our story 🌱
TheraBuddy originated from winning the Most Creative Award at a hackathon in 2022 - Lund Innovation Challenge. In 2023, our founder Tingquan Liu, and co-founder José Antonio Tamayo established TheraBuddy from the ground up to help people with mental struggles and build long-term resilience.
Since then, we've made rapid progress and gained industry recognition:
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Winner of Venture Cup Idea 2023
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Innosuisse Approval
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Nordic Booster Boards
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Global Top 15 Startups by Startup Universe
We’ve also been selected for prestigious acceleration programs:
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The Break Program (supported by the European Union and the Spanish Government)
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Summer Innovation Sprint (funded by the European Union and supported by Minc Incubator)
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Launch Control Program (from Home of Innovation, organizer of Startup Nights, Switzerland's largest entrepreneurial event)
founding team 🐨
Tingquan is a serial entrepreneur and has been a tech innovator for 9+ years. She has strong and comprehensive academic backgrounds in entrepreneurship, technology, and digital health. More importantly, like many, she is a patient of mental disorder too. You're NOT ALONE. ❤️
José has been a senior psychologist for over 20 years with both academic experience and clinical practice. He specializes in social anxiety treatment and has implemented psychoeducation on patients for many years. More importantly, Jose cares about patients and our future generations. ❤️