Woebot Labs

Mario Queiroz
By  Emily Olsen 01:49 pm June 1, 2022
Digital musculoskeletal care company Hinge Health has hired Mario Queiroz as chief product officer. Queiroz comes to Hinge from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, where he served as vice president of special projects. He also worked at Google for 14 years and held leadership positions at HP. "Millions of Americans experience chronic back and joint pain. As someone deeply passionate about...
A piggy bank next to a stethoscope and a pile of coins
By  Emily Olsen 02:24 pm March 15, 2022
Woebot Health, maker of an AI-powered mental health chatbot, announced Tuesday it has raised $9.5 million from Leaps by Bayer. The strategic investment comes about eight months after the company said it had scored $90 million in Series C funding. Last year, Woebot received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its digital therapeutic treating postpartum depression. "Woebot Health’s mission and...
By  Laura Lovett 09:38 am March 1, 2018
Woebot Labs, a mental health artificial intelligence platform, just landed $8 million in Series A funding with New Enterprise Associates leading and Andrew Ng’s AI Fund participating.  The new app, which launched in February, is a cross between a therapist and a friend. Woebot customers can use the messaging function on the app—just like using Google Hangouts or Apple's iMessage, but instead of a...
By  Heather Mack 05:19 pm June 6, 2017
There’s a new chatbot in town, and it only wants to talk about mental health. Meet Woebot, now available to anyone via Facebook Messenger looking for some supportive talk to deal with anxiety or depression. Rather than augmenting a real therapist or even a non-clinical person, Woebot is wholly robotic; open to engage with an individual as often or as little as they want depending on their needs....