The Melbourne startup using AI to help Microsoft address workplace mental health
Mesh Assist has just closed a seed round for its flagship product Simpatico Ai. And it’s already in talks for a larger raise to scale its mental health AI platform globally.
In November last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stood on the stage at the company’s annual tech conference and unveiled a slate of new artificial intelligence products. Behind him, a screen beamed with logos of the companies partnering with the tech colossus on its “AI companion” Copilot.
They included global software companies like Adobe, DocuSign and Calendly, as well as Australian unicorns Canva, Atlassian and Go1. There was also a lesser-known platform built by a 15-person startup working out of Melbourne.
Mesh Assist’s flagship product Simpatico Ai, purpose-built for Microsoft, is a conversational AI platform for the workplace, providing “embedded psychological support” for staff mental wellness.
“They [Microsoft] came to us last year and asked if we’d be interested in working together with them to co-design this application into Teams,” Mesh Assist's CEO and co-founder Alistair Wardlaw told Capital Brief. “They did a global search on all their partners and identified us as one of the only AI-first and AI-focused companies in this space.”
