Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award: An Interview with Luciana Carvalho

The following interview was carried out with Luciana Carvalho from Inia Health as part of the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, which myGwork proudly sponsors.

Can you tell us about yourself and your company?
I describe myself as a learner, maker, systems thinker, and tech innovator – a proponent of change and tech for good. My background is: Law degree from Cambridge University; Graduate in Systems Thinking and International Business from Harvard and HULT Int. Business School; specialised in PM, Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid Training and currently Human-Computer Interaction. I spent 9 years+ working in BD, Marketing & Operations at award-winning startups and global agencies – in the fields of big data, cybersecurity, AR/VR and digital transformation. Passionate about cutting-edge tech and evangelizing its applications in Health and Education, I’m also a seasoned keynote/TEDx speaker at the intersection of D&I, mental health and new technologies i.e. “Hacking the brain using VR”.

Inia Health is a social enterprise democratising Stress, Anxiety and Depression awareness and facilitating diagnostics and interventions, achieving +200,000 completed assessments in less than 2 years and an average of +10k users a month). We’re working with companies – like CPB Contractors – on supporting their strategic mental health & wellbeing efforts, and recently partnered with Koa Health, a leading UK provider to bring their Foundations wellbeing and resilience training app to as many people as possible. I have a long history of depression, generalized anxiety disorder and eating disorders since the age of 16, so am on a personal mission to revolutionise the way we do things in psychology & psychiatry.