharmacy chain access to a predictive analytics tool to flag up which customers are showing deteriorating health, with an eye to chronic conditions. But that’s not the only... |
| Jumps, skips & steps add up to medals & virtual high-fives with this activity tracking game for kids | Kids today are moving less and eating more to the point that one in three of them is overweight or obese, and technology – television, computers, video games, etc. – has taken some of the blame.
Coleman Greene is part of the group that woul... |
| How can social media impact behavioral health of teens, young adults for better and for worse? | I got a
Baby’s brain and an old man’s heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don’t always know what I’m talkin’ about
Feels like I’m livin’ in the middle of doubt
‘Cause I’m
Eighteen
I get confused every day
Eighteen
I just don’t know wh... |
| Day 2: INVEST 2016, live from Chicago | Participate in the MedCity INVEST healthcare investing conference by watching parts of the event live online and following our Day 2 liveblog here.
The schedule of live broadcasts is listed here and will be shown in this post as they happen... |
| Cigna’s healthcare gaming mission: Take a “cancer-fighting” game app global | Ten years ago, it would have seemed strange that a health insurance company would want to encourage children to play video games. With today’s healthcare gaming culture, though, it makes total sense.
Cigna thinks every young cancer patient ... |
