Jimini Health

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.

Chatbots can talk like therapists, but should they be used that way? One startup is betting the real opportunity lies in incorporating artificial intelligence into a behavioral health clinical team.

Startup Jimini Health has raised $17 million in seed funding as it seeks to launch its mental health AI platform Sage with large behavioral health organizations. The product interacts with patients continuously while they’re in treatment, under the supervision of a clinician.

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Investors include M13, Town Hall Ventures, LionBird, Zetta Venture Partners, and OneMind. Jimini has raised $25 million to date.

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