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Koko

Winter 2022 · Active

Making mental health accessible to everyone.

Founded: 2020

Team size: 8

About

We provide free digital mental health technologies for millions of people struggling online — particularly young people. For example, we partner with online communities to help find and treat at-risk individuals directly on their platform.

Founders

  • Rob MorrisFounder

    Rob Morris is the co-founder of Koko — a behavioral health platform that has served 2M people, mostly adolescents. Most recently, he was a staff data scientist at Airbnb and an entrepreneur in residence at Hopelab. Rob earned his AB in psychology from Princeton University and his master's and PhD in media arts and sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Kareem KouddousFounder

    Founderd Suzy, Koko (sold to Airbnb), Airbnb Trust & Safety leadership now back to Koko as a non-profit. A few failed startups before that. Coding since grade school. Dreaming forever.