Ooca, a provider of virtual mental health care services in Thailand, received Series A funding from Bangkok Dusit Medical Services.
With new funds, Ooca aims to make mental health care easily accessible to people across Thailand.
Commenting on the funding news, Dr. Kanpassorn (Eix) Suriyasangpetch, the Founder of Ooca, said: “Ooca is the first and largest digital mental wellness platform in Thailand that provides counseling services with psychiatrists and psychologists online since 2017. We are strongly determined to initiate and shift mental health norms in our society.”
“To date, more than 180,000 users across Thailand have used our services through our mobile app. Five years ago, most people may not have been familiar with mental healthcare or seen how mental health can be supported through telemedicine, but now having a video call with psychiatrists or psychologists has become more popular and widely practiced.” “This is one of our achievements – as an innovative leader in leveraging new counseling standards among other traditional mental health services and changing people’s perspectives towards mental health,” she added.
Founded in 2017, Ooca is the first mental health tech innovator in Thailand, which started out with telemedicine used for consultations with psychiatrists and psychologists through an app.
Digital mental healthcare startups
Digital health startups providing mental health therapies have raised more than $5 billion in funding to date, according to our funding database.
The latest funding rounds in the mental healthcare space include:
Sukoon Health, a provider of virtual mental health therapy, raised $15 million in a funding round led by Lightrock India.
Healios, an online mental health therapy platform that connects patients with mental health professionals in the United Kingdom, closed £14 million in a new funding round led by AlbionVC and InHealth Ventures, with participation from Autism Impact Fund.
InStride Health, a provider of virtual mental health treatment for children and adolescents struggling with moderate to severe anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, raised $26 million in funding from .406 Ventures, Valtruis, and Mass General Brigham Ventures.
