Dr Emilia Molimpakis is the co-founder and CEO of Thymia, a mental health tech startup building AI-powered tools inspired by video games to help doctors spot and treat depression.
Molimpakis, who has a PhD in neuroscience and linguistics from UCL, founded Thymia alongside Dr Stefano Goria in 2020. In June last year, Thymia secured £780,000 in seed funding.
Thymia’s platform uses AI to analyse patients’ voices, eye movements and behaviour to help clinicians identify symptoms and measure progress in treating depression and and other cognitive conditions.
In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Molimpakis shares advice for female founders raising capital, reveals her tips for avoiding burnout at Thymia and explains why she believes AI is the most “hyped-up” and “misunderstood” technology....