Exclusive: Nurx And Journey Clinical Co-Founders Raise $6M For Mental Health Startup Siggy

figure — siggy has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to build a mental health service that uses AI to collect patients’ histories and track progress between appointments with licensed clinicians, the startup told Crunchbase News exclusively. The company brings together two founders who previously built businesses that help patients get treatment outside a traditional doctor’s office.

Jonathan Sabbagh co-founded Journey Clinical, which supports practices offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and Edvard Engesæth co-founded Nurx, which provides birth control and other healthcare services online. Village Global led the financing for New York-based Siggy. Notably, several investors in the round previously backed one or both founders. They include Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures, Mercury co-founder Immad Akhund, and Cityblock Health co-founder Toyin Ajayi, through Coalition Operators. Other participants include PsyMed Ventures, Mystic Ventures and Gokul Rajaram. Jonathan Sabbagh and Edvard Engesæth, co-founders of Siggy. (Courtesy photo) The founders said they began building Siggy in late 2025. The round, which they plan to use to hire more clinicians and engineers, develop the software and work on regulatory requirements, is the first outside funding for the company. The startup recently began accepting paying patients ahead of its public launch, and the founders said they next plan to test the service with paying patients before expanding further. Between appointments Sabbagh, Siggy’s CEO, told Crunchbase News in an interview that the company is addressing a problem he encountered in mental healthcare. Therapists and the clinicians prescribing their patients’ medication often work separately. Patients may see a therapist weekly but have only a brief appointment every few months with their prescriber. This leaves little time or opportunity to discuss changes in symptoms or medication side effects. To address that problem, Siggy uses AI conversations and daily check-ins to gather information clinicians can review between visits. “AI helps maintain the conversation and organize what patients share, so clinicians have a richer picture of the person that they’re treating,” said Engesæth, the startup’s COO, in an interview.