Insurance-based mental healthcare provider Heading, specializing in treating patients with depression and trauma has raised $4.5 million in a Series A extension round. Leading the investment are Gron Ventures and Jam Fund, with additional support from the One Mind Accelerator, Thiel Capital, Mystic Ventures, Gaingels, and Antifund. This funding will empower Heading to scale into new markets and invest in its care delivery and analytics platform.
“A segregated and one-dimensional mental health system has failed patients, many who wait too long to experience care that offers real and lasting relief. We’re proud to have the support of like-minded investors who believe this needs to change,” shared Heading CEO & Founder, Simon Tankel. “Heading’s comprehensive, patient-first approach is supercharged for outcomes – faster. Personalized, combination-service care plans under one roof and accessible through insurance plans, rapidly improves the quality of life for our patients and their loved ones.”
Heading is a tech-enabled mental health care provider that urgently drives towards optimal outcomes for patients experiencing severe depression and trauma, particularly those that have been failed by past encounters within the medical system. Prioritizing interventions with the highest probability of clinical outcomes, such as Spravato®, ketamine, and TMS as well as MDMA and psilocybin if approved, Heading clinicians monitor and integrate the latest research with real-time patient measurements to lower total cost of care, delivering value to health plans partners and broad access to those seeking the highest quality affordable care.
Heading drives patient outcomes through proprietary pathways incorporating psychotherapy, psychiatry, and nutrition together with interventional modalities, with plans for psychedelic therapeutics in the approval pipeline. With recent technology hire Maxim Osipov holding a PhD in Computational Psychiatry, Heading’s team are industry-veterans in clear-minded approaches to effective mental healthcare that prioritizes impact for those who need it most.
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