Bridge Builders Collaborative's next chapter on investing and leading the mental wellness field

1. Our next chapter:
From mind-training to deeper models of mental,
social, spiritual well-being.

2. Bridge Builders Collaborative (BBC) was founded in 2012 by
three investors who asked whether the science of mind-
training had achieved enough validation where applications
would form to scale the science.
We came together to help fund companies creating
mindfulness and mind-training solutions through technology.
Our collaborative has grown to seven partners, who have
made 12 investments together. We’ve backed some of the
most seminal investments in the space.
Here’s some of the social change that we have
supported:
• Mindfulness is going mainstream.
• Software is being approved by the FDA to treat medical
conditions.
• Behavioral Health platforms are being integrated into
corporations, insurance cos., and health care systems.
• Relationships are forming based on stated needs to find
people who share passions for yoga, mindfulness,
authenticity.
• Software that helps detect lack of knowledge and
improves short term memory is saving lives in hospital
systems.
• Research into better ways of treating addiction.
• Accelerated translation of brain science.
Our story

3. Increasing valuations
$100 M valuations
5 of BBC companies achieved $100M valuations
(3 have achieved $300M valuations)
Board representation
On 8 of 12 Boards
BBC investment statistics
5-7 financing per year
15 investments
All companies still operating
Average 1.25 new deals per year
Amount invested
Roughly $44M invested
($86 M current valuation)
Financings
Participated in 47 financings
5-7 financing per year

4. Investment Experience
Over 120 years
9 Hearts
We value our minds, and try to live from our hearts
Champions
Our partners have fueled many global impact
movements
About our group
100 years
Contemplative Practice
20 industries
Our partners have led in a wide range of businesses
Experience at scaling
We’ve led multiple global scaled enterprises

5. Having created impact, fueled a global
movement, and created return on
investment, Bridge Builders now is taking
the next step…to reground ourselves as
bridge builders to deeper human
experience. We strive to be a collaboration
for fueling deeper shifts in humanity—from
awareness to integration, personal to social
wellness, and from faster alone to better
together. Drawn from the wisdom of the
ages. Grounded in science.
The Next Chapter:
Deeper

6. From
Mindfulness
Headspace
Mindful people
Science of mindfulness
Mind training
Awareness
On the mat
Talk therapy
Symptoms
Mind and body
Personal wellness
Seekers
Self centered
Invitations
Raising productivity
Help yourself
To
Behavior change
InsightTimer
Conscious communities
Science of subtle energy
Mental wellbeing
Integration
Off the mat
Psychedelic intervention
Root Causes
Mind Body Spirit
Social wellness
Finders
Collective centered
Deep experience
Raising consciousness
Journey beyond yourself
The shifts we envision

7. Our unique value
Intention
We believe in abundance.
We are united in our intention to
build bridges to abundance. For
everyday people, for
entrepreneurs, and for investors
in their future.
Trust
We’ve built the trust needed for
big change to happen. Equal
parts character and
competency. Being worthy of
trust is core to who we are.
Network
Transformational change is a
collaboration. We’re committed
to putting the depth and breadth of
our network of collaborators
to work in everything we do.
Our 4 Cs of value add
1. Connection
2. Counsel
3. Credibility
4. Cash

8. To inspire and
invest in tools for
inner wellbeing
bridging
the human energies
that make
social change
possible.
Our mission
We see our role as more than capital
investors, we believe we can create even
greater impact by inspiring conscious
entrepreneurs to join the movement.
We hold the belief that
inner wellbeing is a bridge
to social wellbeing.
The first courageous step of the
movement was to get millions of
people on-the-mat. The next is a
conscious action.
Products are tools. Communities are
tools. Science is a tool. Now is the time to
think expansively about the tools needed
to deepen our experience of what it
means to be human.
The inner journey helps you touch your
authentic self. It enables you to free
yourself from trauma, conditions, and
adverse experiences.
Bridge Builders is committed to the long
haul work of illuminating—and realizing—
the vast possibilities we have to create
social change.
Inner work helps us recognize something
deeper in the other and moves us beyond
polarizing ‘us and them’ attitudes that are
common in social change. It awakens our
deeper human essence.

