The company covers the problem that a lot of companies are experiencing with employees having mental health issues, burnouts, and fall in performance due to increased stress. We offer each employee a neurotech headset that allows them to track their cognitive stress, their focus levels, and how much mental effort they use while working on various tasks.
Then we offer an anonymized dashboard for the leader to follow along with the development inside their department to help them support their employees.
Pilot projects include companies like Jabra, Deloitte, Omnium Improvement, and Abacus Medicine where it has been a volunteer initiative by the companies
For this SPRINGBOARD®, panelists with competencies/experience within these themes, are needed for sparring:
Mission
Our mission is to help millions of people around the world thrive in a healthy and supportive workplace. We want to help people get simple and accessible mental health data insights and support through our app and program.
Problem
Companies lose billions each year due to poor mental health in the workplace
Leaders are facing increased workplace stress and struggle to support employee wellbeing effectively. Solutions like access to coaches or therapists often come too late, resulting in sick leave, burnouts and ultimately people leaving the company.
Solution
Data-driven cognitive solution for a healthier and happier workforce
Hird combines in-ear neurotech headphones with an easy-to-use app to give employees personalized insights into their cognitive performance metrics such as stress, focus, and mental effort levels. We also give leaders anonymized insights on how their employees are doing with solutions on how to improve the working environment, job satisfaction, workflows, and processes.
Business model
B2B business model, targeting 50-250 employee firms.
Company plan – starting from DKK 275 per month per employee.
Team
CEO and Co-founder – ex. Strategy consultant
COO and Co-founder – 10+ years of EEG expertise
CTO and Co-founder – 5+ years of BCI expertise
Financials
Has raised DKK 1.6 million (softfunding), now looking to raise DKK 1.3 million (equity).
Traction
7 company pilots + 2 active pilot projects.
We help reduce stress by 14 percent.
90 percent of employees want to wear the company’s headset.
The vision
“We envision a future where millions of employees across the globe thrive mentally by understanding and knowing what to do to sustain their cognitive wellbeing.”
What we do
We offer each employee a personalized experience through our app giving them insights on their cognitive health: Cognitive stress levels, Focus levels, and Mental effort. We additionally provide them with suggestions on where they can improve.
Packages
Mental health support upskilling for leaders, and employee support in how to sustain good cognitive health both short and long-term.
Competitors
Woba, Zoios, Mutedo, Vos
Price models
Corporate Athlete subscription - onboarding fee DKK 2,000, DKK 275 per user monthly.
Business model
Subscription-based business model.
Financing
The company has raised 1.6 mio DKK in softfunding giving us 12 months runway. We would ideally be looking for an investor to be a part of the journey we on. We are looking to begin the round starting next year.
Traction
9 company pilots + 1 active pilot project.
90% of the employees want to wear our headset.
We helped reduce stress by 14%.
65 voluntary employees have used our service in various departments.
