5 Top Mental Health Startups Impacting The Industry

Executive Summary: Which are the Top 5 Mental Health Startups to Watch?

1. Sentivisor (Hungary): AI-based sentiment analysis tool that visualizes emotional tone in digital content to support emotional well-being
2. 7Cups (USA): 24/7 anonymous mental health support app connecting users with licensed counselors and coaches for virtual therapy
3. Brightn (USA): AI-driven wellness planner offering check-ins, journaling, and gamified habit tracking to build mental resilience
4. Meditopia (Turkey): Personalized meditation app with sessions, stories, and music to reduce stress and improve sleep
5. Feel Therapeutics (Greece): Wearables and digital CBT for real-time emotion tracking and personalized interventions for anxiety and depression

Global Startup Heat Map highlights Emerging Mental Health Startups to Watch

Through the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 7M+ startups, 20K+ technology trends plus 150M+ patents, news articles & market reports, we identified 3800+ mental health startups.

The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights emerging 5 startups you should watch in 2026 as well as the geo-distribution of 3800+ startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research.

According to our data, we observe high startup activity in the United States and Western Europe, followed by India.

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Explore Emerging Mental Health Startups to Watch in 2026

We hand-picked startups to showcase in this report by filtering for their technology, founding year, location, funding, and other metrics. These emerging mental health startups work on solutions ranging from  AI-based sentiment analysis and on-demand coaching to mood tracking and personalized digital therapy.

1. Sentivisor

• Founding Year: 2024
• Location: Budapest, Hungary
• Solution: AI-based Sentiment Analysis

Sentivisor offers an AI-based sentiment analysis tool that tracks the emotional tone of digital text to support mental health and emotional awareness. It processes content from online sources such as social media, blogs, and news articles. The tool uses pre-trained models built on natural language processing (NLP) and sentiment scoring. It assigns each word an emotion score between 0 and 1 and places it into categories such as joy, fear, sadness, disgust, anger, or surprise.

Further, the startup’s tool visualizes these scores in an emotional diagram that shows how media content may influence psychological states. To protect user privacy, Sentivisor stores all processed text locally and avoids collecting personal data or browsing history.

It is also available as a Chrome extension and alerts users to potentially harmful patterns in media consumption and encourages early recognition of emotional stressors. This enables users to make informed decisions about their digital habits and maintain emotional balance.

2. 7Cups

• Founding Year: 2013
• Location: Palo Alto, CA, US
• Solution: On-Demand Coaching & Virtual Therapy

7Cups creates a mobile app to provide an on-demand, real-time support service with licensed mental health counselors & coaches. The counselors & coaches support individuals in their personal and professional development by introducing them to meditation and breathwork techniques. Consultations are available 24/7 on an anonymous basis thanks to the mobile nature of the service.

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3. Brightn

• Founding Year: 2013
• Location: Cedar Rapids, IA, US
• Solution: Mood Check-ins and Journaling
• Funding: Raised USD 4.5M seed funding led by Felicis Ventures with Anthemis, Exponential Ventures, and SOSV

Brightn builds a personalized mental wellness platform that blends AI-driven support, mood tracking, and structured planning. It improves emotional health, financial confidence, and sense of purpose. The platform starts with a short self-assessment that reviews strengths in health, wealth, and purpose. Based on the results, it generates weekly wellness plans tailored to individual needs.

It allows users to check in daily to track mood, reflect through guided journaling, and complete goal-based tasks. These tasks fall under two categories Daily Essentials and Personalized Opportunities. As users engage, the system visualizes progress and awards points for completed activities. Users are also able to redeem points for actions such as planting trees.

Meanwhile, the platform adjusts recommendations using behavioral patterns and recent research. This approach supports habit formation and strengthens mental resilience.

4. Meditopia

• Founding Year: 2015
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey
• Solution: Meditation Apps

Meditopia develops a meditation app with the aim of reducing stress, sleeping well, and finding calm for body and mind.

The app offers personalized meditation sessions, bedtime stories with a variety of topics to choose from, and music to relax.

5. Feel Therapeutics

• Founding Year: 2015
• Location: Athens, Greece
• Solution: Personalized Digital Therapeutic

Feel Therapeutics builds a digital therapeutics platform, Feel DTx, that blends wearable biosensors, mobile apps, and structured behavioral programs. It supports individuals managing major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).

The platform uses an optional wrist-worn Feel Emotion Sensor to monitor physiological signals. It analyzes these signals in real time to identify emotional states and track mental health patterns. Further, it gives evidence-based interventions to the users through a smartphone app. These include mood journaling, emotion regulation tools, and cognitive restructuring exercises.

At the same time, users take part in a 16-week digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program. Weekly content focuses on resilience, self-awareness, and habit building. The program includes one-on-one sessions with a Board-Certified Behavioral Health Coach.

Feel Therapeutics reports reductions in depression and anxiety symptoms. It also tracks gains in user engagement and overall well-being.

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