Funding profile · ADHD and neurodiversity support

Shimmer

$3.5 million raised across two seed rounds, no Form D on record, no round announced since January 2024. The capital picture here is built from press releases, because the securities filings do not exist.

$3.5MTotal reported to date, company and press, Jan 2024
$2.2MSeed, announced Jan 10 to 11, 2024
$1.3MSeed, announced Oct 12, 2022
0Form D filings on EDGAR under the company name

Data as of September 24, 2026. Company-reported figures are labeled.

Rounds at a glance

When Round Amount Investors Source
Summer 2021 Y Combinator, S21 batch Not disclosed Y Combinator YC page
Oct 12, 2022 Seed, described as a party round $1.3M Y Combinator, Honeystone Ventures, Koa Labs, Megan Hall of CVS Health, Gaingels Company release
Jan 10, 2024 Seed $2.2M Co-led by Worklife Ventures and SeedtoB Capital, with Koa Labs, Aglaé Ventures and Gaingels TechCrunch, Business Insider
2024 to 2026 Nothing announced None reported None reported Not found
2017 to 2026 Federal grants None No NIH or NSF award under the company name NIH, NSF

What the filings show

Shimmer, Inc. · no Form D on record

EDGAR full text
Zero hits for the company name across all form types
Form D
None, for either the 2022 or the 2024 round
Only name match
Shimmer Gold, Inc., CIK 0001421538, renamed Absolute Life Solutions in 2010 and Infinity Augmented Reality in 2013. A Nevada shell, unrelated.
Registered office
1015 Fillmore Street #12411, San Francisco, CA 94115, per the terms of service and CB Insights
Reading
Consistent with raising under Section 4(a)(2) rather than Regulation D, which requires no notice filing

Reading the filings

  1. There is nothing to read, and that is the finding.An EDGAR full text search returns zero documents for the company name, and the only registrant that matches is a 2008 Nevada gold shell. Both announced rounds were small and investor counts were low, so a Section 4(a)(2) private placement with no Form D notice is the ordinary explanation. It also means every dollar figure on this page comes from a press release rather than a filing.
  2. The totals do not agree.$1.3M plus $2.2M is $3.5M, which is the figure TechCrunch used in January 2024 and The Business Journals repeated in June 2025. CB Insights carries $4M with a last raise of $2.2M. The $500,000 difference is unexplained and unfiled.
  3. The name is a trap for databases.One venture data aggregator lists this company with a June 2021 Pillar VC round, StartX, and an August 2021 round led by VoLo Earth Ventures, a climate investor. None appear in any Shimmer ADHD announcement. Investor lists here should be taken only from the two dated releases.
  4. Revenue arrived before the second round closed.Business Insider reported in January 2024 that the company had gone from zero to $1 million in annual recurring revenue with two full time employees, the two founders, with coaches engaged as contractors. Against $3.5 million raised, that is roughly $0.29 of revenue per dollar of capital at the time of the raise, with essentially no payroll.
  5. The unit price has risen 2.4 times while the session got twice as long.October 2022: $99 a month for a fifteen minute weekly call. January 2024: $140, $230 and $345 tiers. 2026: one plan at $240 every four weeks for thirty minute weekly sessions. Four week billing means thirteen charges a year, so $3,120 annually rather than the $2,880 that twelve monthly payments would imply, about 8 percent more.
  6. The positioning claim has drifted.The Y Combinator listing still reads 5 to 10 times more affordable than alternatives, a claim built on the $99 plan. The company’s own pricing page now says most ADHD coaching costs $300 to $700 or more a month and that Shimmer is nearly half the price. Against the $150 an hour average reported in JAMA Network Open, nearly half is the defensible number and 5 to 10 times is not.
  7. Thirty two months without a raise.The last announced round closed in January 2024. For a company with recurring consumer revenue and contractor costs, that is as consistent with reaching break even as with a hard market for consumer mental health.

Commercial signals

Signal Detail Source type
Regulatory No FDA clearance and none required. Coaching sold as a non clinical service under terms that disclaim therapy, diagnosis, treatment and crisis support. Public record
Volume 15,000 sessions by Jan 2024, more than 45,000 by Jan 2025, more than 80,000 by Jan 2026, more than 100,000 on the site now. Company-stated
Revenue $1M ARR reported Jan 2024. No figure published since. Business Insider
Cost of delivery Coaches are 1099 contractors asked for 15 to 20 hours of availability a week. A US remote job listing on the YC page posts $20 to $30 an hour. Company-stated
Payment rails No insurance billing. HSA, FSA and HRA eligibility routed through Truemed, with a letter of medical necessity issued after purchase if the buyer qualifies. Company and partner-stated
Second product Indy, a free AI app, launched January 2026 on iOS, Android and Product Hunt. No price attached yet. Company-stated
Clinical evidence No registered trial, no peer reviewed publication, and no trace of the outcomes study announced with the 2024 round. Not found

What to watch

  • A first Form D, which would be the earliest public sign of an institutional round.
  • Any updated revenue or member figure. The session counter is the only metric kept current.
  • Whether Indy gets a price, or stays a funnel into coaching.
  • An employer or payer contract, promised as a use of funds since January 2024 and not yet announced.
  • Publication of the outcomes study, which would change what the company can claim.

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Sources

  1. Public recordEDGAR full text search and company search for the company name, no Form D foundSEC · searched Sep 24, 2026
  2. Public recordShimmer Gold, Inc., later Absolute Life Solutions and Infinity Augmented Reality, CIK 0001421538SEC EDGAR
  3. IndependentShimmer, a platform for 1:1 personalized ADHD coaching, raises $2.2MTechCrunch · Jan 10, 2024
  4. IndependentShimmer is using AI to bring ADHD coaching to adults, an exclusive look at the pitch deckBusiness Insider · Jan 11, 2024
  5. IndependentChristal Wang’s journey from closeted childhood to $3.5 million ADHD startupThe Business Journals · Jun 18, 2025
  6. IndependentCompany profile with total raised, headquarters and 2024 Inc. Female Founders noteCB Insights · accessed Sep 24, 2026
  7. IndependentCerebral acquires Inflow to broaden mental health platform’s ADHD toolkitMedical Device Network · Mar 24, 2026
  8. CompanyShimmer Launches First Affordable ADHD Coaching and Accountability Platform for AdultsAccesswire, carried by AP News · Oct 12, 2022
  9. CompanyShimmer Secures $2.2 Million Seed to Transform Adult ADHD ManagementAccesswire · Jan 11, 2024
  10. CompanyTerms of service, pricing page and Y Combinator company pageShimmer and Y Combinator · accessed Sep 24, 2026
  11. PartnerHSA and FSA eligibility flow for the coaching membershipTruemed · accessed Sep 24, 2026

Compiled from SEC, FDA, NIH, NSF and ClinicalTrials.gov public records and published reports as of September 24, 2026. No Form D notice has been filed under this company’s name, so all amounts here are reported rather than filed. Healthcare Venture Capital Fund holds no position in Shimmer. This page is not an offer to sell or a recommendation to buy any security.