Frankie Health raises $1.25m for its mental wellbeing app
Frankie Health co-founder James McGann. Image: Frankie Health
The Dublin start-up will invest the new funds in adding 20 new staff to its engineering, design and marketing teams.
Mental health app Frankie Health has raised $1.25m in a seed funding round led by Hong Kong firm E15 VC.
Frankie Health, founded by James McGann and Seb Poole, is a mental health app that connects a business’s employees with therapists to deliver personalised exercises to reduce stress and anxiety.
The platform is free for therapists to use, with sessions and exercises protected with end-to-end encryption.
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Irish-based start-up Frankie Health has raised $1.25m in funding - and plans to add 20 remote roles to its business in the next year as part of its expansion plans.
Frankie Health aims to work with organisations to support employee mental health, offering personalised exercises and online access to qualified therapists.
Today it announced it had closed a $1.25m investment round, led by Hong Kong-based venture capital firm E15 VC. What we re trying to do at Frankie Health is recognise that all of our mental health is changing all the time, based on our lives and we try to adapt to that, co-founder James McGann told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland. We offer personalised, evidence-based exercises that can be accessed from anywhere.