Exclusive: Peers completes pre-seed round

The mental health start-up is able to raise a six-figure amount from investors. Backbone Ventures and Barmenia Next Strategies are among those on board.

The start-up Peers has raised a high six-figure amount from investors, according to its own statements. Barmenia Next Strategies, Backbone Ventures, APX and several business angels have invested.

The start-up specializes in the field of mental health. There, 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 is expected to cost 43 euros. The start-up also promises that it can find suitable psychologists for this purpose. In doing so, it wants to close a "gap in care," according to a recent announcement.

Sophie Schürmann, Julia Maria Rüttgers and Philippe Driessen co-founded the startup because they've all been in challenging life situations and "sometimes still are."

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