The College of Wooster

California Institute of Integral Studies

Building Mental Health & Wellbeing Startups & Games That Impact Wellbeing

Berkeley, California, United States

The Verse: An ecosystem for the development of digital experiences that shift health and consciousness. Guided by our "verse building in the open" mantra, we cultivate an ecology of practices to reimagine a shift in consciousness. We have three areas of focus: art, gaming, and education.

Art - collecting, crowdsourcing, curating art around transformational themes (awe, prosociality - aka “tend and befriend”, perspective taking, empathy).
Positive Gaming -  building game mechanics that gamify mindfulness, contemplation, and prosociality. Building tool sets that measure the impact of our game mechanics on wellbeing, mental health, and consciousness.
Education - an emergent model of learning and action based around the central themes of systems, play and design. [Gaming Literacy]

Our distributed structure enables The Verse to organize around smaller, focused nodes of interest that incubate experimental initiatives, while the wider network develops and organizes activities that have a broader scope.

The Verse

Co-Founder

Transformative Technology's mission is to permanently move a billion people into a state of wellbeing and flourishing by 2030. The Transformative Technology Conference is the only conference focused on tech for mental wellness, emotional wellbeing, and human flourishing. We sit at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, tech, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We leverage exponential technologies like AI, AR/VR/XR, networks and sensors, biotech, neurofeedback, robotics and more to build tech to enable human wellbeing at scale. I am supporting Transformative Technology efforts in Berkeley, CA.

The Transformative Tech Lab

Transformative Technology Chapter Leader, Berkeley, CA

AgeW3LL: A Wellbeing Exploration & Discovery Platform For Seniors. Connecting Seniors 65+ With Effective, Evidence-based Wellbeing Solutions Including Product & Services, Classes & Courses, And Media That Makes You Feel Better (Movies, Music, & More)! More @ <a href="http://w3ll.xyz">http://w3ll.xyz</a> /

W3LL

CEO/Co-Founder

An 8-week program leveraging a powerful community of investors, entrepreneurs, advisors, payers, and providers to prepare you to navigate the early stages of building your behavioral health business. What If Fellowship is a program founded by Stephen Hays of What If Ventures.

What If Fellowship

What If Fellowship Graduate

Second Time Founders

Graduate

Building Immersive Media Experiences To Promote Health & Wellbeing. We are starting with AfterDeath? AfterDeath is a game-based, interactive virtual reality simulation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which describes the journey consciousness takes from the moment of death until its rebirth in another form. Using the mechanism of an immersive psychedelic “trip” through otherworldly environments, AfterDeath will be both a unique gaming experience and a pathway to understanding personal attitudes, desires, and aversions.

The Vision:
Our goal is to create an awe-inspiring immersive “game” that is also a profound tool for psychological and spiritual development.
The interactive modalities described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead train us to employ calm focus, equanimity, and compassion to attain more blissful states. These will become successful strategies in the AFTERDEATH “game”.
Future enhancements will include multiple levels and environments, and the incorporation of increasingly sophisticated interactive technologies, including bio, neuro and haptic feedback.

BardoVR

Executive Producer

BSkillful’s Play Platform offers play practices, impact analysis and an AI based recommendation services that reconnects you with the power of play. Play improves your physical and psychological well being, makes you feel more connected, and less stressed. We are looking for partners to test our Play Platform.

BSkillful Play Platform

Founder

PCL Communications

Strategist

Founders Network (<a href="http://www.foundersnetwork.com">www.foundersnetwork.com</a>) offers lifelong peer mentorship to over 600 tech startup founders globally.    FN facilitates authentic experience sharing, warm introductions, and long-term professional relationships through platform, programs and high touch service.

Founders Network

Director of Growth

ODMS has built a PARTS-ON-DEMAND platform that uses 3D printing (FDM and SLA) and metal casting techniques to manufacture parts on demand. ODMS’ platform allows our customers to manufacture parts when they need them and where they need them. Our Print-To-Cast Platform (metal cast parts from 3D prints) is in testing with partners in the maritime and aviation industries.

ODMS

Founder-CEO

SoundFit’s scanners capture objects in high resolution with full texture maps. SoundFit creates scan to print solutions that provide customize-able products to manufactures and makers in the evolving 3D ecosystem. Our modular scanning architecture can be scaled to address a diverse range of verticals including medical, retail, scientific and consumer markets.

We currently offer the SugarCube, a cost effective 3D scan to print service that every audiologist and communications dealer can afford. We save our customers time and money by enabling on-demand manufacturing of custom fit adapters for music, Bluetooth devices, communications, and hearing aids. Interested in signing up for our Beta? Info @ <a href="http://bit.ly/1hRK8dg">http://bit.ly/1hRK8dg</a>.

We are working with Type A Machines and the city of San Leandro to develop an innovation hub for next generation manufacturing technologies at the Westgate facility in San Leandro (aka “The Gate”).
Investor info @ <a href="http://soundfit.co/investor_partner_relations">http://soundfit.co/investor_partner_relations</a>.
Partnership info @ <a href="http://bit.ly/1fpqg0K">http://bit.ly/1fpqg0K</a>.

