Innovate UK

Founded in 2007, Innovate UK is a non-profit organization based in Swindon, UK. It supports businesses across various economic sectors by offering funding services to promote science and technology innovations.

Mike Biddle

Programme Director of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

Will Drury

Executive Director, Digital and Technologies

Paul Gadd

Deputy Director

Dr. Tom Jenkins

Deputy Director

Scott James O'Brien

Director, Innovation Finance

Nigel Walker

Deputy Director, Lending and Investor Partnerships

Past deals in Mental Health

Myogenes

Grant in 2024
Myogenes provides psychiatric tests, heredity cancer tests, and mental health mind maps.

Monument Therapeutics

Grant in 2024
Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing drugs for treating serious diseases of the central nervous system. Its innovative approach employs proprietary digital biomarkers to reduce patient heterogeneity, enabling more targeted neuroscience drug development in areas with unmet medical needs.

BERRI

Grant in 2023
BERRI is a digital toolkit that can identify, track, and support children's psychological needs, as well as provide personalized reports to their carers. It analyses children and young people's needs in areas such as behavior, emotional well-being, relationships, risk, and indicators of underlying disorders.

CalmBrain

Grant in 2023
CalmBrain is a digital platform that provides psychological intervention for schools to assist students in managing their mental health, including anxiety, stress, and trauma.

Juniver

Grant in 2023
Juniver is a company focused on supporting individuals in long-term recovery from eating disorders through a neuroscience-based recovery program. It offers a platform that provides practical tools and habit-formation principles tailored to address disordered eating. By fostering a supportive community, Juniver enables users to manage cravings and ease urges, promoting sustainable recovery. The company's approach emphasizes specialized care and on-demand assistance, creating a comprehensive network for those seeking help in their journey towards healing.

InsideOut

Grant in 2023
InsideOut specializes in mental health care and well-being support and is based in London. The company develops a health therapy platform delivered through an online application that uses an intelligent matching system to connect users with therapists, with the aim of breaking down social stigma and facilitating ongoing mental health care and positive well-being.

XR Therapeutics

Grant in 2023
XR Therapeutics is a startup spun out of Newcastle University, offering healthcare services to support individuals with anxiety and phobias. It combines cognitive behavioral techniques with virtual reality simulations, recreating tailored scenarios in a controlled environment for effective treatment.

Syndi

Grant in 2023
Syndi is a digital health support recommendation platform that utilizes machine learning and digital phenotyping, with a primary focus on mental health. The company develops technology-driven solutions aimed at enhancing individuals' health by providing effective and accessible support. Syndi's platform employs passive smartphone data collection to gather moment-to-moment information about users, allowing it to deliver personalized and immediate care. This innovative approach not only facilitates connections between patients and healthcare providers but also measures the effectiveness of applications and digital services in treating invisible disabilities. Through its commitment to leveraging technology and research, Syndi seeks to improve healthcare outcomes for its users.

FLY Mama

Grant in 2023
FLY Mama is an online, trauma-informed integrated healthcare solution for pre- and postpartum well-being. The platform provides mental, emotional, and physical health support through an online membership, offering professional care across fertility journeys, pregnancy, and the postpartum period, including care for perinatal trauma and loss. It aims to function as an employee benefit program to support women during and after pregnancy, empowering them to navigate motherhood with greater confidence and well-being.

eMoodie

Grant in 2022
eMoodie is a technology company that has developed an app designed for ecological momentary assessment research, focusing on mental health, emotions, and socialization patterns in children and adolescents. The app, designed as a research tool, examines symptoms, feelings, and health aspects, including sleep, in older kids, teenagers, and adults. It also enables parents to monitor and mitigate the digital mental impact on their children.

Nolea Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Nolea Health is a healthcare recruitment platform focused on mental health talent. Its AI-powered platform accelerates sourcing, evaluation, and engagement of clinical professionals for healthcare organizations. It connects verified mental health clinicians with open roles, helping address clinician shortages, streamline hiring, and improve flexibility and job satisfaction for clinical staff. The platform draws on data from more than two hundred healthcare sources, provides AI-driven candidate insights and personalized outreach, and integrates with applicant tracking systems, enabling recruitment agencies to fill hard-to-reach clinical roles faster and with greater accuracy.

Co-Opts

Grant in 2022
Co-Opts develops a healthcare platform that enhances mental health therapy productivity via digital tools. It enables therapists to monitor patients between sessions, reduces clinical burnout, and improves therapy accessibility.

Awakn Life Sciences

Grant in 2022
Awakn Life Sciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing and delivering innovative psychedelic medicine aimed at treating addiction, with a primary focus on Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). The company comprises a multidisciplinary team of chemists, scientists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who are working to create the next generation of psychedelic drugs and therapies, as well as the technologies that enable their use. Recognizing the inadequacies of current treatment options for AUD, Awakn aims to provide breakthrough therapeutics for individuals suffering from addiction, addressing a significant medical need both in the United States and internationally.

