Our story
We didn't build MyAtlas because we saw a market. We built it because we felt the gap.
Every person on this team has lost someone to mental health. That's not a founding story we chose. It's the one that chose us.
Why we're here.
We all met at Northeastern University, a group of people who, without knowing it at the time, shared the same wound.
Each of us had watched someone we loved struggle inside a mental health system that kept them in care without getting them better. Each of us had felt the particular helplessness of watching someone disappear slowly, in plain sight, while the system designed to help them kept asking them to come back next week.
We lost people. Not abstractions. People we knew, people we loved, people whose absence still shapes how we move through the world.
What we're here to do
To make long-term therapy the exception, not the rule, by giving every patient the intelligence, the care, and the finish line they deserve.
The team
The people building it.
Nita Akoh
Founder and CEO
Background in behavioral neuroscience. Before founding MyAtlas, worked at the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health using fMRI neurofeedback to reduce auditory hallucinations in people with schizophrenia, and as a life science consultant at IQVIA and Putnam Associates. BHT Top Young Innovator in Behavioral Health. Halcyon Fellow.
She built MyAtlas from personal loss and the conviction that the system is fixable — and that the fix starts with giving people a finish line.
Dr. Aarti Sathyanarayana, PhD
Chief Science Officer
Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, jointly appointed in the College of Health Sciences and College of Computer Science. Director of the SATH Lab. Affiliate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and MGH/Harvard Medical School. Past: Apple, Intel, Mayo Clinic. PhD in Computer Science, University of Minnesota — Doctoral Dissertation Award.
She is the scientific foundation that MyAtlas is built on — and the reason every claim we make is one we can defend.
Nicole
Chief of Product
Neuroscience background. Product intuition built from years of understanding how the brain actually works, not just how users behave. The reason MyAtlas feels like it was designed for humans, not for a use case.
She translates science into experience.
Mofe
Head of Engineering
2x founder with a successful acquisition and a decade at Google. The architect of the platform — the person who took a vision for what behavioral health technology could be and made it real, scalable, and defensible.
He builds things that last.
Advisors
The people behind us.
Roy Liu
Hercules Capital
Strategic advisor on growth, capital structure, and the path from pilot to scale.
Felipe Jain
Harvard Psychiatry
Academic and clinical advisor whose research shapes how MyAtlas thinks about outcomes, measurement, and evidence.
Shea Tate Di Donna
Advisory Board
Strategic advisor bringing deep expertise in behavioral health innovation and organizational growth.
Marc Meyer
Advisory Board
Advisor on product strategy, market positioning, and the intersection of technology and clinical care.
What we believe about mental health care.
We believe therapy works. We also believe the way it's currently delivered doesn't. Not consistently, not at scale, and not for the people who need it most.
We believe the finish line is not a nice-to-have. It is the point. A system that measures success by attendance is a system that has confused the process for the goal.
We believe data should work for patients, not just about them. The behavioral intelligence MyAtlas generates belongs to the person it describes, and it should be used to get them better, not to keep them engaged.
We believe therapists deserve better tools. The most skilled clinician in the world is operating with one hand tied behind their back when they only see a patient for 50 minutes a week and have no visibility into the other 10,030. MyAtlas exists to untie that hand.
And we believe the best outcome in mental health care is the one where you don't need us anymore. We celebrate graduation. We're building toward a world where it's the norm.
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If this resonates, we'd love to hear from you.
Whether you're a patient, a clinician, a potential partner, or someone who has felt this gap personally, our door is open.