ORIGIN STORY
"Koko began as my MIT side project, hacked together to manage my own mental health. I never thought it would be of use to anyone else. But it helped me. A lot. And I wanted to bring it to the world..."
OUR TEAM
We are product designers, engineers, researchers and growth hackers. We've developed and evaluated online interventions for mental health for 10 years.
OUR ADVISORY BOARD
We take great pride in having a distinguished panel of advisors who provide invaluable support. Our advisors bring a wealth of expertise from various domains, including academia, technology, healthcare.
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He sold his mental-health startup to Airbnb, then relaunched it as a nonprofit with a bigger mission
NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Rob Morris PhD, the creator of Koko.
A nonprofit helps to detect high-risk mental health content and provides resources
Koko is what you’d get if you were to combine the swiping gesture of Tinder, the anonymity of Whisper, the upvoting of Reddit, and the earnestness of old-fashioned forums
Can an app that lets strangers — and bots — become amateur therapists create a safer internet?
Koko co-founder, Robert Morris PhD, speaks with Wall Street Journal Technology Reporter, Benjamin Powers, for this piece on "affective AI", published in The Future of Everything.
By being clear about what it is not, Koko minimizes many of the risks endemic in therapy platforms
New computer systems aim to peer inside our heads—and to help us fix what they find there
Peer-to-peer application outperforms conventional self-help technique for easing depression, anxiety
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