Paranimo

Venture Round in 2022
Paranimo aims to make mental health support more accessible in workplaces. It uses matching intelligence technology to connect therapists with suitable clients, enabling professionals to provide mental health assistance conveniently and improving workplace wellbeing.

Paranimo

Grant in 2021
Paranimo aims to make mental health support more accessible in workplaces. It uses matching intelligence technology to connect therapists with suitable clients, enabling professionals to provide mental health assistance conveniently and improving workplace wellbeing.

People Matter

Debt Financing in 2021
People Matter is a software development company focused on enhancing mental health through innovative technology. It specializes in creating applications that monitor and analyze human behavior using machine learning and artificial intelligence. By leveraging a scientific understanding of psychology and data science, the company offers a proprietary measurement scale, known as PEBB, to help users identify the balance between their internal resources and external demands. This approach enables individuals to recognize what energizes them, ultimately facilitating lasting changes for improved well-being. People Matter aims to support those affected by stress, promoting healthier lifestyles and enhanced mental resilience.

Invatech Health

Grant in 2021
Invatech Health provides software as a service solution. It also develops several products to address unresolved issues in areas such as domiciliary care and mental health. It specializes in the healthcare and social care industries.

People Matter

Grant in 2021
People Matter is a software development company focused on enhancing mental health through innovative technology. It specializes in creating applications that monitor and analyze human behavior using machine learning and artificial intelligence. By leveraging a scientific understanding of psychology and data science, the company offers a proprietary measurement scale, known as PEBB, to help users identify the balance between their internal resources and external demands. This approach enables individuals to recognize what energizes them, ultimately facilitating lasting changes for improved well-being. People Matter aims to support those affected by stress, promoting healthier lifestyles and enhanced mental resilience.

Unforged

Grant in 2020
Unforged is a software-enabled mobile app, designed to provide timely, easily accessible wellness and personal development support and coaching to empower young people to understand, manage and improve their mental and emotional health and chances of success in life, develop self-esteem, self-identity and self-efficacy, mental and emotional regulation, optimism, ambition, resilience and coping skills.

Lumino

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Lumino is focused on enhancing mental health outcomes through the development of digital therapeutic programs. These programs specifically address various mental health concerns and incorporate techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help individuals manage their symptoms effectively. Supported by Innovate UK and the Oxford Academic Health Science Network, Lumino aims to leverage digital technology to deliver scalable mental health services, ultimately promoting healthier and happier lives for users.

Unforged

Grant in 2020
Unforged is a software-enabled mobile app, designed to provide timely, easily accessible wellness and personal development support and coaching to empower young people to understand, manage and improve their mental and emotional health and chances of success in life, develop self-esteem, self-identity and self-efficacy, mental and emotional regulation, optimism, ambition, resilience and coping skills.

Discova Health

Grant in 2020
Discova Health Ltd is a digital health company that offers an AI-powered mental health and resilience web application designed for corporations and the public sector. The platform provides personalized, evidence-based self-help interventions and action plans for prevalent mental health issues within minutes of sign-up. Unlike traditional solutions that merely address problems, Discova's approach focuses on predicting the most beneficial support pathways by analyzing data on user engagement, motivation, and behavior change. With over 1.9 million potential action plan combinations derived from its knowledge networks, the platform aims to deliver tailored support that can help prevent crises. Additionally, it empowers employees to take charge of their mental health through customized plans that incorporate professional, complementary, and peer interventions, promoting a supportive environment within organizations.

Ieso Digital Health

Grant in 2018
Ieso Digital Health provides online, evidence-based mental health therapy via a digital platform, enabling one-to-one cognitive behavioral therapy delivered by accredited therapists in a virtual, convenient setting. The service covers common mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, sleep problems, and related issues, and also supports patients with chronic physical health problems, medically unexplained symptoms, and other cognitive concerns. The company uses proprietary technology, including natural language processing and artificial intelligence, to monitor therapist protocol adherence and risk in real time, enabling text-based therapy sessions. It serves health providers including the NHS, private individuals, and employers, expanding access to clinically validated care outside traditional in-person settings.

BfB LABS

Grant in 2018
BFB Labs provides state of the art digital therapeutics for better youth mental health, creating a new way of building resilience in a whole generation. Our products fuse evidence-based therapeutic approaches with immersive and responsible gaming making them highly engaging, scientifically robust and cost-effective.

Kooth

Grant in 2018
Kooth plc is a prominent digital mental health provider in the United Kingdom, focusing on children and young people. Established in 2001 and headquartered in London, the company offers an online platform that includes a variety of therapeutic tools and interventions, such as self-help resources, peer-to-peer support communities, and professional counseling services. Kooth aims to make mental health support accessible to all, delivering clinically-proven digital self-help resources and personalized journeys to wellbeing. The platform provides free access to mental health services, funded by healthcare systems, insurers, businesses, or charities, and serves users in both the UK and the United States.
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