Questions about...
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SoundFit, LLC

CEO & Co-Founder

Creating the next iteration of the Dr. Toy brand!

Dr. Toy's Guide

Consultant

Innovative Solutions From Product Conception through Market Dominance

Start-up Accelerator: Start-up businesses have special needs, and the SWIFT team has a combined experience of more than 25 years of helping take start-ups to the next level. Whether you are an individual entrepreneur needing coaching; a start-up raising money; need help transforming your technology play into a market making product; Need to develop or implement sales and marketing strategies to launch a new product, increase awareness, open new channels, or outflank the competition; SWIFT Design Group is ready to help. We can even augment your team with additional experienced team staff or management on a part-time or full-time basis, who know how to make start-ups successful.

- Marketing/Social Media For Start-ups
- New Product Innovation Strategy
- Building Intrapreneuring Innovation Teams and Labs
- Interim/Part Time Executive
- Education and Training

Located in heart of the Silicon Valley, the world's foremost regional center of innovation. Over 25 years experience creating breakthrough solutions in High Technology, Internet, Software, and Mobile Markets. We have served clients from High Technology Start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations like HP, Intuit and Sybase.

Swift Design Group

Partner

MoBillions is a small Silicon Valley mobile start-up made of bright people committed to changing to world of commerce. We are dedicated to saving you time, effort and money, and giving you peace of mind with every purchase.

Our promise to you: Your Time and Money, Well Spent!

MoBillions' mobile app for consumers:

Finds nearby merchants with special offers you want,
shows you comparable local and online prices for products you are considering, instantly negotiates price matches and unadvertised discounts at stores you visit, eliminates waiting in check out lines, and generates savings for merchants they can pass on to you.

At each step of the purchase process from product and merchant discovery through faster payment and delivery, MoBillions mobile apps and services will totally transform your brick and mortar shopping experiences in ways that few people can dream today.

Mobillions

Operations & Marketing (start-up) - COO/CMO

GroupGain is the next revolution is social commerce.
Operations/Management
Investor Relations
Social Media Outreach
Strategic Marketing
HR/Recruiting
-  all the little things.

Group Gain

Operations & Marketing (start-up) - CEO/CMO

I work in what I call the Health-Happiness-Hope space (wellbeing!). It is an honor to be part of the movement to bring better wellbeing resources to the world and an exciting time to be building in the wellbeing space. I have expertise in wellbeing/wellness, digital therapeutics, behavioral health, and mental health. Additionally, I have experience at the intersection of gaming and wellbeing (games for health and games for change!). I have a great network and have resources that will accelerate whatever you are working on!

Upaya Services

Principal & Founder

- Directed all aspects of business including: financial planning, business development, marketing, and human resources for a mid-size company.
- Performed strategic planning, productivity and profitability analysis, and business valuation/financial modeling for forecasting, expansion/acquisition, and development.  Increased gross sales by 50% in four years, maintained 10 - 15% increase from 2005-2008.  •Increased hourly productivity, net profitability, and reduced operating expenses on a yearly basis. In 2009, reduced costs by 25% through operational reorganization and expense reduction program, while increasing new clients by 12% and work volume by 25%.
- Managed all accounting operations including: accounting close, reporting, reconciliations, and the annual external tax audit. •Designed and implemented pension and 401K plans, directed investment and related activities with principals, investment services and 3rd party administrator. Conducted quarterly and year-end audits to determine financial targets.
- Developed and implemented strategic marketing campaign including: quarterly newsletter, innovative direct mailings, hyper-local advertorials, community outreach initiatives, and online advertising that increased client base by 15% - 20% per year.
- Designed and directed human resources program including: recruitment, salary reviews, payroll, health benefits (Sec 125), profit sharing (401K), training and team building initiatives, and policies and procedures manuals.
- Managed corporate investment in infrastructure and market accounts to insure capital liquidity.  Procured 1 million+ in financing for property and equipment acquisitions.

Brende & Lamb

Executive Director & Director of Business Development & Marketing

- Coordinated operations for health care consulting firm that assisted Fortune 500 companies in implementing EAP, health fairs, and prevention/wellness programs.
- Created and administered research measures, analyzed data and presented findings to help clients determine appropriate healthcare programs/interventions.
- Developed marketing campaign, coordinated yearly conferences, and produced monthly and quarterly promotional literature. Designed and managed corporate web site, including ‘Total Health’ series on prevention and wellness programs.
- Managed accounting operations, accounting close, reconciliations, and the annual external tax audit. Created and analyzed performance measures to track and maximize profitability.
- Coordinated human resources including: recruitment, salary reviews, payroll, health benefits (Sec 125), and training and team building initiatives.

Integrated Health Management Associates

Director of Marketing & Development

Weichert Realtors

Realtor Associate

Designed, developed and managed 1st generation web sites for Dr. Dean Ornish's 'Lifestyle Modification Program' for heart disease and prostate cancer prevention. Integrated research findings, products and services, retreat programs, and general information into an interactive online resource for health care consumers. Responsibilities included content development, merchandising, online advertising, coordinating affiliate programs and building strategic alliances.

Ben Simon-Thomas

Ben Simon-Thomas