Options MD

📢 Welcome to the Level Up Ventures Startup Spotlight Series, ✨ where we feature interviews with the inspiring entrepreneurs behind our portfolio companies. First up is Options MD, a groundbreaking telehealth platform that's changing the game for individuals battling severe and treatment-resistant mental illnesses. Their AI-powered tool, Thalamus MD, developed by psychiatric researchers at Harvard, UCSF, and Carnegie Mellon Universities, offers personalized treatment recommendations and diagnostic suggestions. We're excited about the difference Options MD is making with an impressive 88% rebooking rate and a 27% patient remission rate which is 2x higher than industry average for treatment-resistant depression. By the way, Options MD is currently fundraising and we're happy to make any intros or provide additional info upon request. 🤝 About Level Up Ventures: Level Up Ventures is a Hearst-backed investment vehicle launched in 2021 with a mission to help close the racial wealth gap. We invest in early-stage, tech-enabled startups led by Black and Latino founders, providing them with capital and the support of our Level Up Scout network, comprising professionals from across Hearst’s global businesses. Level Up Ventures is currently investing—please visit our website to check out our investment criteria and recommend a great startup today! 📺 Watch the full interview and be sure to share with your networks! #InvestInTheFuture #BlackAndLatinoFounders #Telehealth Morgan Hewett Kyle Pierce

"Youth Therapy Startups Raise Millions – 💛 Clayful Gets $7M, Joon Care $6M" Also featured in our latest funding roundup: — You Are Accountable — Options MD — CLINICOM — Ciba Health #mentalhealth #addictiontreatment #virtualhealth #telehealth #valuebasedcare #startups By Morgan Gonzales https://lnkd.in/epNFzVEE

tl;dr A huge congrats to the AI Innovation class (Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science) inside Dr Michael Shamos' MS #AI program [pictured at our Topgolf Fall break adventure with special guests Kit Mueller and Justin Mastrangelo] We were incredibly fortunate to work with Options MD, John Deere , SGK, BNY Mellon x 2, and LUCA.ai this semester to explore how #artificialintelligence is perhaps the largest enabler of value creation we have seen, at least recently. If you are reading this and want to look at Capstone projects in 2024/2025 please reach out. Now, the most important part - the incredible students who experienced what probably felt like a never ending set of moments leading to a #growthmindset All of the brilliant minds I hope you will consider saying hello to (calling all #recruiters ): Aishwarya Agrawal - Krisha Bhambani - Tanya Bhatnagar - Noel DSouza - Adhya Dagar - Ritu Gala - Saumya G. - Marlies Goes - Dan Hoskins - Pavitra Kadiyala - Sayali Kandarkar - Jonah Kornberg - Rucha Kulkarni - Samuel Lin - Harshit Mehrotra - Ameya Morbale - Karthik Natarajan - Odemuno P. Ogelohwohor - Sharang Pai - Saloni Parekh - Boyi Qian - Meghana A Rajeev - Jeel Shah - Danyating (Amanda) Shen - Jiasheng Sheng - Eesha Shetty - Advaith Sridhar - Harini Subramanyan - Moulya Sudhir - Cehong Wang - Vinay Nair Shoutout to all of these future leaders, the impact you will have is hard to imagine but incredibly important. Please tag all of the folks that I missed. #ai #aiadvancements #aiautomation #artificialintelligence #generativeartificialintelligence #naturallanguageprocessing #ml #machinelearning #machinevision #techrecruitment #airecruitment