Youper is a mental health app centered on an AI-powered chatbot the company calls an "emotional health assistant," which guides users through questions, mood tracking, mindfulness exercises and journaling prompts. Co-founded in 2016 by Dr. Jose Hamilton with Diego Couto and Thiago Marafon, the app aims to lower barriers to mental healthcare by providing a less intimidating, more accessible introduction to therapeutic techniques. Youper personalizes recommendations by combining mental health research and anonymized user data to match psychological techniques such as cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to individual users. The company says Youper has been downloaded more than one million times, that average sessions are about seven minutes long, and that 80% of users report a reduction in negative moods after one conversation. It reports that roughly 25% of people who sign up are still active after 30 days. Youper is currently free, may test a freemium model in the future, and plans to use its recently raised funds to accelerate AI development and grow its user base.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jun 2019