One Mind Accelerator

One Mind Accelerator is sponsored by One Mind. The One Mind Accelerator supports founders of early-stage startups in mental health with a network, education, and capital to build companies improving the lives of people facing mental health challenges. It's a 10-week intensive hybrid program with mentoring, fundraising support, and business development.

One Mind Accelerator - One Mind Rising Star Awards (Grants) Research Partnerships & Events Partner with the Accelerator Mental Health at Work Index One Mind Lived Experience Initiative Community Advisory Network Cumulative Funds Raised by Portfolio People Served by Portfolio Companies Shaping a Hopeful Future for Mental Health through Innovation & Entrepreneurship The One Mind Accelerator backs bold and determined founders of early-stage startups with the network, education and capital to build category-defining companies that radically improve the lives of people facing mental health challenges.

Launched in 2023, the highly competitive program selects a cohort of 10-15 startups each year from hundreds of applicants. The companies span care model innovations to diagnostics and treatments, and are prioritized for serious mental illness, youth mental health, maternal mental health, and precision psychiatry.

Designed from the ground up with a specific focus on mental health, the selected founders participate in ten weeks of programming, with in-person opening and closing weeks in Menlo Park, CA. The program leverages One Mind’s vast and influential network of leaders and domain experts to help the startups take their innovations to market faster and with greater impact for people facing mental illness.

Supported by leading philanthropists and corporations, the One Mind Accelerator seeks to usher in a new era of value-based, affordable, accessible, equitable and personalized mental healthcare.

Supercharging Founders: Everything You Need to Build Your Mental Health Startup A 10-week intensive hybrid program that blends cohort-based and ultra-customized, milestone-driven programming to help founders fast-track company building Receive advice, guidance, and coaching from our 300+ mentor network, with the domain expertise, experience, and connections to fast-track company building Receive warm introductions to world-class investors, coaching to raise your next round, and grant-support to raise from non-dilutive sources Leverage facilitated meetings with payors, providers, employers, academic medical centers, etc., to secure deals and strategic partnerships to validate product and market Elevate your leadership skills, cultivate peak performance, and build your personal / company brand through 1:1 coaching, workshops, and thought leadership opportunities Exchange ideas, problem solve, and build friendships with your cohort, Alumni, and the One Mind community, all with deep commitment to helping one another Candid conversations with founders of successful/ unsuccessful mental health companies for unvarnished perspectives on company building Workshops, seminars, panels and roundtables led by subject-matter experts to rapidly fill gaps in your knowledge and refine skills 1:1 meetings with 30+ mentors who ask the hard questions and share earned insights, strategic advice, and connections highly relevant for your business Elevate your leadership skills, cultivate peak performance, and build your personal/ company brand through 1:1 coaching, workshops, and thought leadership opportunities Curated Events & Activities Networking dinners, demo day, nature walks, breathwork, and team building activities to expand your network and build camaraderie with your peers What’s different about the One Mind Accelerator is their specific focus on mental health.

As a non-profit, OMA is mission-aligned. They want to achieve outcomes we are striving for, beyond financial returns. Co-Founder & CEO, Motif Neurotech The One Mind Accelerator was very personalized to what we needed, the stage that we were in, and what we needed for success.

Early strategy sessions with the OMA team actually got us very quickly to focus. Founder & CEO, Cerula Care The One Mind Accelerator has been a game-changer for us, filling gaps we couldn’t have tackled on our own with their team and expertise. They provided access to crucial contacts and knowledge in areas we had no access to.

Co-Founder & CEO, Function Health The One Mind Accelerator did an extraordinary job of using their vast network to bring in a really diverse set of mentors. Everyone came in and said, ‘how can I help you be successful? ’ Founder & CEO, Flourish Labs The One Mind Accelerator brought together an absolutely A+ cohort of founders.

People I can learn from, collaborate with. I would say these are the top 10 early-stage, mental health startups in the market right now. Founder & CEO, Humans Anonymous The One Mind Accelerator was hugely valuable to our company.

These two months saved me 5 years of building out my network in the mental health ecosystem. Co-Founder & CEO, Attune Neurosciences Operating at the intersection of scientific, technological, clinical, and business model innovation, the One Mind Accelerator portfolio companies are transforming how we access, diagnose, treat, manage, and prevent mental illness.

Biomia is pioneering drug discovery and biomanufacturing of human-validated nature-inspired molecules in one platform. By integrating patient-derived data and human-based evidence of efficacy, AI-guided drug design, and scalable biomanufacturing, Biomia is developing a pipeline of novel, safe, and efficacious therapies for unmet needs in patients suffering from CNS disorders.

