Andreessen Horowitz January 14, 2025
Today, we’re proud to announce we’ve led the Series A for Slingshot, the world’s first foundation model for psychology. This brings the total capital raised for the company to $40 million.
Mental health has never been worse. While modern life is better than historical times on most dimensions, we’re increasingly lonely, sad, and anxious. Half of the world’s population will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. We all deserve to be happier, but the reality is we will never have enough humans to assist everyone who needs help.
We’ve always known that we needed technology to help us solve the problem. But for years, we looked at mental health chatbots and thought “who wants to talk with a...