Czech applications for mental health are sent by investors 36 million
Jiří Diblík and Ondřej Kopecký attribute another milestone on the way to better mental well-being of people all over the world. The founders of the VOS.health application went to the United States two years ago, where they wanted to attract additional investment and gain a million users for their project. They have already achieved both goals. According to their statement, two million people in 170 countries and nine languages use their services, and other investors are joining them. In a new round, domestic Soulmates Ventures and Purple Ventures send 1.5 million euros (36 million crowns) to VOS.health and join existing investors in the form of Miton and Reflex Capital. A quartet of Czech entities has already invested more than 70 million crowns in the company.
The VOS.health mobile application is intended to help people overcome psychologically challenging situations, maintain an overview of their mood and work on a long-term increase in satisfaction. There are several ways to do this. Jiří Diblík with Ondřej Kopecký and his team have been continuing the entire platform for several years. In 2021, decided to leave Qusion development studio, which they also founded and within which VOS.health was originally created, so that they could take full advantage of their so-called well-being. It started to do well and, in addition to a large number of users, it should also generate monthly payments in the order of millions of crowns.
“We believe that with the support of our investors, we will be able to continue to develop and expand our services to help people with mental health care and bring brand new innovations. According to the World Health Organization, in 2019 one in eight people, or 970 million people worldwide, lived with a mental disorder, with anxiety and depression being the most common. However, we see that technology that can effectively work with mental health is growing in popularity among people,” says twenty-four-year-old Jiří Diblík, who founded the project together with twenty-five-year-old Ondřej Kopecký.
The founders of VOS.health believe that the connection of technology and experts in the field of psychology can help on a global scale. Therefore, their application offers a personal well-being plan for each user, a mental health analysis or the possibility to communicate with psychological counselors. The company says that two million people use the platform, but does not say whether this is an active user or the total number of people who have ever downloaded the app. However, several thousand users are expected to work with it every week. The new investment will now be used to add more features and overall development of the project, which is backed by a team of eight developers and several psychologists and mental health experts.
An annual subscription to VOS.health, on which the business model of the entire project is based, costs 899 crowns in the Czech Republic. According to the founders, this is much less than just one therapy in this area. The application has been on the market for two years and was also noticed by Apple, which last year selected as app of the day, which further increased her popularity. Currently, according to Diblík and Kopecký, VOS.health is supposed to be the most downloaded application for mental health in Central Europe, while it is available not only for iOS, but also for Android. A new psychological help function has been added, which can overcome acute crisis situations associated with, for example, panic attacks, depression, stress or thoughts of suicide.