• Handspring Health

  Participated · Seed · May 2022

  Handspring Health operates a virtual mental health clinic focused on youth and young adults, employing clinicians trained in evidence-based modalities such as CBT, DBT and exposure therapy and providing mandatory ongoing clinical supervision and training. The company treats patients across a spectrum of acuity, including a complex care program for high-risk youth, and has treated more than 4,000 patients across nine states. Handspring reports revenue growth of more than 10x over the past two years and clinical outcomes including 93% of families reporting improvement at discharge, 81% of patients treated for anxiety showing clinically meaningful improvement, and 78% for depression. Over 95% of sessions are covered by insurance and the business is in-network with major commercial insurers like BlueCross BlueShield, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Oscar and Optum. Handspring acquired Joon Care to expand services and in-network coverage in Washington State and plans to scale geographically, deepen payer partnerships, expand parent coaching and continue investing in its AI-enabled technology platform.

• Speechly

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2019

  Speechly offers a natural language understanding (NLU) API that combines NLU and speech recognition to help developers add voice user interfaces to products. The team, positioned as experienced in speech recognition and SLU, says it built proprietary speech-recognition technology "from the ground up" to support a wider range of voice-related experiences. Speechly’s approach aims to create a highly reactive, seamlessly multimodal user experience that guides users in real time to express complex intents, addressing limitations of current voice-assistant platforms. The company also emphasizes the business case for voice by enabling firms to control the end-user experience rather than operating inside third-party ecosystems that collect user data. Speechly plans to use the €2 million seed financing to further develop and open up its API so non-experts can create voice-enabled applications. Otto Söderlund, co-founder and CEO, positions the product as an alternative to classical turn-based dialog agents.

No current team members are available.