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Sonia

San Francisco, CA, USA6+ employeesSeed raised
AI Therapy

AI Therapy

YC W24

About the Company

Our sole focus 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. After 12 months of exploring all sorts of architectures, form factors, and approaches, we have recently had a major breakthrough. As of a few weeks ago, we now have a version with which we are starting to see very significant clinical outcomes in the form of GAD-7 (anxiety score) reductions even just after 2 weeks of using Sonia. We are receiving messages daily of how it’s changing people’s lives. We’re just at the start and there is still so much to do and build. Now it’s time to move fast and scale the team.

Founders

Chris Aeberli
Chris Aeberli

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 Klebe
Dustin Klebe

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 Wolf
Lukas Wolf

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.

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