{"id":28063,"date":"2022-06-23T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=28063"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:44:48","slug":"meta-realiza-su-primera-inversion-salud-mental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/noticias\/meta-realiza-su-primera-inversion-salud-mental\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta makes its first mental health investment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta announced a $3 million seed investment in an Asian mental health startup.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Meta's (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) first investment in Asia was in mental health, through seed funding for startup Ami. The Indonesian- and Singapore-based app raised a $3 million seed round just four months after launch. In this way, it will be part of Meta's New Product Experimentation (NPE), the technology company's experimental apps division.<\/p>

Ami is a platform that seeks to bring mental health services to company workers in Asia, through mental health management sessions on WhatsApp. \u201cWe are impressed by the passion and talent of the Ami team and look forward to supporting them as they build WhatsApp to give people in Asia another way to support their mental health,\u201d said NPE Director Sunita Parasuraman.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Through Ami, users can access specialists in areas such as stress management or depression. However, one of Ami's first actions has been to partner with academic institutions in the region to offer comprehensive psychological care. Since currently their specialists are simply mental health counselors, they seek to specialize their service.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The platform seeks to break stigmas about access to mental health services in Asian countries, especially in Singapore. \u201cWhat we hope to do is make the mental health narrative much more proactive for people who want to adopt a healthier lifestyle,\u201d explained Justin Kim, co-founder of Ami.<\/p>

Ami's ultimate goal is to achieve the well-being of workers without the need to use other types of ineffective solutions that do not perceive mental health as a problem.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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MEDTECH PULSE<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.medtechpulse.com\/article\/insight\/meta-takes-first-step-into-the-mental-health-market<\/a><\/p>

GLOBAL TECHNODE<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/technode.global\/2022\/05\/06\/metas-first-investment-in-asia-is-mental-health-startup-ami-with-3m-seed-round\/<\/a><\/p>

FORBES<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/catherinewang\/2022\/05\/04\/meta-makes-first-asia-investment-with-mental-health-startups-3-million-seed-round\/?sh=a343f1321456<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meta anunci\u00f3 una inversi\u00f3n en capital semilla de 3 millones de d\u00f3lares en un startup asi\u00e1tico de salud mental. La primera inversi\u00f3n de Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), en Asia fue en salud mental, a trav\u00e9s de fondos de capital semilla para la empresa emergente Ami. La aplicaci\u00f3n con sede en Indonesia y Singapur, concret\u00f3 una ronda inicial de 3 millones de d\u00f3lares tras apenas cuatro meses de su lanzamiento.  De esta forma, ser\u00e1 parte de Experimentaci\u00f3n de Nuevos Productos (NPE, en ingl\u00e9s) de Meta, la divisi\u00f3n de apps experimentales de la compa\u00f1\u00eda tecnol\u00f3gica. Ami es una plataforma que busca acercar servicios de salud mental a trabajadores de compa\u00f1\u00edas en Asia, a trav\u00e9s de sesiones de manejo de la salud mental por WhatsApp. \u201cEstamos impresionados por la pasi\u00f3n y el talento del equipo de Ami y esperamos apoyarlos a medida que construyen WhatsApp para brindarles a las personas en Asia otra forma de apoyar su salud mental\u201d, explic\u00f3 Sunita Parasuraman directora de NPE. A trav\u00e9s de Ami los usuarios pueden acceder a especialistas en \u00e1reas como manejo de estr\u00e9s o depresi\u00f3n. Sin embargo, una de las primeras acciones de Ami ha sido asociarse con instituciones acad\u00e9micas de la regi\u00f3n para ofrecer atenci\u00f3n psicol\u00f3gica integral. Ya que actualmente sus especialistas son simplemente consejeros salud mental, por lo que buscan especializar su servicio. La plataforma busca romper estigmas sobre el acceso a servicios de salud mental en los pa\u00edses asi\u00e1ticos, especialmente en Singapur. \u201cLo que esperamos hacer es hacer que la narrativa sobre la salud mental sea mucho m\u00e1s proactiva para las personas que desean adoptar un estilo de vida m\u00e1s saludable\u201d, explic\u00f3 Justin Kim cofundador de Ami. El objetivo final de Ami es lograr el bienestar de los trabajadores sin necesidad de utilizar otro tipo de soluciones ineficaces que no perciben la salud mental como una problem\u00e1tica. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA MEDTECH PULSE https:\/\/www.medtechpulse.com\/article\/insight\/meta-takes-first-step-into-the-mental-health-market TECHNODE GLOBAL https:\/\/technode.global\/2022\/05\/06\/metas-first-investment-in-asia-is-mental-health-startup-ami-with-3m-seed-round\/ FORBES https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/catherinewang\/2022\/05\/04\/meta-makes-first-asia-investment-with-mental-health-startups-3-million-seed-round\/?sh=a343f1321456<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3395,160],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-28063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps-moviles-e-internet-de-las-cosas","category-noticias","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}