1. GINGER.IO
A digital health technology company working to build mental health innovation into healthcare
With about 30 healthcare partnerships across the country, Ginger.io supports patients with co-morbid depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder
Uses a 3-part, cloud-based platform including smartphones, a behavioral analytics engine, and a provider dashboard to passively track patients’ movement and communication patterns, apply algorithms to generate insights from the data, and then to alert providers when patients need help
Working to drive better health outcomes and alert providers when their patients are at risk; 5 to 15 times better at predicting when patients are at-risk
A care partner to Kaiser Permanente and Novant Health
Research collaborations at Cincinnati Children’s, MIT Medical, UCSF, Partners Healthcare, Duke University, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and UC Davis
Founded in 2011 out of the MIT Media Lab; based in San Francisco and Cambridge
Has raised $28 million to-date and plans to scale up to support more health system relationships