Pleso Therapy raises €1.2M to expand its online therapy platform in Europe

Pleso Therapy, a European mental health platform that uses AI to match users with the right therapists, has raised €1.2 million to strengthen its presence across Europe.

Pleso Therapy offers a therapist-patient matching system with a transparent pricing model of a single flat rate. Co-founded and led by a licensed psychotherapist, the platform is committed to high-quality service, including rigorous therapist verification. It improves access to therapy while providing professionals with a structured, supportive environment to deliver care.

“Our mission is to offer therapists a stable, accessible income source, and patients high-quality, affordable, and easy-to-access services. With our successful investment round, we’ll leverage our partners’ expertise and resources to accelerate expansion across Europe, including the Baltics, where we aim to become one of the leading online therapy platforms,” said Oleksandr Bondariev, CEO and co-founder of Pleso Therapy

This funding round has attracted several high-profile investors, such as TA Ventures, a global investment fund investing in early-stage tech startups with projects including DeepL. Other investors include Vchasno.Group with notable contributions from Ukrainian boxing world champion Oleksandr Usyk and BADideas.fund, a leading investor from the Baltic region (Riga, Latvia).

“Mental health is one of the top priorities in modern Europe. Pleso Therapy brings together a rare combination: a strong team, a clear social mission, and advanced technology. This is more than just a digital platform — it’s a complete ecosystem for psychological support. At TA Ventures, we’re proud to support this project and are confident in its potential to fundamentally transform the way mental health is addressed across Europe,” said Viktoriya Tihipko, Managing Partner at TA Ventures.

The newly raised funds will support expansion into new European markets, to ensure leadership positions in the CEE - including Baltic countries. As part of its growth strategy, the company already works with local Latvian and Baltics talents, and plans to expand its team with IT developers and product specialists. 

"Oleksandr is a top 1% founder, building in a vertical primed for compounded growth as attitudes and cultural acceptance to therapy and mental health change with new generations. The company has established a leadership position with barely any funding, and demonstrated a smart playbook for launching quickly in new markets, developing moat around quality therapist talent and retention, and outpacing competition in customer acquisition through clever acquisition and monetization strategies. Their vision of moving beyond a geo-bound marketplace and expanding into data-based, productized services for niche verticals has me super bullish on the company's future potential," said Ben Leblois, General Partner at BADideas.fund

At the same time, Pleso is also working to provide B2B offering to companies in search of simple, scalable solutions to support employee well-being. Pleso also plans to launch new features that will make therapy more personalized, intuitive, and effective.

“The Baltics market is undersupplied, and we see a huge demand in providing a consumer-friendly solution with a clear pricing model for both consumers and businesses willing to support their employees. There are great local individual providers, but the B2B segment demands a unified solution  - we offer a tech platform with affordable prices and great selection of verified and only accredited therapists. It is personally crucial for me to build a company which truly cares - we want to provide personalized and friendly solution at scale” explains Oleksandr Bondariev, CEO and co-founder of Pleso Therapy

Pleso currently operates in Poland, Romania, and Ukraine, offering a therapist-patient matching system powered by AI and supported by trained human guides. The therapist selection process is highly rigorous, involving interviews, verification of education and experience, and an assessment of professional practice - less than 10% of therapists are added to the Platform.

Since launch, over 25,000 users have received care via the platform, with close to 200,000 therapy sessions delivered to date.

The founding team includes Oleksandr Bondariev (CEO), Anna Lissova (Chief of Therapy), Oleksii Yakubenko (CTO), and Vitalii Marchenko (Head of Engineering), combining deep expertise in business, technology, and psychotherapy.