Depression and anxiety alone cost the global economy an estimated $1 trillion every year. In total, poor mental health is projected to cost the world economy $6 trillion annually by 2030. And yet, for most people who go to therapy, the session still starts the same way it always has: their therapist asks how the week went, and they spend twenty minutes trying to remember.
That’s the problem Myndhaven is trying to fix.
The co-founders of MyndHaven, Prince Idoma from Abuja, Nigeria and Julian Mangual from Minnesota, USA, met in a LinkedIn comment section, stayed in each other’s DMs long enough to become friends, and eventually found themselves circling the same question: why does the most important context a therapist needs arrive verbally, unreliably, at the start of a fifty-minute session?
The answer, they concluded, is that nobody had built the infrastructure to move it earlier.
What the MyndHaven platform does
Myndhaven works by sitting between a person’s daily emotional life and their clinical care. Users interact with an AI companion through daily check-ins, mood tracking, and journaling. The system builds a picture of their emotional patterns over time. Before each therapy session, the therapist receives a structured summary of that person’s week: what the AI logged, what patterns appeared, and what shifted. The session starts from context, not from scratch.
Myndhaven’s target is to cut therapy get-to-know-you time by over 90%. The idea is that if a therapist already knows you walked into Monday angry, that your sleep dropped midweek, and that Friday was harder than usual, the session can go somewhere real from the first minute.
After the session ends, both the client and the therapist receive a follow-up summary covering what was discussed and what to work on before the next appointment.
What it means for companies
Workforce mental health is where the trillion-dollar problem becomes a boardroom problem. Nearly 12 billion working days are lost each year globally due to mental health conditions. Companies are increasingly aware of this, but most have limited visibility into what’s actually happening with their people, this is according to the Africa Tech Summit
Myndhaven’s corporate product gives employers anonymised, aggregated data on workforce wellbeing. Stress trends across teams. Early signals of burnout before it becomes attrition. No individual’s private entries are ever visible. The founding team describes the privacy model as structural, meaning it’s built into how the product works rather than promised in a policy document.
For HR teams and people managers, the distinction matters. The data is designed to help companies act on what’s actually happening, not on what people say in an annual survey they know will be read by someone.
What it means for therapists
Therapists are overextended. According to the WHO’s World Mental Health Today report published in 2025, 91% of people living with depression around the world are not able to access care. The ones who do access care often arrive at sessions with their therapist starting from zero every week.
Myndhaven gives therapists a structured context before every session and a record of what was covered after it. The goal is that sessions become more productive from the moment they start, because the therapist already knows the week their client had.
The build
The app UI is in its final stage. Beta is expected within two months. The team is four people: Prince and Julian as co-founders, alongside Sam and Eldin, both from Connecticut.
Myndhaven is built for anyone, anywhere, who attends therapy and wants the sessions to actually use the time well. The individual product, the corporate product, and the therapist-facing tools are all designed around the same premise: that mental health care works better when the people involved in it are working from the same picture.
Over 200 people joined the waitlist before the product went live, without a single naira spent on advertising.
Myndhaven is currently in pre-beta.
Join the waitlist: https://www.myndhaven.com/
