| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.08.2025 | Our Mental Health System is Broken — So Let's Build a Better One It's no secret that our mental health system is failing millions of Americans every year. Instead of trying to mend a broken model, it'... | It's a conversation I've had more times than I can count — often quietly, sometimes tearfully — shared across boardrooms and kitchen tables, in community centers or through late-night phone calls. A colleague admits they're barely getting b... |
| 15.06.2023 | Psychedelics startup Nue Life Health rolls out free version of its ketamine therapy tracking app | Nue Life Health is a U.S.-based telemedicine startup that combines psychedelic-assisted therapies and a health tracking app. Previously, the app was only offered as part of its own internal service. However, the startup is now opening up it... |
| 01.03.2023 | Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Coming Soon To An HR Department Near You | |
| 25.01.2023 | Ketamine is being sold as a depression wonder drug. For some, it's making everything worse. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Three years ago, Jared* a 31-year-old venture capitalist, sat in a purple recliner wearing an eye mask, ambient music pulsing through his B... |
| 24.06.2022 | Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B | To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.
Hey, folks, and welcome to the Friday edition of Daily Crunch. As you might’ve seen, the Supreme Court issu... |
| 23.06.2022 | Wondermed pulls $4,600K out of a hole to ply you with ketamine | For those of us who’ve been a little bit wobbly on the mental health front over the past couple of years, there are a bunch of options starting to crop up. The on-demand chat-based therapy options are one, and at-home ketamine-assisted trea... |
| 19.04.2022 | Nue Life Health raises $23M Series A Led by Obvious Ventures for psychedelics platform | Last year we covered the $3.3 million seed round for NUE Life Health, a US-based telemedicine startup in the US, which was building out a mental wellness platform that combined psychedelic-assisted therapies and a graph database-driven app.... |
| 02.03.2022 | Fireside Project manifests a $200K fund to improve access to careers in psychedelic health | Let’s get three truths out of the way. 1. Drugs are a sensitive topic. 2. In a lot of the world, many drugs that can be used recreationally — including psychedelics — are illegal. 3. A lot of people are willing to break the law to use psych... |
| 18.05.2021 | Lamar Odom says regular, hour-long ketamine therapy sessions helped him through his addiction. Here’s how it works. | Former NBA Star Lamar Odom said medically supervised ketamine therapy helps him stay sober.
Mounting evidence suggests ketamine, often used as a party drug, can treat depression.
Odom, who overdosed in 2015, said he no longer feels a pull t... |
| 21.03.2014 | Welltok moves to be a bigger player in mobile health with Mindbloom acquisition | Investment in mobile health is booming, and so are the exit opportunities in this “mhealth” sector.
Earlier this week, the Seattle-based startup Mindbloom, which develops healthy-living mobile applications, was bought by Denver’s fast-growi... |
| 20.03.2014 | Welltok Acquires Seattle-based Mobile Health Developer Mindbloom | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 3/20/14 11:35 am. See below.] Welltok, a Denver-based health IT startup, has bought Seattle-based Mindbloom for an undisclosed price in an all-cash deal, the company ... |
| 20.03.2014 | Mobile health app maker Mindbloom acquired | A portion of the Mindbloom team
Mindbloom, a Seattle maker of mobile apps designed to help people live healthier lives, has been acquired in a deal of undisclosed size by Denver-based Welltok.
Mindbloom’s 11 employees will be joining Wellto... |
| 27.03.2013 | Prove to friends that you can do 50 pushups or run a marathon with this mobile app | Need a little extra incentive to get in shape, save money or volunteer your time with a non-profit?
Enter Proof, a new mobile app for Android and iPhone from Seattle startup Mindbloom that allows individuals to compete in weekly challenges ... |
| 06.02.2013 | Relationships 101: Best-selling author John Gray partnering with Mindbloom | Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Seattle-based interactive media company Mindbloom has partnered with best-selling author John Gray to provide relationship advice across the company’s apps.
Gray penned the New York Times best-seller Men Ar... |
| 24.01.2013 | Mindbloom hires a big brain: Ex-msnbc.com, InfoSpace exec McElfresh joins as CTO | Travis McElfresh
Seattle startup Mindbloom has hired Travis McElfresh as chief technology officer and vice president of product development and engineering, a key addition to the maker of personal improvement applications like Life Game, Bl... |
| 20.11.2012 | Feeling tired? Mindbloom app helps increase your energy level with a smartphone | Getting tired and feeling sleepy during the day is a common problem. Many of us resort to several cups of joe per day and some even try energy drinks, which are now reported as deadly.
