National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency in the United States that funds and supports research and education in science and engineering. It funds fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering and administers non-dilutive funding programs to aid early‑stage technology development, helping translate discoveries into commercially viable products and services. Through grants and fellowships, the NSF supports researchers, educators, and startups, contributing to innovation and U.S. competitiveness. The agency operates with a substantial budget to advance science, engineering, and STEM education nationwide.

James Donlon

Program Director

Sean L. Jones

Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Debasis Majumdar

Program Director

Graciela Narcho

Staff Associate

Sethuraman Panchanathan

Director

Past deals in Mental Health

Baldwin Wallace University

Grant in 2023
Baldwin Wallace University, established in 1845 and located in Berea, Ohio, is a non-profit educational institution recognized for its strong regional college ranking by U.S. News and World Report. The university offers a diverse array of undergraduate degrees in fields such as Art History, Criminal Justice, Film Studies, and Neuroscience, along with graduate programs in Business and Education. A notable highlight is its music conservatory, which prepares students for successful careers in various music-related fields, including Broadway and music therapy. Baldwin Wallace emphasizes experiential learning, encouraging students to engage in internships that provide practical application of their studies and enhance employability. The university supports students through personalized Action Plans created in collaboration with career and academic counselors, guiding them in course selection and extracurricular involvement. With over 100 clubs, athletic teams, and residential living options, student life is vibrant and engaging. Additionally, Baldwin Wallace offers health services, personal counseling, and financial aid opportunities to ensure students have access to necessary resources throughout their education.

futuresTHRIVE

Grant in 2022
FuturesTHRIVE develops an AI platform to identify and track pediatric mental health, using artificial intelligence, sentiment analysis and machine learning to establish a mental health baseline that helps doctors and families understand a child's mental health and identify potential conditions early. The company also offers a digital mental health screener for children aged five to nine, collecting data on experiences, relationships and other factors to support informed decisions about a child's well-being.

TQIntelligence

Grant in 2021
TQIntelligence, Inc., established in 2016 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in voice-based artificial intelligence for mental health assessment. The company's platform integrates diverse data sources to provide cognitive insights, enabling risk stratification, tracking treatment outcomes, and personalized behavioral interventions. Key products include TQ-Intelligence, which offers insights from voice/speech analytics and other psychometrically validated instruments, and TQ Analytics, leveraging existing EMR data for actionable insights. The platform features machine learning analytics, knowledge graph, and real-time prediction capabilities to support healthcare professionals in diagnosing mental health issues more effectively, particularly for children who may struggle to communicate their distress.

Kintsugi

Grant in 2021
Kintsugi develops voice biomarker software and mental health infrastructure that detects signs of depression and anxiety from short clips of free-form speech. The platform aims to help clinicians validate biomarkers and identify mental health conditions, enabling medical practitioners to close care gaps in risk-bearing health systems and save time and lives.

HeyKiddo

Grant in 2021
HeyKiddo offers tech-based tools for parenting adults and educators to support children's mental, social, and emotional health. Their products include the HeyKiddo™ App, which helps parents anticipate, detect, address, and prevent such struggles in their children, and HeyKiddo™ Huddle, a comprehensive social-emotional learning curriculum designed for educators and homeschooling parents.

Innsightful

Grant in 2021
Innsightful develops wearable devices that monitor and detect anxiety and stress symptoms using AI and machine learning. Their solution integrates biometrics for early detection and provides access to therapists for personalized recommendations, empowering users to understand and manage their mental health.

Kintsugi

Grant in 2021
Kintsugi develops voice biomarker software and mental health infrastructure that detects signs of depression and anxiety from short clips of free-form speech. The platform aims to help clinicians validate biomarkers and identify mental health conditions, enabling medical practitioners to close care gaps in risk-bearing health systems and save time and lives.

Immersive Reality Group

Grant in 2021
Immersive Reality Group, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, specializes in artificial intelligence and virtual reality technology to deliver personalized healthcare solutions. The company operates a platform designed for stress and anxiety management, which utilizes predictive analytics for health monitoring in home environments. By offering tailored virtual reality experiences, Immersive Reality Group aims to help users alleviate symptoms of stress and anxiety in real time, while also providing educational tools to teach effective coping strategies.

