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Sonia

Winter 2024 · Active

AI Therapy

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2023

Team size: 5

About

Our goal is to build a safe AI therapist clinically as effective as the 99th percentile human therapist and to make mental health support accessible to anyone. Founded by a team of MIT researchers who published 9 papers on AI at conferences like NeurIPS.

Founders

  • Chris AeberliFounder

    Learned to code at ETH Zurich & MIT. Learned to speak and make slides at McKinsey. Also used to play poker professionally, but zero-sum games are pointless so now building an AI to make people happier. Originally from Switzerland :)

  • Dustin KlebeFounder

    I graduated from ETH Zurich with a degree in Computer Science and conducted AI research at MIT in Boston. Previously, I worked as the first ML engineer at the Series B educational tech startup Knowunity and served as president of the German Excellence Scholarship KAS.

  • Lukas WolfFounder

    I studied CS at ETH and MIT spending most of my time on research in AI and NLP. Worked in research labs (ETH, MIT), at corps (BMW), and startups.