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.
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.