With a pandemic taking great casualties on mental health, the impact of some psychiatrists said it could be felt for years, many students dived into the startup room of mental health.
Venture funding for mental health startups reaches new heights in most countries, especially after impressions and problems increases.
Team four engineering students from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, recently launched ‘Amigo’, online counseling and therapy applications.
Likewise, Abhinav Kumar, a third year engineering student at the University of Pune, launched ‘Mindcommuth.com’.
Priyanshu Gupta, the founder of AMIGO and the third engineering student, revealed stigma related to mental health problems pushing the idea.
“Most students experience difficult phases, and even though we have counselors in college, it runs according to them needing a lot of courage.
Many feel that if they are seen, they may be judged,” he said.
Recording pandemic chaos causing mental health, Priyanshu together with Arko Chattopadhyay, Enrique Ferrao and Pranaav Reddy launched their platforms that offer counseling in eight broad categories – general counseling, child therapy, living coaches, and concern, family therapy, parenting counseling and company counseling.
“We have a list of 17 simplified problems and users can easily reach one of the 36 therapists from all 20 cities.
They speak 12 languages.
Startup is in the final stage incubated on the Universal Manipal Technology Business Incubator,” Priyanshu said.
Meanwhile, it was disturbed by a number of suicides around them, friends of childhood Abhinaav and Retic Singh decided to launch a website to help people “sleep well”.
Abhinaav said, “This will be a free platform.
We have been friends like Mahika Pillai, a psychology student at Delhi University, who will lead psychology, Jyotnoon Kanwar, a student neuroscience behavior in SFU, Canada, as a Psychology consultant and Pratham Mehra from Symbiosis International University , Pune, our management associate.
“He added:” We are looking for more volunteers and will soon launch the test series and chatbots.
We hope to be under the parent NGO umbrella.
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