Venture Summary
“Sanitas Health was founded with the mission of making mental health services and support radically accessible and inclusive for underserved BIPOC populations. The Sanitas App is a psychology-based language analysis platform for understanding human emotions, personalities, motivations, and psychology from everyday language. Our goal is to facilitate improvement in mental health outcomes for under-resourced and diverse identifying populations.
We leverage AI and Natural Language Processing to create a data-driven platform specifically designed to serve the mental health needs of BIPOC populations. Our focus is improving mental health outcomes and creating greater care access for marginalized populations. Unlike any would-be competitors, is a “therapy last” vs. “therapy first” solution. At Sanitas, we offer moderated peer-to-peer support groups and text-based coaching, and then if therapy is still needed, we provide culturally relevant therapists.
We are preventive care. We address the supply and demand and “waiting room” problem by supporting people today, in their communities, and providing support prior to therapy and/or in between appointments. Our aim is to catch people before they are in crisis. Sanitas will change the landscape for mental health support and services for BIPOC and Medicaid populations.”
Accelerator Participant
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“As a healthcare technologist, Rodney observed that inequity in mental healthcare needs innovative solutions to remove barriers to care. As a researcher, he reviewed countless peer-reviewed papers indicating a correlation between greater access to care and improved health outcomes; but finding limited commercialization efforts, he saw the opportunity to create Sanitas Health in 2021.”