Eratos Therapeutics is revolutionizing CNS drug discovery with its groundbreaking approach, integrating spatial computing and AI-driven nanoscale mapping to build ground-truth world models of the brain. By leveraging advanced technologies, Eratos identifies high-specificity therapeutic targets and expedites the development of precision-engineered therapeutics for neurodegenerative, neuroinflammatory, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Flow Neuroscience is pioneering a new category of at-home electric medicine and delivering drug-free, brain-based treatments for mental health. Flow is world’s first clinically validated FDA approved at-home transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) headset.

Since its European launch in 2019, Flow has become the only CE-marked at-home tDCS treatment for depression used by the NHS, empowering more than 55,000 people to take control of their mental health. With FDA approval in 2025, the US joins the UAE, Australia, Brazil, the UK and EU as countries where Flow’s accessible depression treatment is available.

Forecast Bio is building an AI-powered preclinical platform that directly links complex cellular neurobiology to patients’ mental health outcomes. By mapping how new drugs impact human brain circuits and symptoms, Forecast is speeding up therapeutics development by 10x—and radically transforming what’s possible in brain and mind health.

Limbic is a clinically-validated AI agent for mental healthcare, used by health systems and payers across the UK and US. The AI has supported more than 600,000 patients in treatment, and is the only AI mental health chatbot approved as a Class II medical device, supported by a growing evidence base of seven peer-reviewed studies, including in Nature Medicine.

Manatee is a family mental health provider addressing the pediatric mental health crisis by treating the entire family system, including parents. Their evidence-based, whole-family model is proven to be 4x more engaging and 3x more effective than traditional, child-only therapy.

Monument Tx is a neuroscience-focused drug development company using digital biomarkers to develop more targeted treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders. Lead program MT1988 is currently in a large patient study in clinical high risk for psychosis individuals to assess its potential to improve cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia and validate its predictive digital biomarker.

Neurofundus is collaborating with psychiatric hospitals in multiple countries to collect and generate multimodal data on thousands of patients with psychiatric disorders (starting with depression). These data will be used to build a foundation model – comprehensively mapping the phenotype and biology of depression patients – to enable personalized treatment trajectories and precision approaches to drug/biomarker discovery.

Nosis is building a new model for substance use care – one focused on building health and vitality, not just stopping use. By combining addiction medicine, advanced diagnostics, therapy, coaching, and lifestyle interventions, we help people heal their brains, rebuild their bodies, and create the conditions for lasting wellbeing. Orbit is building foundation models of cognitive states and conditions, enabling precision mental healthcare.

They are collecting unprecedentedly rich neural data-sets, enabled by their novel brain wearable which can achieve fMRI-comparable resolution at scale. Radicle Science is a healthtech public benefit corporation on a mission to transform the $1T global wellness industry by enabling rigorous science at unprecedented speed, scale, and precision.

By fusing AI, consumer science, and massively scalable real world clinical trials, Radicle is enabling a new generation of proven, precision nonprescription treatments–accessible to all. SocialRx (formerly known as Art Pharmacy) is a leading social prescribing platform that helps health plans, employers, and universities tackle the growing crisis of loneliness and mental health through arts, culture, and nature.

By combining technology, human-centered care navigation, and evidence-based models, SocialRx transforms community connection into measurable improvements in mental well-being and belonging across the United States.

Vitalic is a geriatric-specialized and team-based behavioral health practice that uniquely provides the proactive outreach and engagement required to enroll and treat the often reluctant 65+members into behavioral health care that is proven to improve clinical outcomes while reducing total cost of care.

The People Powering the One Mind Accelerator The One Mind Accelerator mentor and advisory network represents leaders and subject-matter experts across the mental health ecosystem and beyond, including payers, providers, employers, investors, operators, researchers, policy and advocacy groups, and lived experience advocates.

The network also draws from within One Mind, key members of our Board, Scientific Advisory Board, executive team, One Mind funded scientists, and One Mind Accelerator Alumni.

Author, Entrepreneur, Investor Former Director, NIMH; Co-Founder & Executive Chair, Vanna Health General Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Satori Neuro Partner & Co-Founder at Floodgate Husseini Manji, MD, FRCPC Former Global Therapeutic Head for Neuroscience at Janssen; President and CEO, Science for Minds, LLC; Professor, Oxford University; Visiting Professor, Duke University Biopharma and Medical Device Industry Council Partner, Greymatter Capital Founding Partner of GreyMatter VP, Behavioral Health and Specialty Services, Kaiser Permanente View All Mentors and Advisors The One Mind Accelerator is powered by generous philanthropic contributions from private donors, foundations, and corporations who share our commitment to improving the lives of people facing mental health challenges.

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