Syndi Health

01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Syndi Health was a London-based digital health startup founded in November 2020 by Ben Lakey and Jorge Alexander within Entrepreneur First's London 15 cohort, after both founders waited over 10 months to access mental health support themselves. It built a medically approved, patent-pending AI platform - the digital infrastructure for hyper-personalised health support inside organisations: assessing and matching users to effective, immediate digital health services (starting with mental health apps), monitoring outcomes, and enabling reimbursement by employers and insurers. It raised about $2.25 million (including a GBP 1.65 million pre-seed with angels like ex-AXA Global Health CEO Damien Marmion, DataTiger founders Phil Mohr and Puli Liyanagama, and Baron O'Shaughnessy, plus Innovate UK grants). In May 2025 it was acquired by UK healthtech platform HealthKey, which integrated Syndi's technology into its personalisation engine.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

1. 2020
   Company founded

   Syndi Health was founded in London within Entrepreneur First's London 15 cohort by Ben Lakey and Jorge Alexander to build AI-driven digital health recommendation and reimbursement infrastructure.

2. 2023
   Pre-seed round

   Syndi Health raised GBP 1.65 million (USD $2 million) in pre-seed equity and grant funding from health/tech/insurance angels and Innovate UK.

3. 2025
   Acquired by HealthKey

   In May 2025 UK healthtech platform HealthKey acquired Syndi Health to deepen its AI capabilities and personalisation engine in the employer wellbeing space.