Aumio Raises €3 Million to Support Children's Mental Health Through Playful Learning
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TLDR
- Berlin-based Aumio raises €3M from byFounders and Partech to expand its gamified children’s mental health app across Europe and the US.
Key Takeaways
- Aumio is a therapeutic audio app for children featuring sleep stories and mindfulness exercises, all content vetted by psychologists and clinicians.
- Over 200,000 families in the DACH region already use the app; the team plans to triple its 10-person headcount with this round.
- The founding team includes a clinical psychologist (Jean), a meditation instructor turned co-founder (Tilman), a children’s UX designer (Felix), and a startup operator (Simon).
- The app’s “learning universe” is designed to be culturally neutral, enabling rapid localization – the English version launched in under three months.
- Germany has one school psychologist per 6,000 children and therapy wait times exceeding six months, illustrating the gap Aumio targets.
Why It Matters
- One in three children now experiences mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, or ADHD, yet institutional support systems are severely overloaded.
- Aumio’s dual-audience design – used by parents and children together – is an explicit product constraint that shapes engagement and retention metrics the company says exceed competitors.
- The five-year vision is a global family mental health platform, positioning the round as early infrastructure for a broad consumer health category.
byFounders · 2025-06-10 · Read the original
