Meet Our Entrepreneurs
The power of lived experiences are at the core of our Headstream Accelerator community.
Driven by a commitment to improve the mental health of future generations, these entrepreneurs are leading the way in developing impactful, youth-centered technologies. Informed by their own lived experiences, they bring fresh perspectives that celebrate diversity and push the boundaries of innovation.
Together, they’re shaping a more inclusive and healthy future for all.
+48M
Young people and caring adults have been reached through the digital products we support
$120M+
has been raised to fuel the entrepreneurs transforming youth mental health
Meet the 2025 Accelerator and Residency Cohorts
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Arise Health
Arise is a tech-enabled collaborative care model for eating disorders that combines peer support, personalized clinical care, and digital tools to drive long-term healing.
Art Pharmacy
Art Pharmacy partners with organizations in healthcare, education, and the public sector to combat the mental health and loneliness crises through the power of social prescribing.
Arul Health
Elevating cancer survivorship care through digital health interventions.
Dahlia Health
Dahlia Health gives teens the health answers, support, and care they actually want by combining smart AI with real human guidance to help them grow up feeling healthy, confident, and in control.
Guardian Lane
Guardian Lane supports grieving students' mental health through on-demand creative therapy projects in and after school.
Here Now Health
Here Now Health is the first virtual healthcare company built exclusively for kids and families impacted by the child welfare system.
HeyBro
HeyBro exists to equip young men with digital tools, support, and confidence to face life’s challenges head-on, transforming moments of struggle into growth, connection, and lasting strength.
Kismet Health
Unlocking quality care for families everywhere.
Knowlej
To help schools and organizations bring learn to earn opportunities to students.
Koomba
Koomba is a digital health company that supports performance and nutrition for young athletes.
Luna Game Labs
Luna Game Labs creates emotionally resonant, narrative-driven games that empower players to support themselves and others through imaginative play and emotionally attuned design.
Navi
Navi helps youth navigate everyday challenges through 10 minute self-guided, mini activities, available 24/7, that are proven to reduce hopelessness and strengthen wellbeing.
Navi
Navi is a no-cost mental health navigation platform that helps individuals and families quickly find the right care by cutting through waitlists, insurance hurdles, and confusion—so no one falls through the cracks.
Nunchi Health
Nunchi Health makes mental health support accessible for young people worldwide.
Pandora's Way
We're creating a platform to support parents in raising digitally healthy adolescents via personalized challenges that build skills and character.
Psyche Care
Psyche is a post-ER/inpatient single-point-of-access mental health care navigation for families with children with severe emotional complexities. We're reducing family stress by providing informed clinical/non-clinical care guidance.
Puberry
Puberry is a B2B SaaS platform offering an AI-powered, gamified K–12 health curriculum. Designed to be inclusive, medically verified, and engaging, Puberry helps students build lifelong knowledge about their mental and physical well-being.
ReMinded, Inc.
ReMinded, Inc. is commercializing the first, clinical-grade rapid saliva test for cortisol, the main stress hormone, designed to enhance patient outcomes in addiction and PTSD care.
Sojorne, Inc.
Sojorne is transforming autism care for kids and teens in the Southeast through AI-supported navigation, hybrid therapy, and short intakes—bridging provider gaps and accelerating access in underserved communities.
Sol Health
Sol Health unlocks an overlooked pool of therapists-in-training to deliver modern, affordable, and deeply relatable mental-health care to young adults while empowering the next generation of clinicians.
Sonar
Sonar is a personal well-being companion for young people ages 13-18 that provides anonymous peer support, navigation to resources/care and helps to identify challenges via analysis of digital activity.
Voda
Voda exists to ensure every LGBTQIA+ person can access affirming, compassionate and clinically-informed mental health support.
oVRcome
oVRcome makes evidence-based exposure therapy accessible to people worldwide, empowering them to overcome anxiety disorders through clinically-validated, self-guided virtual reality programs that eliminate barriers of cost, location, and stigma.
Accelerator and Residency Alumni
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Appa Health
Appa Health improves teen mental health by providing diverse college-graduate mentors via text/video chat. Mentors support teens as relatable role models alongside a CBT video curriculum.