Mindbloom wants to help. The Seattle-based interactive ... |
| 13.10.2012 | Mindbloom’s Chris Hewett on the startup rat race and how to work smarter | Mindbloom’s Chris Hewett
Veteran game designer Chris Hewett and his team at Mindbloom want to make sure you are living your healthiest, happiest life.
Though he was once no stranger to the hectic schedule and eighty-hour work weeks common i... |
| 11.04.2012 | Health insurer Aetna to give away Mindbloom Life Game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Insurance firm Aetna plans to give away the premium version of the Mindbloom Life Game to employees and healthcare customers for free.
... |
| 04.01.2012 | Healthcare Field of Dreams In Idaho: Health System Opens Innovation Center | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| 22.12.2011 | Mindbloom app reveals how men and women want to improve in 2012 (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mindbloom launched its Life Game mobile and web app in September as a novelty that makes you feel good about playing a game. It helps y... |
| 22.12.2011 | Mindbloom app reveals how men and women want to improve in 2012 (exclusive) | Mindbloom launched its Life Game mobile and web app in September as a novelty that makes you feel good about playing a game. It helps you improve your quality of life by rewarding you for doing the things that are really important.
Some 36,... |
| 08.11.2011 | Mindbloom’s new app is healthy living through mobile notifications | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mindbloom launched its Bloom iPhone application today to help us remember the important parts of life in the midst of all these check-i... |
| 07.11.2011 | Finding inspiration in an app? Seattle upstart unveils Bloom | Everyone can use a little pick-me-up or inspiration once in a while. And, if you’ve been down in the dumps, looking to improve family relationships or want to exercise more, a new iPhone app from Seattle startup Mindbloom is here to help.
W... |
| 27.09.2011 | Gaming meets the wellness movement | Mindbloom new online game helps you define what's important in life and how to get it
Mindbloom, a Seattle-based interactive media company, announced today the launch of its new "Mindbloom Life Game," which promises to improve a g... |
| 26.09.2011 | Mindbloom Life game teaches you how to live better | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Most games can be time sinks, stealing time away from the things that you’re supposed to be doing. But Mindbloom is the kind of game yo... |
| 26.09.2011 | Mindbloom: A new game designed to change your life | In some games, you solve puzzles. In others, you try to wipe out enemy forces. But a new offering from Seattle’s Mindbloom has a deeper, more spiritual purpose. It wants to help you improve your life, nurturing a virtual tree by engaging in... |
| 14.08.2011 | Habit Labs Gets $250K To Turn Leading A Healthier Life Into A Game | The Y Combinator funded Contagion Health and Health Month have merged this week to form one big health data focused startup called Habit Labs. Contagion Health’s product, Imoveyou.com has shut down in the merger and instead founders Jen McC... |
| 24.06.2011 | From the Mouths of Babes: The Future of Tech is Robots and Real World Integration | This is Part Two of a two-part series. Part One: Study: Kids are the Road to Tech Innovation
Latitude recently completed a multi-phase innovation study, Children’s Future Requests for Computers and the Internet, which asked kids across the ... |
| 19.05.2011 | Rewind: Keith Smith, BigDoor CEO, on the economics and future of gamification | Keith Smith in the KIRO studios (Erynn Rose photo)
Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Keith Smith, CEO of BigDoor, a Seattle company bringing the principles of video games to the world of online publishing, with badges, le... |
| 03.05.2011 | Mindbloom’s Life Game scores a giant customer: Aetna | Seattle startup Mindbloom has reached a multi-year agreement with health insurance giant Aetna, which will offer an enhanced version of the company’s “Life Game” to its members as a way of promoting health and wellness.
Aetna is Mindbloom’s... |
| 11.06.2010 | Mindbloom, With New Social Game, Finds Niche in Health, Wellness, and “Gamification” of the Web | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
What sits at the intersection of health and wellness websites, virtual currencies, and “gamification” of the Web? Right now, a Seattle startup called Mindbloom.
This is an out... |
| - | Psychedelic trips could soon be part of therapy — here’s what those sessions will look like | Investors are opening their minds and wallets to the possibilities of psychedelic-assisted therapies.
Three biopharmaceutical companies aiming to make psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disorders have gone public in recent months: Pet... |
