Founder of Selia, Winner of Bad Bunny's Latinx Pitch Competition, On Latinx Mental Health

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🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Jaime Castro took Monday's big prize at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit as a panel of judges, led by Latinx/reggeaton superstar Bad Bunny, voted the cofounder of the mental health app as the winner of the Latinx pitch competition. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone my name is Maria de s santiana I'm a reporter here at Forbes and we're
0:06.6	joined here at the under 30 summit backstage with our Latin next pitch
0:10.7	competition winner Chaima Kast Castro co-founder and C.
0:14.3	Seylea.
0:15.3	Hymet how are you how are you feeling right now?
0:18.0	Great this is kind of surreal right now.
0:20.0	I'm still processing it.
0:22.0	Oh no super happy, super excited that Forbes gave Celia a chance and we came here,
0:28.0	we told everyone about Celia and that, yeah, that they chose us is crazy.
0:33.0	No, I'm glad well let's for everyone who couldn't tune in
0:36.0	and we're gonna kind of switch back a little bit and start what is Celia you know what is the company?
0:40.0	So Celia is a digital health platform and we really want us to connect patients to specialists.
0:46.8	We want to focus on the Latino community and how we can connect them to culturally competent specialists.
0:53.0	Very cool.
0:54.0	And what was kind of what sparked the idea for this?
0:56.0	What's the founding story like?
0:58.0	So one of our co-founder's mom is a therapist.
1:01.0	And during COVID, I think COVID catalyzed a lot of the mental health issues and
1:07.4	kind of the awareness because everyone was so secluded and you know like it sparked a lot
1:12.2	of the issues but his mom is a therapist and she was
1:17.0	having issues connecting with her patients so that's where the idea of creating
1:20.6	kind of a platform for therapists came about like a virtual
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