Clarigent Health
Year founded: 2018
Top executive: Don Wright, CEO
Website: clarigenthealth.com
Describe your company and the product or service you offer. About 60 million people in the U.S. experiences mental illness each year. Tragically, approximately 50,000 people in the U.S. die by suicide with more than 1.4 million attempts per year. Suicide is now the second-leading cause of death in people ages 10-34. As an important health issue, hospitals, families and government at all levels are looking for ways to provide support and treatment for their loved ones with mental illness.
Clarigent Health is commercializing the first objective suicide, depression, anxiety, and PTSD risk assessment tool that 1) can be deployed in diverse settings, 2) can be administered by any health professional and 3) uses linguistic and acoustic markers to predict risk. Formed in 2018 from technology developed at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, the company is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to study a person’s language and speech patterns to detect warning signs of suicide ideation or other types of mental illness. With preventative care at the forefront of the company’s mission, this startup aspires to revolutionize how everyone from schools to clinicians handle and treat mental illness.
What’s the next big goal on the horizon for your company? With four successful clinical trials completed, our first commercial product – Clairity – is now available for use by mental health professionals. Our focus is now on building our customer base to ensure that this technology is available to help save as many lives as possible.
