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A technology and media company that developed a mobile video-sharing application for young users, focused on unedited, authentic short-form video.
Beme was a New York City-based technology and digital media company that developed a mobile application for sharing short, unedited video clips without digital filters or video previews. Prior to its corporate acquisition, the social media platform generated approximately 1.2 million total user downloads and secured early venture capital backing from prominent investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Gary Vaynerchuk. In November 2016, the multinational news network CNN acquired the technology startup for a reported $25 million to create an internal digital news brand targeting younger millennial and Generation Z audiences. Following this strategic acquisition, the original video application was officially shut down in January 2017, and the broader digital media division ultimately ceased operations in January 2018 with a remaining staff of approximately 22 employees. Beme was originally founded in 2015 by Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett.
Beme has raised $23.4M across 5 funding rounds.
Beme has raised $23.4M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Beme has raised $23.4M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $12.0M BeMe Health - Other Equity in August 2024.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2024 | $12M Venture Round | — | — | Announced |
| Nov 14, 2023 | $1.5M Venture Round | Blue Cross And Blue Shield OF Kansas | — | Announced |
| Nov 5, 2021 | $7M Seed | Flare Capital Partners, Polaris Partners | — | Announced |
| Sep 28, 2021 | $880K Pre Seed | — | — | Announced |
| Jul 1, 2015 | $2M Seed | Lightspeed Venture Partners | Eniac Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Pareto Holdings, Stellar Capital, Alexander Zhuravlev, Alex Zhuravlev, Mandeep Singh | Announced |
BeMe is a technology company developing a mobile mental health platform tailored for teens and young adults aged 13-18, offering mood tracking, personalized real-time coaching, science-backed activities, and crisis support.[2][3][5] It addresses adolescent mental health challenges through an engaging, social media-inspired app that combines digital tools with human support, serving individuals, schools, health plans, and employers while emphasizing privacy with no ads or data sales.[2][3][5] The company has raised $27.2M in funding, including a $12.5M round about 9 months ago, and remains in active seed-to-IV VC stage with strong growth momentum indicated by a rising Mosaic Score.[2]
BeMe was founded in 2014 by a cross-disciplinary team of clinicians, researchers in adolescent mental health, experts in teen social media, privacy, and technology—including two clinical psychologists and a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist.[3] The idea emerged from recognizing the shortage of mental health providers for youth (e.g., fewer than 1,135 child psychiatrists for 10 million California youth under 18) and the need for accessible, engaging digital solutions amid rising behavioral health investments like California's $4B+ Student Behavioral Health Incentive Program (SBHIP).[3] Early traction built through teen-informed design via an active Teen Advisory Board, partnerships like with California Health Care Foundation for Latino/x youth pilots and Medi-Cal integrations, evolving into a platform blending mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, and life skills.[2][3]
(Note: Search results also reference a separate 2014 "Beme" social video-sharing app by Scott Cousino and Casey Neistat, focused on authentic sharing via New York-based media-tech with $2.6M funding and 22 employees, but current active entity matching "Beme" operations aligns with BeMe's health platform at www.beme.com.)[1][4][5]
BeMe rides the surging demand for digital mental health solutions amid a teen wellness crisis, exacerbated by post-pandemic anxiety/depression rates and provider shortages, timed perfectly with $4B+ state investments like California's SBHIP funding tech-driven behavioral health for schools and Medi-Cal.[3] Market forces favoring it include openness to novel apps by districts/health plans, rising VC in female-founded healthtech (noted in South Florida trends), and a shift to scalable, phone-based care over in-person limits.[2][3] It influences the ecosystem by pioneering teen-specific platforms, informing policy pilots, and bridging gaps for underserved groups like Latino/x youth, potentially accelerating adoption of hybrid digital-human mental health models.[3]
BeMe is poised for expansion through deeper SBHIP integrations, broader employer/school partnerships, and enhanced features like expanded coaching pathways amid ongoing teen mental health funding surges.[2][3] Trends shaping it include AI-personalized wellness, regulatory pushes for youth data privacy, and telehealth normalization, potentially evolving its influence from niche teen app to standard in adolescent care ecosystems—building on recent $12.5M raise and Mosaic Score gains to capture a fragment of the multibillion behavioral health market.[2] This positions BeMe to redefine accessible youth support, much like its core mission of meeting digital natives where they thrive.
Beme has raised $23.4M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Beme's investors include Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Flare Capital Partners, Polaris Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ENIAC Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Pareto Holdings, Stellar Capital, Alexander Zhuravlev, Alex Zhuravlev, Mandeep Singh.