billy’s daily mental health startup news - 9/2/25

📊 WHO: Over 1B people live with mental disorders worldwide (World Health Organization) – 9/2/25
Why it’s interesting: Highlights scale of unmet mental health needs and global resource gaps

🩺 Sheppard Pratt explores AI to ease psychiatry’s administrative burden (Sheppard Pratt Insights) – 1/10/25
Why it’s interesting: Shows how psychiatrists weigh AI for documentation, privacy, and patient access

😴 Seluna raises €752k for AI tool diagnosing kids’ sleep apnoea (David Cendon Garcia, EU-Startups) – 8/28/25
Why it’s interesting: First NHS trial of AI software built for pediatric sleep diagnostics

🗣️ Vocal Image raises $3.6M for AI voice coaching app (Anna Heim, TechCrunch) – 8/29/25
Why it’s interesting: Shows demand for AI-based communication training and its growing user adoption

🤖 South Korea deploys AI dolls for elderly health monitoring (Shiling, 36Kr) – 9/1/25
Why it’s interesting: Korean government uses AI companions to address elderly loneliness and care shortages

🧒 Pandemic-era pediatric mental health startups Brightline, InStride still growing (Cassie McGrath, Healthcare Brew) – 8/26/25
Why it’s interesting: Shows how Covid-era startups adapted with telehealth to expand youth mental health access

🛑 Therapists caught secretly using ChatGPT during client sessions (Danzhu Hu, MIT Technology Review) – 9/2/25
Why it’s interesting: Raises privacy and trust issues in psychotherapy as therapists adopt AI

⚖️ Ex-Ontrak CEO sentenced over misuse of trading plans (Amanda Gerut, Fortune via Yahoo Finance) – 6/24/25
Why it’s interesting: First criminal conviction tied solely to Rule 10b5-1 trading plans

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