Making mental health accessible to everyone.
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 using our online interventions.
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Rob Morris, Founder
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 Kouddous, Founder
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.
Selected answers from Koko's original YC application for the W22 Batch
Describe your organization in 50 characters or less.
AI-based triage and intervention for mental health
How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.
The initial idea for the company was developed almost ten years ago, while one of the founders was a graduate student at MIT. The for-profit phase of the Koko journey lasted about three years. We have spent the last eleven months relaunching as a non-profit.