Jeff Bezos invests in digital mental health pioneer Mindstrong Health

6 Lit­tle-Known Star­tups Where Jeff Bezos Has Invest­ed Mil­lions (Inc.):

“Jeff Bezos is not only the world’s rich­est man, he’s also a very smart investor. That’s espe­cial­ly true when he invests in star­tups. Over the past few years, he’s put mon­ey into sev­er­al new com­pa­nies that turned out to be phe­nom­e­nal­ly suc­cess­ful, includ­ing Airbnb, Uber, Gen­er­al Assem­bly, Maker­Bot, and Lookout. 

Where is Bezos putting his mon­ey these days? Into a hand­ful of com­pa­nies you’ve prob­a­bly nev­er heard of. But chances are you will, espe­cial­ly now that they have the Ama­zon founder’s mon­ey and smarts back­ing them … These are some of his most recent investments:

1. Mindstrong Health

In Decem­ber 2018, Mind­strong Health announced it had received Series B fund­ing from a group of investors, includ­ing Bezos Expe­di­tions. Mind­strong Health is an app designed to track users’ mood and cog­ni­tion, and iden­ti­fy ear­ly signs of depres­sion or oth­er men­tal health issues. MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review described Mind­strong Health as “the smart­phone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it yourself.”

News in Context:

• Mixed reac­tions on the devel­op­ment of dig­i­tal bio­mark­ers and growth of Mind­strong Health
• Mind­strong Health iden­ti­fies dig­i­tal bio­mark­ers of cog­ni­tive func­tion using smart­phone data
• Five rea­sons the future of brain enhance­ment is dig­i­tal, per­va­sive and (hope­ful­ly) bright
• Mind­strong Health rais­es $14 mil­lion to mod­ern­ize the diag­no­sis and treat­ment of neu­ropsy­chi­atric dis­or­ders via arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) and smartphones
• The FDA cre­ates new Dig­i­tal Health unit to reimag­ine reg­u­la­to­ry paths in the age of scal­able, AI-enhanced innovation
• Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy can improve our lives…if we first address these Pri­va­cy and Informed Con­sent issues
• Learn more and dis­cuss at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (Feb­ru­ary 26–28th)
• Pre­sen­ta­tion by Dr. Tom Insel, Pres­i­dent and Co-Founder of Mind­strong Health, at the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit:

Dig­i­tal Men­tal Health: the Hurt, the Hype, the Hope + Brain­no­va­tions Ses­sion 1 from Sharp­Brains