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Intellect - Asia’s Best Funded Mental Health Startup

Theodoric Chew, CEO & Co-Founder, Intellect

04-Jan-24 10:00

Intellect - Asia’s Best Funded Mental Health Startup

In this edition of Open for Business, Theodoric Chew, Co-Founder and CEO of Singapore based digital mental healthcare company Intellect speaks to BFM about how and why he built Intellect, the promise and potential of this venture, and what the path ahead looks like for this digital mental healthcare company.

Among other things, we explore Theo’s past experience building and selling content platform Existgreat at just 20 years old, how that may have helped in his Intellect journey, the role that Intellect plays in the health and wellness space, how they utilised the collective $20 million raised in their Series A round - the largest amount of funding raised by a mental health startup in Asia.

We also get into how their recent strategic partnership with IHH Healthcare will support growth ahead, exit possibilities, and more.

Founded in 2019, Intellect is a digital mental healthcare company based in Singapore, aiming to make mental healthcare and wellbeing support accessible for everyone, and now serves over 3 million members on its platform and has signed. They are backed by some famed investors such as Tiger Global, Insignia Ventures Partners, Y Combinator, and more. And last year signed a strategic partnership with IHH Healthcare, one of Asia’s largest private healthcare group

Produced by: Roshan Kanesan

Presented by: Roshan Kanesan


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Categories:  marketsthe workplacemanagingwellnesspersonal development

Tags:  ofbbb2023Singapore startupstartup foundermental healthihh healthcarey combinatordigital mental healthcareemployee wellnesshealthcarehealthtechstartup





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