Astro Studios
Astro Studios is a digital media company that uses podcasts and weekly in-person discussion groups to provide emotional support for young people aged 13-22.
Backpack Health
Backpack Health offers a unique behavioral and mental healthcare model that gives children and their families greater access to care by making intervention faster and more accessible for youth and low-income families.
Big Health
Big Health is the new standard in accessible, effective mental health care, offering proven treatment for common mental health conditions through fully digital solutions. Ask ChatGPT.
Breakthru
Breakthru is a free app that specializes in reaching Gen Z where they live via mobile apps, gamification, and for-purpose driven communities, focusing on reaching youth from underrepresented communities.
Clayful
Clayful, is designed to enhance mental health support within schools through on-demand and weekly coaching, by providing students with access to a human coach in just 60 seconds.
CloseGap
Closegap offers bite-sized resources and real-time tools for early and crisis intervention. It's a fully digital platform that empowers schools to meet students where they are and use data to support their well-being effectively.
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Clymb
Clymb is an AI-driven mental and emotional health software providing personalized, culturally competent wellness support to school-age children, especially in underserved Black and Brown communities.
Dreami
Dreami, is a platform for educational non-profits, educational organizations, and companies to power career mentorship programs for youth. Dreami offers various services that help marginalized youth gain access to opportunities that can benefit them for a lifetime.
Enlight
Enlight helps educators expand their capacity to know their students with student-built profiles full of actionable insights to inform their teaching and create inclusive learning environments both online and in the classroom.
Equipt
EquipT offers micro-learning opportunities so that users can continuously engage with this information in a fun and interactive way.
Evemore
Evrmore is a voice journaling app that lets you capture key moments throughout the day by just speaking your mind. Voice AI connects each key moment of internal reflection and group interaction to build awareness and relatedness in a safe space.
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Flourish Labs
Flourish Labs is a healthcare company on a mission to scale professional peer support with technology to address the youth mental health crisis.
Gamer Safer
GamerSafer helps game companies prevent bullying, harassment, hate speech, sexism, predators, and fraudsters by working on prevention instead of damage mitigation.
Global Nomads
Global Nomads unites young people across boundaries and borders. Through their programs, young people come together to collaborate, share stories, foster understanding, and break down barriers.
Grit Digital Health
Nod is an app that addresses loneliness on college campuses by empowering youth with the critical tools and experience needed to flourish as social beings.
Healium
Healium is mental fitness for a new reality powered by biometric data from consumer wearables. Users can control these AR and VR stories by quieting their minds, increasing their focus, or lowering their heart rate using their memories as fuel.
Healthy Hip Hop
Healthy Hip Hop blends the essence of hip-hop culture with cutting-edge technology and education to enhance student learning environments and provide a safe online experience.
HiJo
HiJo is building the physical bridge between well-being and the digital world. It uses MoodMate to monitor insights to support productivity, engagement, and well-being in your physical environment.
Inpathy
Inpathy is reinventing the social media experience to provide an app that inspires transparency and normalizes all moods. Inpathy, encourages users to be transparent and share moments and build community through like-minded emotions.
Kalda
Kalda is an LGBTQIA+ mental wellbeing app providing video therapy sessions, and therapeutic journaling to support anxiety and depression for the LGBTQIA+ and intersectional communities.
Legends
Legends is designed under the premise that confidence is the key to a happy and successful future. Legends is an app that builds kids’ confidence.
Lessonbee
Lessonbee sits at the intersection of edtech and telehealth, reinventing health education for kids and teens through culturally responsive digital learning experiences that promote connection, diversity, and empathy.
Levl
Levl shows youth and their clinicians how their medication treatment is impacting their wellbeing – empowering health literacy and self-efficacy.
Local Civics
Local Civics connects students to powerful civic learning and community leadership experiences. By leveraging technology and using game-based learning, Local Civics incentivizes and empowers students to become active citizens in their communities and learn about social issues that are important to them.
Love is Louder
Love is Louder is a project with The Jed Foundation to amplify the stories, messages, and opportunities to take action that support our mental health and help us feel more connected.
Manatee
Manatee, is a virtual mental health care platform designed to meet the unique needs of families. Offering personalized, 12-week care plans that include child and family therapy along with parent coaching.
