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Sword Health Raises $40M, Launches AI-Powered Mental Health Solution “Mind”

by Fred Pennic 06/17/2025 Leave a Comment

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What You Should Know: 

– Sword Health, the world’s leading AI Care company raises $40M funding round at a $4B valuation, led by General Catalyst. 

– The company also unveiled Mind, a revolutionary mental health solution that combines AI and licensed clinicians to deliver continuous, personalized care, aiming to transform mental health from episodic talk therapy to a proactive, always-on support system.

– The new funding will accelerate the evolution of Sword’s AI Care model, fuel its expansion into additional areas of healthcare, and drive ongoing M&A initiatives.

Reimagining Mental Health Care Beyond Episodic Therapy

With the launch of Mind, Sword is tackling one of healthcare’s biggest challenges: access to effective, high-quality mental health care. Nearly 1 billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition, yet care remains fragmented, reactive, and often inaccessible.

Traditional therapy, based on episodic 40-minute sessions often weeks apart, fails to keep up with the round-the-clock reality of mental health. It captures only fragments of a person’s life, missing the everyday factors that shape mental wellbeing. Mind redefines this model with a proactive, 24/7 system that integrates cutting-edge AI with licensed, Ph.D-level mental health specialists to provide seamless and responsive support whenever it’s needed.

Mind’s continuous care model is powered by three core innovations working in concert:

  • Phoenix: Sword’s AI Therapist, a highly personalized AI Care agent designed to address mental health conditions in a comprehensive and holistic way.
  • M-band: A proprietary wearable device that captures the patient’s full environmental and physiological context, detecting early indicators of depression and anxiety to enable proactive outreach from clinicians.
  • Mind Clinicians: Ph.D.-level mental health professionals who work alongside Phoenix to continuously engage with patients, ensuring the human touch remains central to care.

“We’ve rebuilt care delivery from the ground up—replacing a century-old, labor-intensive model with AI that removes barriers to world-class care for everyone who needs it,” said Virgilio Bento, Founder & CEO of Sword Health. “This funding is a milestone that allows us to deepen our foundational AI research and to accelerate our expansion into new healthcare verticals like mental health—a field still dominated by unscalable and ineffective models.”

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