The Path, founded by Tony Robbins and Calm alums, hopes to offer safer AI therapy
The Path is a new AI therapy app co-founded by Anson Whitmer and motivational speaker Tony Robbins. The app aims to provide personalized mental health support using specially trained AI, distinguishing itself from typical consumer chatbots. It has raised $14.3 million in seed funding and is currently free for users as it develops its platform.
- ▪The Path was inspired by the success of a feature in the Mental app that utilized AI interactive audio.
- ▪Tony Robbins joined as a co-founder after becoming enthusiastic about the startup's potential.
- ▪The app's AI model has achieved a score of 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, significantly higher than typical consumer bots.
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When the founders of a mental health app for men called Mental saw that one feature — AI interactive audio — was resonating wildly with their users, they knew they were onto something. And so the idea for a new, and hopefully safer, kind of AI therapy app was born, which they called The Path, co-founder and CEO Anson Whitmer tells TechCrunch. Then famed author and motivational speaker Tony Robbins grew so enamored with this startup; he scooched in as a co-founder. The Path has now raised $14.3 million in seed funding led by Prime Movers Lab (where Robbins is a partner), with participation from speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, boxer Deontay Wilder, and Designer Fund.
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