Behaivior

Grant in 2020
Behaivior LLC is a digital health company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, focused on predicting and preventing addiction relapses through innovative technology. Founded in 2017, Behaivior integrates wearable devices with machine learning algorithms to analyze real-time data from various physiological metrics, such as heart rate and skin temperature. The company’s platform, known as Recovery, employs this data to deliver timely interventions tailored to the needs of individuals in recovery. By utilizing a SaaS business model, Behaivior aims to democratize mental health recovery and support, assisting users in maintaining their wellness while enabling care providers to enhance their service delivery. Through its proactive approach, Behaivior seeks to improve mental health outcomes and reduce crisis events associated with addiction.

NeuroFlow

Grant in 2020
NeuroFlow, Inc. is a digital health company that develops a cloud-based platform designed to enhance access to behavioral health and engage patients throughout the continuum of mental healthcare. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, NeuroFlow provides healthcare providers with tools for remote patient monitoring and integration of behavioral health across various care settings, including psychology, primary care, and pain management. The platform employs evidence-based practices to track, assess, and engage patients, promoting overall wellness and improving compliance with treatment. By utilizing patient-generated questionnaires and journaling, NeuroFlow enables individuals to monitor their mental health outcomes and achieve tangible progress. The company has established strategic partnerships with organizations like Smart Health Innovation Lab and Mental Health America to further its mission of improving mental health support and outcomes.

TQIntelligence

Grant in 2019
TQIntelligence, Inc., established in 2016 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in voice-based artificial intelligence for mental health assessment. The company's platform integrates diverse data sources to provide cognitive insights, enabling risk stratification, tracking treatment outcomes, and personalized behavioral interventions. Key products include TQ-Intelligence, which offers insights from voice/speech analytics and other psychometrically validated instruments, and TQ Analytics, leveraging existing EMR data for actionable insights. The platform features machine learning analytics, knowledge graph, and real-time prediction capabilities to support healthcare professionals in diagnosing mental health issues more effectively, particularly for children who may struggle to communicate their distress.

Aural Analytics

Grant in 2019
Aural Analytics, Inc. is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in brain health monitoring through innovative technology. The company has developed a multi-modal analytics platform that utilizes artificial intelligence, signal processing, and speech analytics to detect subtle changes in neurological health. By converting smartphones and tablets into effective brain health monitors, Aural Analytics enables the collection of objective and interpretable data. This technology supplements traditional functional rating scales used in clinical trials, providing continuous and reliable metrics for assessing the effectiveness of medical interventions. Aural Analytics' platform captures clinically relevant speech, fine motor, and linguistic samples to offer healthcare professionals accurate assessments of patient health, thereby enhancing the understanding of disease progression.

Kintsugi

Grant in 2019
Kintsugi develops voice biomarker software and mental health infrastructure that detects signs of depression and anxiety from short clips of free-form speech. The platform aims to help clinicians validate biomarkers and identify mental health conditions, enabling medical practitioners to close care gaps in risk-bearing health systems and save time and lives.

TAO Connect

Grant in 2019
TAO Connect, Inc. is a company that develops and delivers an online treatment program targeting various mental health issues, including generalized anxiety, social anxiety, performance anxiety, and substance abuse recovery. By utilizing a cognitive behavioral treatment module, patients can actively engage in behavioral change while clinicians monitor progress. This module includes educational resources, video conferencing, text messaging, push notifications to encourage engagement, and daily practice assignments through smartphone applications. The company aims to make mental health services more affordable and accessible, significantly benefiting those who have faced barriers to treatment. Its services cater to a wide range of institutions, such as college counseling centers, wellness centers, employee assistance programs, outpatient mental health clinics, and private practitioners. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Saint Petersburg, Florida, TAO Connect is dedicated to reducing mental health disparities and enhancing the quality of care available to individuals in need.

Marigold Health

Grant in 2019
Marigold Health operates a social network community platform that provides AI-augmented chat support groups designed to assist individuals with behavioral health needs. By facilitating anonymous text-based group therapies, the company enables patients dealing with mental health and substance use conditions to connect and support one another. These support groups are complemented by the involvement of recovery coaches who help participants formulate personalized recovery plans. Marigold Health partners with treatment providers and managed care organizations within the Medicaid market, aiming to enhance patient engagement while allowing care teams to manage increased capacity effectively. Through its innovative approach, the company offers on-demand, stigma-free support for individuals seeking to improve their mental health.

