Now&Me, a Delhi-based mental health startup, has raised $1 million in seed funding led by Saama Capital and Whiteboard Capital.
The startup is working on how people around the world seek mental health support through a free community platform. The funds will be used to grow the team, create new products, and focus on community outreach.
The startup's long-term goal is to make mental health a priority for everyone by providing solutions that make it easier to access and raise awareness about it.
In 2019, Bani Singh and Drishti Gupta founded Now&Me, a website where people can come and talk about their problems, feelings, mental health issues, and literally anything else on their minds or heart. Bani came up with the idea for the product and built the prototype. In 2020, Nitesh Kumar Niranjan joined as a tech co-founder. The founders stated collect in a press release issued by the company.
"Mental health concerns affect almost 1 billion people globally. Tackling a problem as colossal as that required us to go where no one had ever even thought of going before. In fact, Now&Me has, and continues to be an instrumental solution to the rising mental health concerns, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic."
Anshu Prasher, Whiteboard Capital, said, "Though the last year has brought a lot of attention to mental health issues, most of the conversation around mental health has been centred around specialist help or support groups which is typically a sign of serious underlying conditions."
He added, "At Now&Me, Drishti and Bani are working towards normalising peer group conversations around mental health at a much earlier stage by building a safe, open and free community hopefully helping people share without any fear of being judged. We are excited to be a part of this mission to help reduce serious mental health issues and wish the team luck on their journey ahead."