Maro
Maro, is on a mission to bridge the 11-year gap between the onset of mental health symptoms and early intervention in youth. By partnering with schools, districts, clinics, and health plans, Maro creates a digital ‘medical neighborhood’ for early intervention and risk detection.
Modality
Modality’s AI-enabled infrastructure, training and safety mechanisms bring qualified mental health paraprofessionals more jobs while reducing healthcare systems costs, starting with needs in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Movement Genius
Movement Genius uses movement for mental and emotional health. No equipment, no high price tag, no fitness or special skills required. Movement Genius is clinically designed, personalized movement to help youth of all identities feel better, reduce stress, and find confidence.
Neolth
Neolth, is a mobile app that integrates technology with youth voices to provide mental health support for students globally. The company boasts a youth ambassador network spanning 35 states and 20 countries. Neolth has been named one of the top global solutions for youth mental health by the World Economic Forum.
Novelly
Novelly is an ed-tech nonprofit creating space both online and offline for teens to have courageous conversations that lead to social change. Novelly’s work curates collections of stories written for youth that humanize the issues of our time, from climate change to immigration reform to anti-Black racism.
Peer Health Exchange
selfsea is a digital community created inclusively with and for young people as a safe space to discuss and share knowledge on identity, mental health, and sexual health.
Psyche
Psyche is a post-ER/inpatient single-point-of-access mental health care navigation for families with children with severe emotional complexities. We're reducing family stress by providing informed clinical/non-clinical care guidance.
Rap Research Lab
Rap Research Lab is an educational youth program that engages teens and schools in exploring hip-hop as cultural data to produce visual communications and new understandings of the world around them.
Reliabl
Lips is on a mission to encourage open and honest creative expression among women and the LGBTQIA+ communities.
ShockTalk
ShockTalk is the first telebehavioral and wellbeing app tailored specifically for Indigenous communities in the US. The app leverages social media platforms as the point of entry for clients to use the ShockTalk AI via any phone or computer.
Snow Bright Studios
Snowbright Studio is a game studio dedicated to creating unique and heartwarming experiences, tabletop and digital games.
Social Cipher
Social Cipher builds social-emotional online games to enlighten all neurotypes. The company released its first web-based game, Ava, to help learners understand the challenges and strengths related to autism and neurodivergent behavior.
Somethings
Somethings, is a low-cost tele-behavioral health platform that connects teens with 20-28-year-old Certified Peer Specialist Mentors and clinical providers.
Sonar
Sonar is a personal well-being companion for young people ages 13-18 that provides anonymous peer support, navigation to resources/care and helps to identify challenges via analysis of digital activity.
TQIntelligence, Inc.
TQIntelligence is an AI-powered pediatric mental health platform that uses advanced voice analysis to instantly identify the level of emotional distress and determine the right level of care for treatment.
TadHealth
TadHealth offers digital mental health care delivery tools for the education sector to enhance the engagement and optimize mental health services for students.
Tellmi
Tellmi is a digital mental health service offering young people aged 11-25 access to anonymous, pre-moderated, and age-banded peer support. The platform also includes pre-emptive counselor intervention, Solution Focused Therapy, and a directory of resources and services.
This Teenage Life
TTL brings young people together to talk about issues they care about such as grappling with loneliness, body image, climate grief, processing parental divorce, and more and transform it into multimedia art that supports the podcast.
Throughline Care
ThroughLine enables organizations to deliver crisis support that is on-brand, privacy-safe, and compliant with regulations, meeting their duty of care without the burden of managing it in-house.
Trill Project
Trill is an anonymous social networking app for users to express themselves, answer questions, ask questions, discover content, and more. On Trill, users join virtual support groups that correspond to specific topics such as “anxiety” or “coming out.”
Violet
Violet measures and strengthens provider capabilities at scale–giving health care organizations insight into their network’s readiness to deliver person-centered care and tools to support ongoing improvement across populations
Weird Enough Productions
Weird Enough Productions is a comic company building a new world of stories that will change the one we live in. After seeing the impact that media stereotypes had on students in his community.
Welfie
Welfie connects teens to the people, places and providers that care for them by delivering personalized health education and care coordination and creating youth health equity response organizers (H.E.R.O.s) along the way.