CEO

UpLife is a behavioral and mental health platform that turns evidence-based care into something people use every day. Built on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles, the product combines guided therapeutic journeys, an AI mental health companion, mood tracking, habit-building tools, and clinically validated screenings (GAD-7, PHQ-9, WHO-5) into a single, engaging experience.

Founded in 2019, with our first product in market since 2021, we have what most seed-stage companies are still searching for: a capable, proven product with documented clinical outcomes and real users who love it.

• Live and in market: available on the App Store and Google Play with strong user ratings and reviews.
• Documented clinical outcomes at scale: a five-year (2021–2026) real-world evaluation of 500,000+ users across nearly every country found that engagement with the app was associated with statistically significant reductions in depression and anxiety, with average PHQ-9 (depression) scores falling roughly 3.7 points — moving the typical user from the “moderately severe” range toward “moderate.” The study also revealed a clear dose–response effect: the more of UpLife’s CBT-based “Journeys” a user completed, the greater their symptom improvement.
• HIPAA compliant: built for the privacy and trust requirements of healthcare.
• Two proven revenue engines: a consumer (B2C) subscription product and a professional (B2B) offering for group practices, with expansion underway into treatment centers and community clinics, followed by commercial accounts and payers.

We are a lean, senior team of ~10 (employees and contractors) who have done the first hard part: proving the product works. The next chapter is about capital and scale, and that’s the chapter we’re hiring you to lead.

What You’ll Do

• Raise the round. Own the capital strategy end to end from narrative, materials, investor pipeline, and close. This is the first and most important deliverable: a $3M seed round.
• Set and drive strategy. Sharpen the path across B2C and B2B and sequence the expansion into treatment centers, community clinics, commercial accounts, and insurers.
• Lead go-to-market. Build the revenue engine across both consumer and organizational channels including pricing, partnerships, sales, and growth.
• Build and lead the team. Get the most out of a small, senior group today, and recruit the people who take us to the next stage post-raise.
• Be the face of the company. Represent UpLife to investors, clinical and enterprise partners, press, and prospective hires.

What We’re Looking For

Must-haves

• A proven venture fundraising track record. You have personally raised institutional capital and can point to rounds you led and closed.
• Both B2C and B2B go-to-market experience. You’ve sold to consumers and to organizations, and you understand why doing both at once is hard and how to win at it.
• Behavioral / mental health domain experience. You know this space, its clinical realities, its buyers, its regulatory and trust expectations, and what responsible mental health care looks like.

Strong pluses

• Prior experience as a seed-stage CEO or founder.
• Digital health / healthtech background (HIPAA, clinical workflows, payer and provider dynamics).
• Experience scaling a small team through a funding inflection.