Our mission:

Helping anyone, anywhere, reach their full potential by empowering minds.


Everyone is entitled to a beautiful and fulfilled life. Here at Alena, we believe this with every fibre of our existence, and we endeavour to help people improve on it by providing them with an objective glance into working of their minds, and help them go beyond what culture and genetics may dictate their life to be.

We are at the beginning of a long but exciting road of discovery and celebration, and always look forward to welcoming likeminded people into our team. If you love to challenge status quos, enjoy chipping away from impossible until it becomes possible, and care for making the world a better place in a team environment, then come join us! Alena will be your natural home.

 

  • Alena strives to solve the mental health crisis by pioneering new ways to understand the human mind and to become the leading mental health platform.

  • We are proud to be a diverse team, and we celebrate the uniqueness that each of our team members brings. The diversity in experience, opinion, and skillset is the backbone of Alena, which reflects itself well in the ambition and success of our team.

    • We are passionate about supporting people in improving their wellbeing

    • We are pioneers and aim to shape the future of mental health

    • We believe in earning trust by listening, helping, and being transparent

    • We will always respect our users’ privacy and never share their information without their consent, we only use technology for good

    • We believe that inclusivity enriches our team - we therefore foster an inclusive and diverse workplace

  • ❤️ Alena is a compassionate, science-based, and consumer-focused digital platform. We use novel assessments to help users uncover the root cause of major mental health conditions and offer targeted treatment that adapts to their changing needs. The more users engage with Alena, the more personalised their journey gets.

    🎲 Users interact with Alena via short, interactive sessions that include evidence-based therapeutic tools, neuroscience-based games, and validated clinical self-report measures. These sessions allow Alena to better understanding how the user’s mind works and what solutions are likely to work for them - all within a consumer-facing mobile app.

    🔬 Alena's unique approach lies in cutting edge cognitive and computational neuroscience research that underpins the games we create in-house. We have an exciting and growing science team driven by our CEO Mandana Ahmadi, PhD, (an alumnus from the Gatsby Institute, UCL) and leaders in the fields of computational neuroscience and computational psychiatry, Profs Peter Latham and Quentin Huys. On the clinical side, we're working with multiple therapy experts (such as Dr Stuart Linke) who are passionate about making the most effective treatments more accessible to everyone.

    🎉 In the past year we have completed two successful beta testing rounds with an early community of 1500+ users and created a solid base of our target user needs and wants. We have also successfully designed, built, and tested two games that measure specific cognitive drivers of social anxiety with 1400+ participants.

    🥳 Alena recently secured $2.7M in seed funding in a round led by prominent European-based venture capital fund Stride with participation from Re.Mind, a mental health-focused fund.