Safe, Effective Prescription Mental Wellness. For Everyone.
Tactogen is a pharmatech startup developing the next generation of MDMA-like medicines. Founded by Genentech data science leader and PhD neuroscientist Matthew Baggott and deeptech serial entrepreneur Luke Pustejovsky, Compared to existing psychedelics, our gentler, less euphoric compounds can facilitate psychotherapy, decision-making, and psychological growth while having less need for the expensive clinical monitoring. Our IP includes drug discovery methods, novel molecules, and pharmaceutical preparations. These all focus on one goal: enabling safer take-home prescription empathogens. We believe this will be the key to effective and accessible mental wellness. Tactogen: Effective Prescription Mental Wellness. For Everyone.
Tactogen is a pharmatech startup developing the next generation of MDMA-like medicines. Founded by Genentech data science leader and PhD neuroscientist Matthew Baggott and deeptech serial entrepreneur Luke Pustejovsky, Compared to existing psychedelics, our gentler, less euphoric compounds can facilitate psychotherapy, decision-making, and psychological growth while having less need for the expensive clinical monitoring. Our IP includes drug discovery methods, novel molecules, and pharmaceutical preparations. These all focus on one goal: enabling safer take-home prescription empathogens. We believe this will be the key to effective and accessible mental wellness. Tactogen: Effective Prescription Mental Wellness. For Everyone.
Location: United States, California, Palo Alto
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2020
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | JLS Fund | jls.fund |
| - | leafytunne... | leafytunne... |
| - | Noetic Fun... | noeticfund... |
| - | PsyMed Ven... | psymed.ven... |
Mentions in press and media 2
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| 13.12.2023 | Health | New psychedelic-like drugs: All treatment, no trip? | Since their creation decades ago, mind-altering drugs have remained as unchanged as bellbottoms, tie-dye and patchouli oil. Now — full of promise and peril — psychedelics are undergoing a makeover. Chemical neuroscientists, many based in No... |
| 27.03.2023 | Here are the 15 hottest startups in the psychedelics industry, according to top investors | From left: Sherry Rais, a cofounder and the CEO of Enthea; Mark Rus, the CEO of Delix Therapeutics; Jackie von Salm, a cofounder and the CSO of Psilera; Jimmy Qian, a cofounder and the president of Osmind. Sherry Rais/Enthea; Mark Rus/Delix... |