Founder, Mental Jam
Programs: named to Breakthrough Victoria's Breakthrough Fellowship Program (2025) (a place in a program cohort, not a position there).
Stories naming Dr Michelle Chen. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Victorian pre-seed program BVUIP, backed by Breakthrough Victoria and seven universities, has funded startups EntroMat, Excelligent and Remagine Labs, plus fellowship grants for three PhD-led ventures.
Q&A with a Breakthrough Victoria fellow reflecting on her early months building Mental Jam, a mental-health games startup, and her plans to apply for an AEA grant.
Breakthrough Victoria has chosen three academic founders for its new fellowship, providing each with $150,000 to help commercialise research in mental health, IVF and skin cancer detection.
Breakthrough Victoria announces the first three fellows of its $7.5 million fellowship, giving each researcher $150,000 and support to turn research into startups in mental health games, IVF imaging and skin cancer detection.
Breakthrough Victoria's fellowship has put $150,000 into Mental Jam, whose mobile games build emotional coping skills; the fellowship is a $7.5 million Victorian initiative to create up to 50 research startups.