Our Journey
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2012 | The Beginning
Two future co-founders, Silvana and Victoria, met during their studies at the University of Osnabrück — Silvana in law and Victoria in cognitive science.
What began as a friendship grew into a shared passion for combining scientific understanding, human empathy, and ethical design.
That spark later evolved into InsightJourney — a vision to make mental health support engaging, evidence-based, certified, and legally compliant.
2019 | Max Planck Institute
At the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, under the supervision of Dr. Falk Lieder, Dr. Victoria Amo developed the first InsightApp prototype within the Rationality Enhancement Group.
This early work combined metacognitive skill training with gameful design, laying the scientific foundation for what would become InsightJourney.
It led to three peer-reviewed publications, demonstrating the app’s potential to foster adaptive emotion regulation, value-aligned behavior, and resilience.
2023 | Collaboration with Stanford University
2025 | OHA Accelerator
2025 | EXIST-Gründungsstipendium
Supported by the University of Osnabrück, Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, and the Department of Artificial Intelligence, InsightJourney received the EXIST Startup Grant.
This recognition underscores InsightJourney’s mission to translate academic excellence into ethical, certified, and scalable innovation — bridging research, technology, and society.
The co-founders joined the OHA Accelerator, advancing InsightJourney’s business strategy and deepening its network within the digital health ecosystem.
This milestone marked a pivotal step toward scaling InsightJourney’s scientific foundation into a broader impact-driven venture.
InsightJourney expanded its academic scope through collaboration with Carol Dweck and James Gross at Stanford University.
Together, the teams developed an intervention targeting beliefs about emotions, blending mindset theory, emotion regulation research, and gamified ecological momentary interventions (EMIs).
The project aims to help people cultivate adaptive emotional beliefs and resilience through playful, real-world digital experiences.
