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Arcade Therapeutics
Arcade Therapeutics is a New York-based digital therapeutics company that builds clinically validated mobile games to treat mental illness. Founded by healthcare entrepreneur Raj Amin and neuroscientist Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, the company embeds a research-backed technique called attention bias modification into engaging games, starting with StarStarter for anxiety. Its lead prescription product, ABM-01, is pursuing FDA submission as one of the first game-based treatments for social anxiety disorder, with a pipeline extending to depression, addiction, and other conditions.
Jesse Pickard
Jesse Pickard is the Founder and CEO of The Mind Company (formerly Elevate Labs), the studio behind Elevate (Apple's App of the Year 2014), Balance (Google's App of the Year 2021), and Spark - a portfolio of science-backed mental fitness apps with over 80 million downloads. A designer-turned-entrepreneur, Pickard co-founded language learning startup MindSnacks in 2010 before pivoting to build Elevate in 2014, pioneering the consumer mental fitness category. He is also an Investing Partner at Volo Ventures.
Lumos Labs (Lumosity)
Lumos Labs is the San Francisco company behind Lumosity, the brain-training app that turned cognitive exercises into a daily habit for more than 100 million people. Founded in 2005 by Kunal Sarkar, Michael Scanlon, and David Drescher, Lumosity packages neuropsychology-inspired tasks - memory, attention, processing speed, problem solving, flexibility - into short, gamified workouts. Its database of player performance, the Human Cognition Project, has fueled collaborations with researchers at Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge, and beyond.