SoundMind

An audio & visual music therapy app to help those who are struggling with trauma and anxiety.

Los Angeles, CA, USA

One Liner

One Liner
An audio & visual music therapy app to help those who are struggling with trauma and anxiety.

What Problem We are Solving

Problem
SoundMind is solving the gap between accessibility and interactive mental health resources. Our target customers are left without guidance on how to educate themselves on their own mental health, and lack an ability to see the benefit of using existing solutions. Throughout the pandemic, our target customers have been exposed to 82% more anxiety and stress then normal.

About Us

About Us
SoundMind is an audio and visual music therapy app to help those struggling with mental illness. Backed By Rough Draft Ventures (powered by General Catalyst), Gaingels VC, Chasing Rainbows VC, elite healthcare/tech leaders, music creators & more.

Venture Highlights

Highlights
Some Awesome SoundMind Updates:

- Raised $1M in our first year last year at an $8M evaluation
- CEO and Head of Neuro are giving at TEDx talk at the end of March 2022
- Launched onto the App Store on November 6th, 2021 
- Held our launch event gala at the Grammy Museum in DTLA, attended by some of the best in the tech, health and influencer space!
- Featured in Business Insider!

Business Model

Business Model
B2B Approach
Our B2B strategy is simple: to help companies, universities, schools, nonprofit organizations and/or other related organizations provide a mental health experience for its users. We believe that there is a lack of strong, tangible resources on the market that includes a sound therapy experience like SoundMind, in addition to providing mental health resources, analytics and data on each organizations’ users to better understand the overall mental health of the collective.

In December of 2021, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a nation-wide advisory to highly the urgent need to address the nation’s youth mental health crisis. “The COVID-19 pandemic further altered [children, adolescents, and young adults] experiences at home, school, and in the community, and the effect on their mental health has been devastating. The future wellbeing of our country depends on how we support and invest in the next generation” Dr. Murthy noted.

In aligning with this, SoundMind is focusing our market on the mental health of all demographics: children, adolescents, young adults and more from all backgrounds — because mental health is just that important.

Our Strategy to Approach Customers
We are focusing on a three-pronged approach when approaching customers on the benefits of bringing in SoundMind as a resource for their organizations:

1) Educate — In order for decision-making parties to understand the need for a mental health resource like SoundMind, we need to educate customers on why a resource like this is necessary. We’ll introduce educational content on the benefits of music therapy, binaural beats, brain exercises, and more; in addition to showcasing different case studies of other organizations using SoundMind.

2) Engage — We’ll engage with customers by diving deep into their needs to understand what else it is that we can deliver in a successful engagement and contract. Whether that’s data analytics of the mental health of their users, or to be a central hub of mental health resources, we stand ready to understand the customer needs and to deliver as needed.

3) Execute — The SoundMind Team will execute on the contracts to ensure a smooth delivery and customer use of our product. We’ll be providing strong customer support as needed, and be on standby to assist with technical needs, overall customer support, as needed.

Target Buyers
We understand that the ultimate buyers of a B2B contract are C-Suite division executives, Department heads, Executive Directors, or of the related field. Here’s an example of organizational titles that we are targeting:

  • Universities/School Districts 
    • Vice President of Student Affairs
    • Dean of Students
    • Associate Director of Residential Life
    • Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services
    • Principals
  • Corporations 
    • Chief Executive Officer
    • Chief Operating Officer
    • Chief Human Resources Officer/Chief People Officer
  • Nonprofit Organizations 
    • Executive Director
    • Board Member

Competitive Advantage

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Our unique app features include:

Why We Win?
We understand how to utilize data and mental health to give HR companies the best solution for both their understanding of their employees and the users ability to receive tangible help.

🎵 Personalized Music Composer

  • Our technology understands who you are and what makes one happy through a custom-tailored mobile application experience specifically for the user. It learns to understand when you’re stressed and teaches you to relax through our individualized music therapy composer, which is designed to create personalized soundscapes that help users mitigate their sound trauma, sleep better, and overall create a calming experience. Use headphones is going to create a much better, all-encompassing experience too.

🧠 Mood Tracker

  • Through an in-app mood tracking system, SoundMind keeps track of one’s mood -- highs and lows -- with branded characters that relate to the user. Choose from four moods a day (Happy/Sad/Angry/Worried) and submit a journal indicating a detailed account of your day. Then, view your overall mood for the week or month through a view of an overall calendar. See different colors throughout the calendar? Your moods are all over the place, and we hope that SoundMind can help you. See a teal across the month? You must be in a happy mood!!

🎧 Visual Binaural Beats

  • Binaural beats are an auditory phenomenon perceived by our brains when each ear receives a sound of a unique frequency. These pulses encourage brain waves to align with the frequency of a certain beat, causing the brain to enter into a “specific state.” The brain then naturally adjusts its brainwave frequency to match that of external stimulus, and can induce trance, enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation, or sleep induction. The SoundMind app contains immersive visual therapies connected with binaural beats that help users enter into a specific state through 3D immersive visual binaural beats.

🚨 Rapid Response Feature

  • In times of trauma and emergencies, we understand that sounds of sirens and ambulances cause even more triggers. To ensure a safe and beneficial experience for any user in need -- and for them to contact the first people they should contact in times of distress -- SoundMind created the Rapid Response feature into the app directly. This feature allows individuals to input emergency contacts who will be contacted directly on the user’s behalf through a short message indicating their need and current location.

🔒 Future Premium Features

  • SoundMind is currently in the stages of developing the brain exercises and creator platform of the app. The research-based brain exercises are designed to help users concentrate better, boost memory performance, mitigate depression and anxiety, boost cerebral cortex activity and engagement, and more.

  • The creator platform is meant to create a platform where music creators can showcase their sounds to help users connect to each users’ mental health stories. We’re excited to partner with industry leading creators to display their

Users

Total Users
2
Total Users (Past 30 Days)
1
Daily Active Users
250
Monthly Active Users
800
Total Paying Users
N/A
MoM Growth Users
N/A
Organic Traffic %
85%

Competitive Analysis

Competitive Analysys
We believe that we are not mutually exclusive with Calm and Headspace, in which companies that already have existing contracts with these meditation platforms can also have SoundMind. Our company works on providing users with specific metrics based on your interactions based on our sound therapy that can also guide you towards other orgs./nonprofits. We believe we are a gateway for companies to easily collect data through our “sonic profile” that can be used to help individuals find additional resources outside of SoundMind and also experience an anxiety/stress-reduced healing journey through our interface. 
Competitor Website
Headspace www.headspace.com
Endel endel.io

Networking

Networking
We are open to meeting up to grab a coffee, or just to chat. We would really enjoy your feedback and insight into our venture and would be happy to discuss anything that you are currently working on to see if we can be of service!

Positions

Marketing Strategy Lead

Part-time Employee

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Full-Stack Engineer

Full-time Employee

Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Capital

Name Amount
Amount Raise To Date $1.05M
Type of Raise SAFE

Valuation
$8M
Friends & Family
$200K
Preseed
$800K
Grant Dollars Awarded
$50K

Business Stage

Business Stage
Seed

Business Type

Business Types
Venture Capital Backed

Categories

B2B2C
B2B
Music
Healthcare

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