Mental health startup InnerHour has raised $5.2 million from Lightbox and others. This is one of the largest fundraises in the Indian mental health space to date.
InnerHour will use this funding to scale its technology-led mental health platform, as it gets set to serve a section of the 200 million Indians currently suffering from mental health conditions.
InnerHour, a mental health platform has raised $5.2 million from venture capital firm Lightbox, making this one of the largest fundraisings in the Indian mental health ecosystem to date. Lightbox led the funding with an investment of $4.5 million. Other angel investors who participated included Capricorn Ventures & Micasa Investments (Singapore), Pankaj Sahni, CEO Medanta–The Medicity Hospitals, and Hitesh Oberoi, CEO & MD, Info Edge India Pvt. Ltd.
InnerHour will use the funding to scale its technology-led mental health platform to serve over 200 million Indians living with mental illnesses. According to the statement shared by the company, in this next phase of development, Dr. Amit Malik, Founder, and CEO of InnerHour is joined by Co-founder Neha Kirpal as they build a full-stack offering focused on the varying needs of individual users across the entire care continuum.