9. 1 Billion+ minutes of mindfulness per year
More meditation done on Insight Timer every year than all other meditation apps…combined
The largest EEG database in the world
More than 100 million minutes of EEG brain recordings from Muse users
Launching the Social Wellness category
Investing in Fabriq – helping drive social connection
Saving $3,000 per employee per year with Applied Mindfulness
$7 M research (2 studies) on eMindful by Aetna on employees with metabolic syndrome (New York Times)
The first FDA approved software for treating addiction
Pear receives FDA approval for its reSet and reSet O digital therapeutics (Reuters)
Inspiring results
From our company investments

10. Chapter 1: Mind Training
“Ripening to Harvest”
Chapter 2: Deeper
How we define ‘deeper’ deals?
Addiction
Tools
MIndsciences
Mindfulness
Headspace—Consumer
eMindful—B2B
Interaxon
Knowledge/Memory
Knowledge Factor
Personal
Growth
Gloo
Behavioral
Health
Happify
Digital
Therapeutics
Pear Therapeutics
Happify
Consciousness Social
Wellness
Fabriq
Psychedelics Mental
Wellbeing
Subtle
Energy
Trauma/Behavior
Change
Brain/Mind
Community Building
Insight Timer
Commune
Emotional
Inteligence
Oji Life Labs
Oui Therapeutics
Tru Luv

11. The entrepreneurs
we support (sample)
Christopher Plowman
CEO Insight Timer
Sydney
• Previous co-founder of 2 companies.
• Invested to support monetization of
large platform
• Providing income and voice to 6,000+
teachers, globally
• How do we create the largest
conscious community on the planet?
Amy Baglan
CEO Fabriq/MeetMindful
Denver
• 2nd time founder, w/ previous
experience in sales, marketing, social
connection
• Invested to support growth of
relationship platform.
• Supporting the creation of the Social
Wellness category
• Helping improve social connections
Tomer Ben-Kiki (CEO, Happify)
Ofer Leidner (President)
New York
• Former gaming entrepreneurs who
successfully built/exited company
together.
• Co-founded Happify to bring science of
mindfulness, positive psychology, CBT
• Now scaling to become a global digital
health company
Mary Pigatti
CEO eMindful
Orlando
• Former CEO Retrofit (successful exit to
Livongo)
• Deep career in health care including
Limeade, J & J, Optum
• Hired by board in 2019 to help grow
eMindful

12. Our collaborative:
Each adding unique
value to the whole
Scott K.
Relationships
• Generative Energy
• Authentic Leadership
• 1440 Scott B.
Personal Growth
• Relationships
• Champions
• Gloo
Bo/Oleg
Consciousness
• China
• Evolve Foundation
• Conscious
Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurship
Austin
Business Growth
• Community
• Experimentation
• Media
Jeff
Collab/Social
Change
• Reducing Suffering
• Subtle Energy
• System Entrepreneur
John
Brain Tech/
Mental Wellness
• EEG
• Education
Eric
Mental Wellness &
Decision Making
• Education
• Risk Management
?
Charlie
Collaborative Glue
• Managing Partner
• Strategy
• Support CEOs
• Deal flow

13. Our powerful network
BBC & Partner
Investments
Corporate
Leaders
Scientists
Policy Makers
Non-Profits
Gathering
Places
Universities
BBC

14. Community of practice
Does it tap the transformative power of working with others?
Consciousness of the leader
Are the actions of the leader aligned with the values of the tool?
Collective wellbeing
Does the tool acknowledge or inspire social wellness?
Change
Is the tool designed to change behaviors, mindsets,
and or the stories we tell ourselves.
4 Cs of what we look for

