Healo Wins Matrix Best Startup Award Runner-Up at TiE
Learn how Healo secured runner-up recognition at the Matrix Best Startup Award at TiE for mental health innovation.
About TiE and the Matrix Best Startup Award
TiE — The Indus Entrepreneurs — is one of the world's largest and most respected entrepreneurial networks, active across more than 60 chapters in 14 countries. Its awards carry genuine credibility within the startup ecosystem, evaluated by experienced investors, operators, and domain leaders who assess ventures on the quality of their execution, business model rigour, and demonstrable market impact.
The Go-To-Market category specifically recognises startups that have shown exceptional clarity of strategy and strength of execution in reaching their audience, building sustained market presence, and translating that presence into real-world outcomes. For a mental health company navigating a space defined by stigma, low help-seeking behaviour, and deeply fragmented access, earning recognition in this category carries particular weight.
What the Award Reflects
Healo's runner-up placement is a direct validation of Infiheal's approach to one of the most difficult go-to-market challenges in healthcare: building trust with individuals who have historically been failed by, or excluded from, traditional mental health systems.
Reaching users in this space requires more than distribution; it requires culturally sensitive communication, anonymous and affordable access, and consistent evidence that the product delivers. Healo answers each of these. Available in 93 languages, HIPAA-compliant, and ISO 27001-aligned, it has been used by over one million people, with 91 per cent reporting improvement in how they felt. That is a go-to-market outcome grounded in clinical substance.
Supported by TiE Since the Global Summit 2024
Infiheal's relationship with TiE is one built over time. Founder and CEO Srishti Srivastava first represented Infiheal at the TiE Global Summit 2024, where the company's vision for accessible, stigma-free, AI-powered mental healthcare gained early recognition within the ecosystem. The Matrix Best Startup Award is the natural progression of that relationship, a reflection of sustained credibility rather than a single-moment win.
Srishti's profile as an IIT Bombay and Cornell University alumna, combined with Infiheal's clinically validated AI frameworks, has positioned the company as one that earns institutional trust through depth, not just scale.
A Signal for the Sector
Mental healthcare in India remains critically under-resourced. The treatment gap is vast, stigma remains a structural barrier, and affordable, quality care is out of reach for most. Healo was built precisely to close that gap, and TiE's recognition in the Go-To-Market category signals that the approach is working.
Being acknowledged by one of the world's foremost entrepreneurial bodies, on the basis of real execution and measurable impact, places Infiheal firmly among the ventures building healthcare infrastructure that India genuinely needs.
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