The Y Startup Index

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MindRight Health, founded in 2019 and based in Newark, New Jersey, offers mental health coaching through text messages, aiming to make mental health care accessible and inclusive for communities of color and low-income families. The company provides a personalized coaching system that matches users with specific coaches, delivering culturally-responsive support seven days a week. MindRight's services address the unique challenges faced by youth who often avoid traditional clinical services due to stigma and accessibility issues. By partnering with healthcare payers and providers, MindRight creates a continuum of support that helps predict and prevent mental health crises in these communities. Coaches engage with users by checking in regularly and tracking their progress, ensuring effective mental health assistance tailored to their needs.

Aspecta.ai provides a talent engine platform whose recruiting modules are powered by artificial intelligence technology, which integrates big web talent data and analyzes millions of coding projects, tech posts, patents, and papers.

Online fitness platform intended to give users live access to trainers with various fitness options. The company's platform is driven by AI, biometric and wearable tracking technologies, offers live digital classes, one on one personal sessions, and on-demand digital consultations, features the ability to connect via text or video, provides live data and analytics, enabling users to have an immersive live experience tailored to individual personal needs.