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Slingshot AI

@slingshotai_inc

We're an AI lab building a foundation model for psychology.

Helping people change their minds and lives in the ways they want to.

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linkhttp://slingshot.xyz calendar_today20-09-2023 19:15:28

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Neil Parikh (@neilparikh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to announce that we raised our Series A for @Slingshotai_inc, led by a16z to help advance our mission of using AI to help scale access to mental health care.

Sundeep Peechu (@speechu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The stats around mental health are dire. 5-10K people seek help for every 1 person offering it. This problem is scaling out of control and the only way we’ll be able to tackle it is with technology. Slingshot AI is building a foundation model that is provably increasing

Amy Wu Martin (@amytongwu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Proud to invest in the Slingshot AI Series A. LLMs are great at solving tasks but that’s not how we communicate with our therapists. To create a foundation model for therapy requires data, a unique pipeline for training and tagging, a new eval framework, and more. 🚀🚀

Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/ 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. a16z.com/announcement/i…

Felicis (@felicis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mental health AI must think long-term. Here’s why Slingshot AI is building a foundation model for mental health. Real support needs more than helpful responses. Watch the full conversation between founder & CEO @thecahnartist & Felicis' Sundeep Peechu here: youtube.com/watch?v=Z2JdAd…

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Last week, Harvard Business Review published findings from their 2025 report on generative AI use cases. Across the top 100 use cases, "therapy and companionship" surfaced as the #1 most desired form of Gen AI. This underscores the urgency to help the millions of people who

Last week, Harvard Business Review published findings from their 2025 report on generative AI use cases. Across the top 100 use cases, "therapy and companionship" surfaced as the #1 most desired form of Gen AI. 

This underscores the urgency to help the millions of people who
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AI Therapy is the most desired use of GenAI. People, out of legitimate need, are turning to general purpose models like ChatGPT that are built to tell you what you want to hear or masks bad support in authoritatively sounding therapy speak. The right way to do this work is to

Slingshot AI (@slingshotai_inc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our co-founders, Neil Parikh and Daniel Cahn, had a great time re-connecting with Thomas Insel, MD this week at the One Mind Accelerator closing week. Tom's leadership and deep understanding of mental health is an inspiration to our team. We're always grateful for his insights

Our co-founders, <a href="/neilparikh/">Neil Parikh</a> and <a href="/danielreidcahn/">Daniel Cahn</a>, had a great time re-connecting with <a href="/thomasinselmd/">Thomas Insel, MD</a> this week at the One Mind Accelerator closing week.

Tom's leadership and deep understanding of mental health is an inspiration to our team. We're always grateful for his insights