As a platform for mental and behavioral health innovation, we connect our community to peer expertise, validated research, and strategic partnerships that help ideas grow and create real impact. Participation in nest is currently free of charge, making it accessible to anyone who wants to contribute and learn.

We exist because meaningful innovation shouldn’t happen in isolation. Our curated community helps ensure that new solutions reach the people who need them, while founders gain the support, connections, and insights needed to navigate this complex landscape with confidence.

The community for mental health innovation.

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Building Tomorrow's Mental Health Ecosystem

Founders in our network are shaping the future of mental health. We bring together innovators transforming care through technology, like AI tools, digital therapies, predictive data, and immersive treatments. Our members don’t just work in the field; they lead it.

nest connects innovators across mental health tech. From researchers and startup founders to investors and policymakers. We speed up progress by linking partners, sharing knowledge from labs to real-world use, and gathering resources to support effective solutions worldwide.

Through virtual and live events, we create moments where experts from different fields meet: Where science, technology, care, and business join to turn ideas into real change.

Our Focus Areas

We concentrate our resources where innovation meets urgent need, guided by member insights and market intelligence.

  • Evidence-based solutions shouldn't take decades to reach the people who need them.

    We accelerate the path from validation to implementation, ensuring breakthrough interventions move swiftly from research settings to real-world applications. Through our network, proven solutions gain the partnerships, funding, and regulatory support needed to scale across populations and platforms, transforming isolated successes into accessible standards of care.

  • The future of mental health lies at the intersection of human insight and technological capability.

    We champion founders leveraging AI for personalized interventions, VR/AR for exposure therapies, biomarkers for predictive care, and ambient sensing for continuous support. Our members aren't just digitizing existing models, they're creating entirely new modalities that adapt to individual needs, predict crisis points, and deliver interventions with unprecedented precision and scale.

  • The best mental health solution is the one people actually use.

    We prioritize innovations that solve healthcare's hardest problem: sustained engagement. Our members are pioneering adaptive systems that anticipate drop-off, personalized retention strategies that improve outcomes, and care models that integrate seamlessly into daily life. These aren't just better apps: They're fundamentally reimagined support systems that work because they understand how humans actually behave.

 FAQs

  • At nest, we’re creating a welcoming space for people working in digital mental health to meet, talk, and learn from each other. We bring together founders and leaders to share experiences, ideas, and support in a way that feels natural and genuine. Even though nest is membership-based, there are no fees, and no pressure to participate in any specific way.

    We keep things informal on purpose so people feel comfortable and heard. By staying flexible, we can truly listen to what the community needs and grow together over time. It’s about honest conversations, curiosity, and supporting one another in a meaningful way.

  • Founders, CEOs, COOs, and other senior leaders of digital mental health startups, plus strategic partners, investors, accelerators, and service providers who actively support the ecosystem.


  • Submit the online application. Our membership team conducts a quick eligibility review after which we will contact you.


  • Benefits include an exclusive peer network, curated events, policy and regulatory updates, best-practice playbooks, interoperability and standards resources, collaboration opportunities, and member discounts with partners and sponsors.

  • Our goal is to run annual flagship conferences, quarterly member meetups, monthly webinars, and topic-focused forums, all designed to foster meaningful connections and collaborative initiatives. To achieve this, we are actively seeking support and input from our members.

  • Join one of our committees (Programs, Membership, Events), or become a founding member to shape the future of nest and propose strategic collaborations. Members can also volunteer for speaker opportunities.

  • We only collect your email address if you choose to sign up or contact us. We use it only to share nest updates and community activities. We don’t sell or share your data. You can unsubscribe or ask us to delete your email at any time.
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Ready to Shape the Future of Mental Health?

nest membership is open to founders, researchers, clinicians, and innovators driving meaningful change in mental health technology and treatment.

If you're building solutions that matter, developing breakthrough interventions, or scaling proven approaches, we want to hear from you.

Apply to join a community where your expertise amplifies collective impact.