Exclusive: Peers completes pre-seed round

The mental health start-up raises a six-figure sum from investors. Backbone Ventures and Barmenia Next Strategies are among those on board.

The start-up Peers has reportedly raised a high six-figure sum from investors. Barmenia Next Strategies, Backbone Ventures, APX and several business angels have invested.

The start-up specializes in the field of mental health. It wants to offer an app platform for mental health needs and, among other things, bring groups of people together for professionally led courses. The group sessions will be held via video and a monthly subscription will cost 43 euros. The start-up also promises that it will be able to find suitable psychologists. The aim is to close a "gap in care", according to a recent press release.

Sophie Schürmann, Julia Maria Rüttgers and Philippe Driessen founded the start-up together because they have all experienced challenging life situations and "sometimes still do."

Julia Maria Rüttgers, founder and co-CEO, said of the seed funding: "I am delighted to have such a complementary team of investors on board. Together with this pool of experience, expertise and network, we will counteract one of the largest and, in my opinion, most relevant gaps in care in Germany."