Slingshot AI
Foundational model for psychology
- 1-20 employees
- Healthcare
- Personal health
- Artificial Intelligence
- Deep Tech
- Mental health
- Machine Learning
- Wellbeing
- Civic Center, New York, NY
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Company mission
To use AI to make Mental Health Care more accessible.
Our take
Use-cases of machine learning in the previous three decades have gone from the impressive but impractical achievements of beating Chess Grand Masters to being integral to some of the world’s most used commercial applications like Google Search.
Slingshot is taking Large Language Models in a new direction, using its machine-learning tools to train generative AI in deep psychology. The aim is to build machine learning models that can perform modern therapy through Ash, set to be the first AI counselor, driving down the cost of mental healthcare.
Slingshot is attempting to democratize access to mental health care through the increasingly complex capabilities of ML. What started for Slingshot as a general exploration of machine learning has developed into a potentially significant and singular product. Whilst the proof will be in the pudding, Ash still being in development, Slingshot has won investor confidence evidenced by its $6 million seed fundign round in 2022.
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Benefits
- Hybrid environment, highly collaborative, fast-paced culture
- Unparalleled growth opportunity - learn faster than you would anywhere else
- Have a massive impact on the next generation of ML engineering
- Work with a passionate team that cares about creating an AI world that's not winner-takes-all
- Learning and development budget
- Company offsites and events
- Lunch on us when you are in the office
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2024
$30m
SEED
Apr 2022
$6.2m
SEED
Total funding: $36.2m
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Leadership
Daniel Reid Cahn
(CEO)Graduated with a Master's at Imperial with distinction and an award for novel work in Deep Reinforcement Learning. Prior to Slingshot, they were a Machine Learning Engineer at Instabase filing two patents that redirected the strategy of the company at large.
Neil Parikh
(Co-founder)Neil is co-founder of Casper, the global sleep company which he helped grow to over $500million in revenue and IPO'd in 2020.