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Transhuman Inc.
Transhuman Inc. is a mental health and emotionAI research and development company founded in 2014 by Amanda Johnstone and Dr. Roy Sugarman. Best known for its free peer-support check-in app Be A Looper, which operated in 87 countries, the company builds proprietary EmotionAI technologies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Bodies (IoB), and human emotion. Its focus is on suicide prevention, emotional communication, and human-to-computer relationships.
IPMD, Inc.
IPMD, Inc. is a San Mateo-based emotional AI company building software that reads human feelings from faces, voice, and language. Its flagship platform, Project M - now evolving into EchoAI - uses custom CNN-based deep learning to classify eight core emotions across roughly 400,000 intensity variations, reporting up to 96% ROC/AUC accuracy. Founded in 2016 out of UC Berkeley after the loss of a student to depression, IPMD applies its 'human-centered' emotional AI to telemedicine, mental-health support, and hiring, and is pursuing an FDA-regulated medical-device pathway.
Min Lee
Min Lee is the founder, CEO and president of IPMD, Inc., a San Mateo emotional-AI company born at UC Berkeley in 2016. He led the build of EchoAI (also known as Project M), a human-centered emotional-AI platform that reads facial micro-expressions, tone, and language to classify human emotion with a reported 96% comprehension rate - trained over 130,000 hours by a team of roughly 500 collaborators. In 2025 he was named a Visionary CEO in Emotional AI by Business Worldwide Magazine.