Participated · Seed · Oct 2021

MEandMine offers an AI-powered screening platform embedded in classroom games that captures 160+ in-game data points to flag students' psychological risks in real time. The system provides teachers and school counselors with early screening signals to enable tier 2 and tier 3 interventions. As students play, the AI-flagging supports rapid identification of psychological risk and data-informed decisions for support. The company is led by founder Elinor Huang and is focused on classroom well-being for young children. MEandMine recently raised $4.5M and intends to use the funds to expand operations and advance product development. The startup is based in Palo Alto, California. MEandMine was developed by Elinor Huang alongside pediatricians, psychologists, educators and parents to help children discover emotional strength and build resilience. Its core offerings are hands-on play experiences and interactive stories designed to develop early social-emotional skills, drawing on neuroscience and research from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard. The company is rolling out Phy-Gital classes that combine online curriculum with hands-on experiments, while developing play systems, enriched content and an IP strategy. MEandMine plans subscription products, global expansion, and future AI-powered prediction models to support autistic children and help therapists understand behavioral triggers. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area (Los Gatos, Calif.), the startup recently closed a $2.1 million seed financing to support product development and expansion.