15. Social Screen
We first ask what we can imagine to be the positive impact to humanity if we invest
Science
We seek to understand if there is scientific validation for the product or platform
Entrepreneur
We look for collaborative, integrated leaders with managed egos who are skilled at scaling.
Stage
We provide growth capital, normally in Series A. We tend to follow on through several rounds.
Return on investment
We look for opportunities that can create meaningful returns for investments
Our investment consideration

16. Happify
• 336% ROI since initial investment in 2014
• Scaling as Digital Health company
• Launched 2 agreements with pharma and
pursuing FDA approval
• Work with Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Cigna
& others on global basis.
Gloo Holdings, LLC
• 1st investment in early 2014
• Share price has increased from 3.75x.
• BBC partner Scott Beck is CEO & founder.
Scott Kriens is also BOD.
• Passionately supporting personal growth
journeys.
• Actively scaling in church & recovery space
Insight Timer
• 1st investment 1/18.
• Share price has increased 130% since then.
• Recently closed $20M A round
• Platform supports 6,000+ global spiritual
teachers, musicians, scientists
• Community has grown to 11 M meditators
Pear Therapeutics
• 10x initial investment which was 2014
• Company has become pioneer and leader in
DTx category.
• First 2 FDA approved software drugs – for
treatment of addiction
• Applications include software as drug and drug
software combinations
Headspace
• 1st outside investor in the company
• Partial exit at 2x initial investment in 18
months
• Remaining shares at 10x initial investment
• Company revenues now est. at $175m per
year and $850M valuation.
Return on investment examples

17. “Bridge Builders Collaborative has been one of our most value
added investors. They were instrumental in helping us pivot from
a consumer company to one that is now working with leading
organizations around the world, and also entering the medical &
digital therapeutics space.. They have supported us in ways that
most founders dream of, and in ways that are beyond what a lot of
investors do.”
— Ofer Leidner (President, Happify)
Bridge Builders was the first outside investor who could see the
vision we had and the revolution we wanted to create in Digital
Therapeutics. They not only led the bridge to our first round,
they’ve stepped up every round since then.”
— Corey McCann (Founder, CEO, Pear Therapeutics)
“Bridge Builders has shown tremendous support to Interaxon since
they invested in 2012. They have continued to support us, provide
us with connections and insights as our business model has
adapted and as the company has grown. They are still
represented on our board because they continue to add
remarkable value.”
— Derek Luke, (CEO, Interaxon)
Bridge Builders has been an invaluable partner. Whether it’s
strategic insights, great questions, introductions, expertise on
fund-raising, connections, they are always supportive. I can
always call them when I have a question, need input, or want to
bounce an idea off them.
— Amy Baglan (Founder and CEO, MeetMindful/Fabriq)
"Bridge Builders has been supportive, patient, available, and
committed not just to the science behind our solutions, but to
supporting us to get them out into the world.”
— Dr. Judson Brewer (founder, MindScienes)
The investors at Bridge Builders have been a partner with us in
good times and bad. They have listened to what we’ve needed
and been a patient partner in helping us as we pivoted towards a
very exciting opportunity to form our Health Care Alliance.
— Bob Burgin (CEO, Knowledge Factor)
A word from our CEOs

18. Current Partners
Austin Hearst
Chestnut Holdings LLC
Hearst Corporation
Scott Kriens
1440 Multiversity
Previous: CEO Juniper Networks
Jeff Walker
Chairman, New Profit
Previous: JPM Chase
Scott Beck
CEO, gloo
Previous: Blockbuster,
Boston Chicken, Einsteins Bagels
Eric Brooks
Alliance for Decision Education
Co-founder, Susquehanna
International Group
Bo Shao
Evolve Ventures
Founding Managing Partner - Matrix China
John Cammack
Advsior & investor
Previous: T Rowe Price
Charlie Hartwell
Managing Partner — Bridge Builders
Collaborative
Maureen Pelton, MSSW
Co-Founder, ShiftIt Institute

19. Investments