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Mantra Health Secures 2023 MedTech Breakthrough Award for Mental Health Innovation

  • Writer: Cat Burchmore
    Cat Burchmore
  • May 3, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Nov 20, 2024

NEW YORK, May 3, 2023Mantra Health, the preeminent digital mental health provider of mental health and wellness solutions for higher education, announced today it has received the “Mental Health Innovation Award” by the 2023 MedTech Breakthrough Awards.


The prestigious MedTech Breakthrough Awards garnered over 4,000 nominations this year, making it one of the most comprehensive and competitive evaluations in the industry. This is the seventh consecutive year that MedTech Breakthrough has conducted the review, scoring, and analysis.


“We are honored to accept this distinguished award acknowledging the innovative efforts taken by the entire team at Mantra Health,” said Matt Kennedy, Co-Founder of Mantra Health. “Our unique approach to providing quality mental health solutions for young adults further sets our solution apart and advances our mission of increasing access to quality, diverse mental health and wellness solutions. These awards reaffirm the effectiveness of our strategy.”


Winners this year include brands like athenahealth, Cerebral, Bright.md and many others that contribute to “an impressive list of top companies and startups in the larger digital health industry,” according to MedTech Breakthrough. Past winners include other noteworthy names in the digital mental healthcare industry like Talkspace and NeuroFlow.


This is the fourth industry recognition Mantra Health has received in recent months. Mantra Health won a 2022 UCSF Health Hub Digital Health ‘Rising Star’ Award in the category of Mental & Behavioral Health in November; was named to the New York Digital Health 100 in February; and was recognized by Juniper Research with the Gold Award for Best Digital Therapeutic Solution as a part of their Future Digital Awards in April.


In March, Mantra Health also announced additional Series A extension funding, a new Whole Campus Care solution, and an innovative partnership with leading peer-to-peer community support provider Togetherall. Mantra Health continues to broaden its reach in the mental health and wellness space.


About Mantra Health


Mantra Health is an award-winning digital mental health clinic on a mission to improve access to evidence-based mental healthcare for young adults. Through augmenting high-quality clinical services with software and design, we aim to improve the mental health of over 40 million young adults through partnerships with higher education institutions and health insurance plans. Mantra Health was named a Mental & Behavioral Health Rising Star at the 2022 UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Awards. The Mantra program has been deployed across 105 campuses with over 800,000 students, including Penn State, MIT, Cornell, and Miami Dade College.


About MedTech Breakthrough


Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence and innovation in medical & health technology companies, products, services and people. The MedTech Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough healthcare and medical companies and products in categories that include Patient Experience & Engagement, Health & Fitness, Medical Devices, Clinical Administration, Connected Healthcare, Medical Data, Healthcare Cybersecurity and more. For more information visit MedTechBreakthrough.com.


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