Behaivior

Grant in 2018
Behaivior LLC is a digital health company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, focused on predicting and preventing addiction relapses through innovative technology. Founded in 2017, Behaivior integrates wearable devices with machine learning algorithms to analyze real-time data from various physiological metrics, such as heart rate and skin temperature. The company’s platform, known as Recovery, employs this data to deliver timely interventions tailored to the needs of individuals in recovery. By utilizing a SaaS business model, Behaivior aims to democratize mental health recovery and support, assisting users in maintaining their wellness while enabling care providers to enhance their service delivery. Through its proactive approach, Behaivior seeks to improve mental health outcomes and reduce crisis events associated with addiction.

NeuroFlow

Grant in 2018
NeuroFlow, Inc. is a digital health company that develops a cloud-based platform designed to enhance access to behavioral health and engage patients throughout the continuum of mental healthcare. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, NeuroFlow provides healthcare providers with tools for remote patient monitoring and integration of behavioral health across various care settings, including psychology, primary care, and pain management. The platform employs evidence-based practices to track, assess, and engage patients, promoting overall wellness and improving compliance with treatment. By utilizing patient-generated questionnaires and journaling, NeuroFlow enables individuals to monitor their mental health outcomes and achieve tangible progress. The company has established strategic partnerships with organizations like Smart Health Innovation Lab and Mental Health America to further its mission of improving mental health support and outcomes.

SageSurfer

Grant in 2017
SageSurfer operates a mental healthcare platform designed to empower individuals in overcoming behavioral health challenges by fostering collaboration among their caregivers. The platform facilitates comprehensive, coordinated, and outcome-driven personalized care for mental health and addiction treatment. It enables consumers to actively participate in their care planning, ensuring they have a stronger voice in their treatment process. By centering the consumer in the recovery plan and providing access to their entire care team, SageSurfer aims to create a supportive healthcare environment where individuals are not alone in their journey towards recovery and can easily access help when needed.

Transparent

Grant in 2017
Transparent is a developer of neural stimulation, mental training and biofeedback software. The Transparent Corporation is an international collective of researchers, analysts, engineers and enthusiasts who have been brought together by their common interest in brainwave entrainment, biofeedback, psychology and hypnosis. Transparent creates software to meet mental health goals, based on current research and developments in the field of brainwave entrainment and biofeedback.

Aural Analytics

Grant in 2017
Aural Analytics, Inc. is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in brain health monitoring through innovative technology. The company has developed a multi-modal analytics platform that utilizes artificial intelligence, signal processing, and speech analytics to detect subtle changes in neurological health. By converting smartphones and tablets into effective brain health monitors, Aural Analytics enables the collection of objective and interpretable data. This technology supplements traditional functional rating scales used in clinical trials, providing continuous and reliable metrics for assessing the effectiveness of medical interventions. Aural Analytics' platform captures clinically relevant speech, fine motor, and linguistic samples to offer healthcare professionals accurate assessments of patient health, thereby enhancing the understanding of disease progression.

TAO Connect

Grant in 2016
TAO Connect, Inc. is a company that develops and delivers an online treatment program targeting various mental health issues, including generalized anxiety, social anxiety, performance anxiety, and substance abuse recovery. By utilizing a cognitive behavioral treatment module, patients can actively engage in behavioral change while clinicians monitor progress. This module includes educational resources, video conferencing, text messaging, push notifications to encourage engagement, and daily practice assignments through smartphone applications. The company aims to make mental health services more affordable and accessible, significantly benefiting those who have faced barriers to treatment. Its services cater to a wide range of institutions, such as college counseling centers, wellness centers, employee assistance programs, outpatient mental health clinics, and private practitioners. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Saint Petersburg, Florida, TAO Connect is dedicated to reducing mental health disparities and enhancing the quality of care available to individuals in need.

TAO Connect

Grant in 2014
TAO Connect, Inc. is a company that develops and delivers an online treatment program targeting various mental health issues, including generalized anxiety, social anxiety, performance anxiety, and substance abuse recovery. By utilizing a cognitive behavioral treatment module, patients can actively engage in behavioral change while clinicians monitor progress. This module includes educational resources, video conferencing, text messaging, push notifications to encourage engagement, and daily practice assignments through smartphone applications. The company aims to make mental health services more affordable and accessible, significantly benefiting those who have faced barriers to treatment. Its services cater to a wide range of institutions, such as college counseling centers, wellness centers, employee assistance programs, outpatient mental health clinics, and private practitioners. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Saint Petersburg, Florida, TAO Connect is dedicated to reducing mental health disparities and enhancing the quality of care available to individuals in need.
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