Siggy raises $6 million to put AI between psych visits — with a clinician still making every call

Siggy, a New York mental-health startup co-founded by Journey Clinical's Jonathan Sabbagh and Nurx's Edvard Engesæth, said it raised $6 million in a Village Global-led pre-seed and is launching an AI-assisted, clinician-supervised psychiatry service with a daily Siggy Score.

Psychiatry's dirty secret is the empty month between 15-minute med checks. Siggy's bet is that AI can fill that gap with memory and a daily score, while a licensed clinician still owns the prescription pad. $6 million is a pre-seed, not a moonshot — but the founders already scaled Nurx and Journey Clinical, and the insurance-first pitch is the difference between a wellness toy and something a patient can actually use.

Siggy raised $6 million in pre-seed funding led by Village Global. A pre-seed is the earliest outside money. This is the company's first outside capital. The founders began building in late 2025. The company recently began accepting paying patients, ahead of the public launch. Those lines are Siggy's, in the launch release carried by Fitt Insider and in a Crunchbase News interview the same day.

Jonathan Sabbagh is chief executive. He co-founded Journey Clinical and is now its executive chairman. Edvard Engesæth, MD, is chief operating officer. He co-founded Nurx, and he says Nurx scaled past 2 million patients and a $100 million revenue run rate before merging with Thirty Madison in 2022. A revenue run rate takes recent revenue and stretches it across a year. Jake Bourke, previously at Coinbase and SimpliSafe, is chief technology officer. Daniel Montville, MD, is chief medical officer. Those lines are from the launch and the Crunchbase interview. The Nurx scale is what Engesæth says.

Repeat backers of the founding team include Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures, Mercury co-founder Immad Akhund, Toyin Ajayi of Cityblock Health via Coalition Operators, PsyMed Ventures, and Christina Sass of Andela. Also in: Andrew Parker of Papa, Thirty Madison co-founders Steven Gutentag and Demetri Karagas, Daft VC, Mystic Ventures, and angel Gokul Rajaram. Those names are from the launch coverage.

A patient starts with a free AI conversation that builds a history. Then a licensed clinician diagnoses and can prescribe on a video visit. Between visits, the patient talks with Siggy's AI and does a one-minute daily check-in on sleep, mood, medication, and how the body feels. Wearables feed a daily Siggy Score out of 100 that both the patient and the clinician can see. Apple Watch and Oura are in. Whoop is coming soon. Weekly check-ins run through the first eight weeks. The clinician makes every diagnosis, every prescription, and every treatment decision. Siggy flags pattern changes to that clinician. The AI does not diagnose or prescribe on its own. Those lines are the company's. The company site is siggymd.ai.

Siggy says it accepts commercial insurance in all 50 states. Commercial insurance is a private health plan. The company names Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, and Humana among the plans, and says that reaches roughly 80 percent of insured Americans. That 80 percent figure is the company's, in the launch release. Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts are accepted. Those are the tax-favored accounts people use for medical bills. Care is permanently free for veterans. The company is expanding into government insurance. It does not prescribe controlled substances, the drugs the government tightly limits. It is not a crisis service. Those lines are Siggy's.

Jonathan Sabbagh said: "Our mission is to end the mental health crisis, and treatment only works if people stay in it. No human team can give continuous, personalized care to millions of people, but with AI it's finally possible." Edvard Engesæth told Crunchbase: "AI helps maintain the conversation and organize what patients share, so clinicians have a richer picture of the person that they're treating." Those quotations are theirs.

The money goes to hiring clinicians and engineers, developing the software, and working on regulatory requirements. Those lines are the company's.

The picture is a Siggy telehealth video call: a clinician in a white coat waving on a visit, with the patient in an inset. The credit is Siggy.

In plain terms, the founders of Nurx and Journey Clinical raised $6 million to launch a psychiatry service that keeps a daily score and a running conversation between short visits. A licensed clinician still makes the diagnosis and writes the prescription. The company says commercial insurance works in all 50 states, and veterans pay nothing.