Funding profile · Online mental health

In Your Corner

A Y Combinator Summer 2014 company that left no Form D, one published revenue figure and a domain sale. The capital record is almost entirely founder-stated, and the debt is the part with the clearest arithmetic.

$418,9752015 gross revenue, founder-reported
$0Raised under Regulation D on record: no Form D was ever filed
$100,000Asked on Shark Tank in 2013 for 30 percent, implying a $333,333 valuation. No deal
$9,000Peak monthly repayments on merchant loans, founder-reported

Data as of September 22, 2026. Company-reported figures are labeled.

Rounds at a glance

When Round Amount Investors Source
2011 Savings, friends and family Not disclosed Founder, friends and family Entrepreneur, 2012
Feb 2013 Shark Tank ask $100,000 for 30 percent None. All five investors passed Broadcast
Late 2012 to early 2013 Outside funding, after taping and before airing Not disclosed Not named Founder interview
Summer 2014 Y Combinator batch Not disclosed Y Combinator YC data
After Demo Day Post accelerator checks Not disclosed Not named. Gust lists Frank Graser, Excell Partners and Startup Labs as previous investors, all marked unconfirmed Company profile
Mid 2015 to 2016 Merchant loans repaid by daily debits on revenue Up to $9,000 a month in repayments Lenders not named Founder-stated
Late 2016 Sale of the company web address after a bidding war Not disclosed Buyer not named Forbes, Jan 2017

What the filings show

SEC EDGAR · no Form D on record · checked Sep 24, 2026

Full text search
Exact phrase Pretty Padded Room: 0 hits
Full text search
In Your Corner plus therapy: 5 hits, all unrelated filers
Company search
No registrant under either name
Records pull
form_d 0, edgar_form_d_mentions 0
Reading
Section 4(a)(2) offerings require no Form D, so the absence bounds the record, not the money

NPPES · NPI 1164764460 · enumerated Mar 25, 2013

Registrant
PRETTY PADDED ROOM, New York, NY
Type
NPI-2, organization, single specialty group
Taxonomy
101YM0800X, Counselor, Mental Health
Doing business as
SAFESPACE
Authorized official
Beatrice Arthur, CEO
Status
Active, last updated Mar 25, 2013

Y Combinator directory · accessed Sep 24, 2026

Batch
Summer 2014
Former name
Pretty Padded Room
Team size
2
Status
Inactive
Listed site
inyourcorneronline.com

Reading the filings

  1. Revenue outran disclosed capital.The only hard number anyone published is $418,975 of 2015 gross revenue, and it is founder-stated. No round size was ever disclosed, in any year, by anyone. A business at roughly $35,000 a month in billings on undisclosed capital is a cash flow story, not a venture story.
  2. The Shark Tank ask sets the only public valuation.$100,000 for 30 percent implies $333,333 post money in February 2013, against $21,000 of sales year to date and $7,500 the prior year. That is about 16 times sales for the year to date and about 44 times the prior year, and all five investors declined at it.
  3. The accelerator is the only verified outside investor.Y Combinator’s own directory confirms the Summer 2014 batch. Every other investor name comes from a Gust profile that marks all three unconfirmed, and none has been reported elsewhere.
  4. The capital that mattered at the end was debt, not equity.Arthur has described merchant loans that take daily debits from revenue, with repayments reaching about $9,000 a month against roughly $35,000 of monthly gross. Close to a quarter of collections was leaving as debt service while the business was trying to fund payroll.
  5. The last liquidity event was an asset sale, not an acquisition.The company closed first. The web address sold afterwards, in a bidding war Arthur described in Forbes in January 2017, and she said the proceeds paid off debt. The operating company was not bought.
  6. The absence of a Form D is the expected result, not a red flag.Accelerator instruments and small angel checks are routinely sold under Section 4(a)(2), which carries no filing obligation. It does mean no independent document states how much this company raised.

Commercial signals

Signal Detail Source type
Pricing $20 introductory session, $40 single sessions, $100 to $200 a month subscriptions in 2012, against a market rate of $200 an hour Independent
Supply Nine licensed women therapists at the 2013 taping, all working as freelancers Independent
Reach Thousands of clients in 39 states and 23 countries, per Forbes in 2016; 30 countries and 42 percent first time therapy users, per Moguldom in 2019 Accounts differ
Payer mix Cash pay only. No insurance, payer or employer contract was ever announced Not found
Clinical evidence No registered trial, no FDA record, no NIH or NSF award and no PubMed indexed paper Not found
Company status Closed in 2016. YC lists the company Inactive. The provider registration remains active and unrevised since 2013 Public record

What to watch

  • Nothing is pending. There is no operating entity and no filing obligation.
  • Whether NPI 1164764460 is ever deactivated. It has been active and unrevised since March 2013.
  • Whether the forward from inyourcorneronline.com to 7cups.com persists, and whether the buyer of the address is ever named.
  • Any later disclosure of what the company raised. None of the three investors on its Gust profile has been confirmed.

The In Your Corner story on Healthcare DiscoveryHealthcare Discovery

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  • Tambua Health: Shared investor: Backstage Capital. A Nairobi founded startup that built a multichannel acoustic stethoscope meant to turn a smartphone into a lung imaging and lung function testing tool
  • Modern Health: Also in Healthcare Services. An employer-bought mental health benefit that sorts staff into coaching, therapy or self-guided content
  • LunaJoy Health: Also in Healthcare Services. A telehealth company built by two physicians to close the gap between a positive mental health screening and actual treatment for women
  • 7 Cups: Also in Healthcare Services. A free chat service that has paired people in distress with volunteer listeners since 2013, with paid therapy sold alongside it

Sources

  1. Public recordSEC EDGAR full text and company searches, Pretty Padded Room and In Your CornerSEC · queried Sep 24, 2026
  2. Public recordNPPES NPI Registry, NPI 1164764460CMS · enumerated Mar 25, 2013
  3. Public recordLive domain check of inyourcorneronline.comSite check · Sep 24, 2026
  4. YC dataY Combinator company directory record, Summer 2014Y Combinator open API · accessed Sep 24, 2026
  5. IndependentNeed to Vent? Forget the Couch, Startup Moves Therapy OnlineEntrepreneur · Aug 19, 2012
  6. IndependentPretty Padded Room Shark Tank Update, Season 4Shark Tank Blog · Feb 12, 2013
  7. InterviewBea Arthur Pretty Padded Room Update InterviewShark Tank Blog · Feb 25, 2013
  8. IndependentHow This Founder Said Goodbye To Her Startup Goonies And Got On With BusinessForbes, Christina Vuleta · Jan 12, 2017
  9. InterviewBea Arthur, Famous Failures podcast interviewOzan Varol · Sep 29, 2017
  10. InterviewBea Arthur Has A Tech Solution For Mental Health CareMoguldom · May 6, 2019
  11. FounderFailing Forward: Lessons Learned From The End Of A StartupForbes, Bea Arthur · Jun 15, 2016
  12. CompanyIn Your Corner company profile, team and previous investorsGust · accessed Sep 24, 2026

Compiled from SEC, CMS and Y Combinator public records and published reports as of September 22, 2026. Form D notices report offerings under Regulation D; no such notice was filed by this company, and offerings sold under Section 4(a)(2) carry no filing obligation. Healthcare Venture Capital Fund holds no position in In Your Corner. This page is not an offer to sell or a recommendation to buy any security.