MindTech

Rufus Mitchell-Heggs is the Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Connectome - a neurotechnology company transforming how we understand and optimise the human brain. Connectome’s mission is to make advanced brain insights accessible to everyone , starting with a non-invasive scan, and over time building the world’s largest longitudinal brain dataset. In this episode, we discuss how Rufus a...

Neurodivergence can be a superpower if supported appropriately. In fact, 40-50% of founders are neurodivergent , indicating its potential for creativity and innovation. However, many are held back by the challenges that come with it. Steph Hamill is solving this problem as the Co-Founder of Divergence Supplements . Their lead product, Gamma Focus, is the first natural superblend specifically formu...

In children, existing treatments for depression are effective in only 60% of cases. After treatment, 50 - 75% experience a relapse. Why are these outcomes so poor? And how can we make progress? In this episode, we answer these questions and discuss: 3 overlooked factors contributing to young people’s mental health How parents can better support their children through mental health challenges How t...

Clare Kennedy Purvis is a Stanford-trained clinical psychologist who has applied her understanding of the mind to building digital mental health interventions all throughout her career, including as the: VP of Clinical Product & Content Development at Headspace Clinical Product Lead in the Mental Health Centre of Excellence at Google Head of Clinic Product at Lantern Chief Product Officer at M...

Modelling the brain as a biological computer?! Dr Rick Adams is a Consultant Psychiatrist, widely published researcher, and a Future Leaders Fellow in the UCL Department of Computer Science and Division of Psychiatry. Rick is a leader in the field of Computational Psychiatry, a discipline applying computational methods to understanding psychiatric problems. He completed a PhD in this niche, and no...

Are we creating technologies that support: Connection or division? Addiction or isolation? Mindfulness or distraction? Wisdom Ventures support a new generation of companies that do the former, in a world where technology has often achieved the latter. After 25+ years at Google, Microsoft, and Cisco, Ruchika Sikri is accelerating the growth of mindfulness, compassion, and wellness platforms as a Pa...

How can we use technology as a bridge, not a barrier, to human connection? Dr Mark Cox is a Co-Founder of Lumi, a startup that answers this question by using technology to help families reconnect through a blend of digital and real-world experiences . Mark is an NHS Doctor with 5 years of clinical experience, currently working part-time in A&E while he builds Lumi. Listen to learn: The importa...

Professor Dasha Nicholls leads the Child and Adolescent Mental Health research team in the Division of Psychiatry at Imperial College London. Her team’s research improves understanding of and interventions for children and young people with eating disorders and those living at higher weight . This episode stands out as a special one to me, given the career path that Professor Nicholls has forged -...

How do we close the gap between intention and action? A key problem for anyone trying to change behavior for the better. Aline Holzwarth invests her brainpower in solving this problem, earning many impressive stripes as an applied behavioral scientist along the way, such as:  Behavioral Science Lead in the Health AI team at Apple Head of Behavioral Science at Pattern Health - a digital health plat...

Dr-Julian is a startup taking on what the legendary investor Paul Graham would describe as ‘Schlep blindness’, which refers to the tendency to overlook significant yet unglamorous problems (Schleps) because they don’t offer the immediate gratification of simpler, more straightforward challenges. In mental health, one of these important yet tedious problems is the long waiting lists for people seek...

Startups led by founders who have lived through the very experiences that they later come to solve hold a special place in all our hearts. Mind Data is a bright example of this. Sean Ruane, the Founder and CEO, overcame suicidal depression after eventually having therapy. Now, Sean dedicates his life to helping others gain insight into their mind and access the support they need by leveraging the...

Instead of trying to build one almighty app to improve our wellbeing, Professor Calvo has chosen to focus his efforts on making wellbeing a priority in every technology. As the Director of the Wellbeing Technologies Lab at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Co-lead for Imperial College London of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and the co-author of Positive Computing, Pro...

Games capture our attention like nothing else. Immersed within a world and on a mission, we are engaged and entertained - but can games also train us to develop a healthier mind? AnimaSelf seeks to answer this question with a resounding YES with an app that makes mental health fun with games and activities that each deliver a specific form of therapy. Dr Frank Thornton-Wood , the Co-founder and CE...

Spirituality is often thought of as a mystical philosophy reserved for hippies and fortune-tellers. The PATH exists to change this and make spiritual health relevant to us all by helping people work through the deeper questions in life and discover their own beliefs and values. Danny Sanchez (formerly at Facebook/Meta) is building the world’s first spiritual health platform as the Founder and CEO...

Min Lee is the Co-founder and CEO of Humin - an app that helps you better understand your mood using data collected from your smartphone and smartwatch . These devices collect a wealth of data about us, and Humin organises all that to give you insight into your mind. In her teenage years, Min suffered from an eating disorder, which now serves as fuel for her mission to improve mental health with H...

Michel Birnbaum is the Co-founder and CEO of Mindsigns Health™: a cloud-based platform that assesses brain health with two AI-enabled products: 1) NeuroBrowser™ - automatically interprets EEGs for the brain 2) GenMind™ - monitors mental health from smartphone data I have had the privilege of being an advisor to Mindsigns Health since 2022, and it has been an honour to contribute to such a technolo...

Neil Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Mettle - the first mental fitness toolkit made just for men. Neil has co-founded Mettle with the legendary survivalist and adventurer Bear Grylls, with many more stars in their team. Their mission is to enable men to optimise their performance in all aspects of their life by creating a digital home for men’s mental fitness. Mettle launched in November 2023,...