Y Combinator alum Shimmer, which affords a training platform for adults, has raised $2.2 million in a seed funding spherical led by Worklife Ventures and Seed to B. The platform goals to assist adults with ADHD deal with challenges by way of personalised 1:1 video teaching, productiveness instruments and science-backed studying modules. Shimmer matches customers to an ADHD coach who helps them meet targets, keep a optimistic method to alter and enhance productiveness,

The startup was based in 2021 by CEO Christal Wang, a neurodiverse entrepreneur who dropped out of Berkeley-Haas’ MBA/MPH program to start out Shimmer, and CTO Vikram Sreedhar, a Stanford graduate who beforehand based a non-profit referred to as Make A Distinction (M.A.D.)

Wang instructed TechCrunch that when she was recognized with ADHD, she lastly had an evidence for her habits after many years of being instructed she was “an excessive amount of.” After her diagnoses, her physiatrist gave her a prescription for Adderall.

“As somebody who was raised in Asian tradition the place medicine is often not the primary line of protection, and generally even frowned upon, I naturally started attempting to find behavioral options,” Wang stated. “When I discovered ADHD teaching as an idea, it appeared too good to be true. It was confirmed to be efficient, the highest consultants within the area beneficial it as part of combined therapy, and I strongly resonated with its premise. But, it actually was too good to be true. It was extraordinarily costly.”

Wang says the ADHD teaching choices that she got here throughout price round $300 an hour and have been arduous to navigate, and that her psychiatrist couldn’t advocate a selected coach for her.

Wang and Sreedhar then got down to create an ADHD teaching platform that solved these points. The duo needed to supply customers entry to ADHD teaching periods at a cheaper price level than what Wang got here throughout when she was first searching for periods for herself.

The preferred Shimmer bundle provides customers 30-min teaching periods per week for $230 per 30 days. The platform additionally affords weekly 15-minute or 45-minute teaching periods for $140 or $345 per 30 days, respectively.

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When customers first join Shimmer they’re requested to reply a collection of questions on their ADHD background, particular challenges and preferences they’ve for his or her coach. They’re then matched with one among Shimmer’s 30+ ADHD coaches. Customers then get entry to a mixture of video, textual content and visible sources and workout routines. After finishing the preliminary workout routines, customers meet with their coach. Then, every week customers meet with their coach to maneuver nearer to their targets.

All through the week, customers have to finish a collection of actions, starting from new meditation experiments to reworked morning routines.

Most of Shimmer’s customers are between the ages of 20 and 50. Among the most typical struggles that individuals work by way of on the platform are time administration, emotion resilience and regulation, self acceptance and self-worth, behavior and routine formation, procrastination, motivation and common productiveness.

Since its launch a bit over a yr in the past in October 2022, Shimmer coaches have held over 15,000 teaching periods. The platform is offered on iOS, Android and the net.

As for the brand new funding, Shimmer plans to make use of it to work with supplier, payor, and employer companions to scale back the out-of-pocket price for members to entry ADHD teaching. As well as, the startup will leverage AI to make coaches extra environment friendly with out sacrificing authenticity.

The startup’s seed funding included participation from Aglaé Ventures, Koa Labs, and Gaingels. The newest funding spherical brings Shimmer’s whole funding to $3.5 million.

By way of the long run, Shimmer needs to facilitate all kinds of neuro-types of their private growth journey. Though Shimmer began out with ADHD companies, the startup has already begun serving to customers with Autism. The corporate’s purpose is to quickly serve varied intersecting communities with teaching and different private growth experiences and instruments.

“From a expertise standpoint, we’ll be persevering with to put money into utilizing expertise to scale and enhance the components of non-public growth and training the place actual people are higher at, whereas automating tedious, repetitive duties,” Wang stated. “We see a close to future the place all neurodiverse people are utilizing Shimmer, seamlessly built-in into their lives, to succeed in their targets.”

Shimmer plans to proceed to teach the broader group on easy methods to create extra inclusive areas and assist their neurodiverse colleagues and family members. The startup’s future roadmap consists of company coaching, group assist and extra.