GIMBHI’s daily mental health update - 10/17/25

🎒 Marble Health raises $15.5M to expand school-based virtual therapy (Jessica Hagen, MobiHealthNews) — 10/15/25
TL;DR: Funding supports youth mental health platform that links schools, therapists, and families with AI tools

👨‍👩‍👧 Manatee acquires Happypillar to expand family mental health tools (Newswire) — 10/17/25
TL;DR: Merger combines virtual therapy and AI parent-child coaching to scale accessible family-centered care nationwide

🧒 Hazel Health appoints new CEO and acquires 2 youth startups (Chris Larson, Behavioral Health Business) — 10/14/25
TL;DR: Hazel buys Little Otter and BeMe Health while naming Iyah Romm CEO to deepen pediatric mental health services

🧠 Everbright Health raises $7M to scale AI mental health ops (Arushi Agarwal, Indian Startup Times) — 10/16/25
TL;DR: Funding supports AI platform that helps providers deliver advanced treatments like TMS and SPRAVATO at scale

🤖 Onos Health raises $6.3M to modernize behavioral health for insurers (Amit Chowdhry, Pulse 2.0) — 10/15/25
TL;DR: AI platform streamlines payer decision-making to cut waste and improve behavioral health care alignment

👧 Triplemoon raises $3.5M to expand pediatric virtual mental health (Business Wire) — 10/16/25
TL;DR: Seed funding supports tech-enabled collaborative care model integrated into primary care clinics for children and families

🧪 Exin Therapeutics invests ₱1.45B to build PH neurotherapeutics lab (Jordeene B. Lagare, Philippine Daily Inquirer) — 10/18/25
TL;DR: U.S. biotech to develop AI-driven brain disorder therapies and create local R&D jobs in the Philippines

🧠 Headspace CEO focuses on AI to reshape mental healthcare (Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, Endpoints News) — 10/14/25
TL;DR: Headspace explores AI-driven tools and strategy changes to modernize mental health delivery under new leadership