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YouROK Corp. offers a digital platform addressing the youth mental health crisis. Its primary offering is an app utilizing gamified, evidence-informed interventions to equip young people with essential coping skills. This solution aims to prevent mental health issues and aid in managing conditions between therapy sessions. The platform provides clinicians with data for intervention assessment and enhanced patient understanding.
Patrina Mack founded YouROK in 2017, inspired by her son's mental health journey. As a seasoned product development executive, Mack recognized the urgent need for a scalable, engaging adolescent mental health solution. She formed a cross-disciplinary team, including psychologists, neuroscientists, and AI experts, to develop the platform.
The YouROK app empowers youth with emotional self-care tools, while also providing clinicians with actionable data. It supports schools and healthcare systems facing pediatric mental health demands. YouROK's vision is to scale accessible, youth-friendly mental health services, enabling more children to thrive regardless of their diagnosis.
YouROK has raised $75K across 1 funding round.
YouROK has raised $75K in total across 1 funding round.
YouROK has raised $75K in total across 1 funding round.
YouROK's investors include Expert Dojo.
YouROK Corp. is a technology company developing K'Bro, a mobile app that builds emotional resiliency in adolescents through gamified, evidence-based activities to prevent mental health issues. The platform serves schools, youth, and mental health providers by offering real-time emotional state detection via AI-driven assessments, anonymous sharing, and interventions like emotional awareness, self-determination, self-advocacy, and self-esteem tools[1][2][4][6]. It solves the adolescent mental health crisis by shifting from pathology-focused treatments to proactive prevention, using proprietary deep learning algorithms (recurrent bi-directional LSTM neural networks) to analyze responses and text for the "Am I OK?" Index, enabling remote monitoring, risk stratification, population health management, and emergency alerts[1][4][6]. Early traction includes an internal pilot with 2800 users and the 2019 Innovation Lab Impact Award from the American Psychiatric Association[4][6].
YouROK was founded by Patrina Mack (CEO), based in Menlo Park, with a background as a past board member of the Mental Research Institute, alongside a team motivated by personal and family experiences with mental health challenges[1][6]. The idea emerged from combining user-centered design by an award-winning mobile game developer, youth input, and evidence-informed research from psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers to create K'Bro as a game-like app for real-time assessment and self-care[2][6]. Pivotal early moments include winning the 2019 Innovation Lab Impact Award for its youth-informed, scalable approach to emotional resiliency, praised by Stanford's Nina Vasan, MD, MBA, and an internal pilot with 2800 users demonstrating efficacy[4][6].
YouROK rides the trend of AI-powered preventive mental health tech for youth, addressing the adolescent mental health crisis amid rising demand for scalable, digital-native solutions in schools and telehealth[1][4][6]. Timing aligns with post-pandemic awareness of early intervention needs, where frequent, non-stigmatizing tools outperform reactive pathology models, supported by market forces like AI advancements in emotional analytics and school resource constraints[1][4]. It influences the ecosystem by providing population-level insights to payers and educators, fostering a shift toward resiliency-building platforms that integrate with crisis resources and optimize interventions[4][6].
YouROK is poised to expand K'Bro's adoption in schools and beyond, leveraging AI enhancements for broader emotional health tracking and partnerships with payers for population-scale prevention. Trends like AI-driven personalization in youth mental health and hybrid school tech stacks will accelerate growth, potentially evolving its influence toward global standards in proactive adolescent care. This positions YouROK as a leader in transforming mental health from crisis response to resilient futures, building on its prevention-focused foundation[1][4][6].
YouROK has raised $75K across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $75K Seed in January 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2022 | $75K Seed | Expert Dojo |