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YC W24 co-founder and CTO building Sonia AI mental health
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Co-Founder and CTO of Sonia, an AI mental health startup.
- Y Combinator W24 alum with Sonia.
- Co-founded Sonia with Chris Aeberli and Lukas Wolf.
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- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator W24 alum with Sonia.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Co-Founder and CTO of Sonia, an AI mental health startup.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Co-founded Sonia with Chris Aeberli and Lukas Wolf.
What you likely need
You're a technical co-founder at a YC W24 AI mental health company navigating the gap between research credibility and clinical/commercial traction. The Festival events that will move the needle most are those that connect you to growth-stage health investors who already know YC W24, clinicians who can co-author and de-risk your safety story, and B2B distribution partners in the EAP and university counseling space. A tight peer group of health-focused YC batchmates will also help you sustain the emotional weight of building in this category.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA YC W24 founder dinner with growth-stage AI health investors from a16z Bio+Health, OMERS, and General Catalyst's health team who have already been introduced to Sonia through Bookface
- wellbeingA monthly debrief roundtable exclusively for YC W24 health-track founders building emotionally heavy products, to share burnout strategies and hold each other accountable on retention and ARR milestones
- positioningA dinner for AI mental health founders and licensed clinicians (PhD/PsyD/MD) actively publishing on voice-AI safety to find co-authors for a preprint that de-risks Sonia's therapy positioning for investors and the FDA
- hiringA happy hour for YC-backed digital health founders and clinical PhD/PsyD/MD candidates open to operator roles, specifically to recruit a safety-and-guardrails clinical lead — the single most common LP ask in voice-AI mental health
- tacticalA B2B roundtable connecting AI mental health founders with EAP procurement leads and university counseling center directors who buy seat-based contracts, to short-circuit the consumer CAC problem Sonia faces at seed stage
- positioningA dinner for NeurIPS/ICML-pedigreed technical founders and AI IP attorneys to workshop how to turn a voice-text alignment paper like GeRA into a defensible patent or benchmark that a Series A investor can underwrite as a moat
- fundraisingA YC W24 office hours session with founders who have already crossed $1M ARR in AI health, stress-testing retention and engagement metrics decks before first outreach to a16z Bio+Health and General Catalyst