Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health Tech, Mentally Healthy Startups

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Maria Barrera, a Stanford-educated engineer, is the founder and CEO of Clayful, a platform dedicated to providing essential mental health support for the TikTok generation. Today, Barrera’s company creates accessible resources for K-12 students and has already made a profound impact on thousands of students nationwide. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Barrera shares her journey to founding a mental health startup and how she incorporates strategies for mental wellbeing in her life and on her team.

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0:00.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you by Stanford E.Corp.
0:07.6	Welcome, everybody, to this week's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar.
0:12.0	The Stanford Seminar for Aspiring Entrepreneurs, ETL, as you guys know, is presented by STVP,
0:18.7	the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, and Basis, the Business
0:22.6	Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management,
0:27.3	Science, and Engineering Department at Stanford and the director of alchemists and accelerator
0:31.2	for enterprise startups. Today is an especially special ETL. All ETLs are special, but I feel
0:36.8	it's even more special
0:37.9	when we have one of our students returning for a full circle moment as a speaker. And I also feel
0:43.2	like the campus's weather is usually better when it really wants to extend its arms to a special
0:47.7	ETL speaker. And it's a particularly nice day today. And for a good reason, because we have the
0:52.7	pleasure of welcoming Maria Barrera to ETL.
0:56.2	Maria is a Stanford educated engineer. She got her bachelor's and her master's in mechanical
1:00.1	engineering here in 2013, and is the founder and CEO of Clayful. How many people have heard of
1:05.5	Clayful? You can raise your hands. Well, if you haven't, you will very, very soon. So Clayful
1:09.9	is a platform dedicated to providing essential mental health support for the TikTok
1:14.9	generation.
1:16.6	Today, Maria's company creates accessible resources for K-12 students and has already made a
1:22.6	profound impact on thousands of students nationwide.
1:25.4	She's raised $7 million of capital, and it's the only platform
1:29.5	where in 60 seconds you can connect a student to a mentor, especially for their mental health.
1:35.5	Before launching Clayful, Maria played a pivotal role in NIRPOD's extraordinary growth trajectory,
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