Mental health startup Orbiri raises £320k in oversubscribed angel round
This article covers the angel funding round on 15 October 2025 for London-based Orbiri, a startup offering a community-powered solution to align schools, parents and children around shared digital limits, founded by Jason Michaelides and Alessandro Agosto. The company raised £320k in an oversubscribed round led by a syndicate of angel investors and supported by 14 individual investors.
What does Orbiri do?
Orbiri is a community-based digital platform that lets parents, schools and children adopt shared screen time limits. It coordinates and applies shared device limits across families and schools to normalise healthy digital habits.
Why is Orbiri useful?
Problem
Parents and schools face daily conflicts and inconsistent smartphone rules that make enforcing healthy screen time impossible. This leaves children exposed to harmful social media effects and parents isolated in the enforcement role.
Solution
Orbiri explains that it unites parents, schools and children around shared, preset digital limits delivered through a single community platform. This collective approach turns peer pressure into support, removing the burden from individual parents.
How much did Orbiri raise?
Orbiri raised £320k in an oversubscribed angel round. This makes it the 41st largest funding round in October 2025 (40 recorded). As of 15 October 2025, the round is the 495th largest of the year (512 total) in the Startupmag database.
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Who invested in Orbiri?
Key investors in the round included the following backers.
- Jason Michaelides: An angel investor with a background in consulting and the founder and CEO of Orbiri.
- Alessandro Agosto: An angel investor and co‑founder who helped develop the community-led approach as a parent collaborator.
- 14 individual investors: A syndicate of 14 angel investors who participated in the oversubscribed round to support Orbiri’s trial phases and planned rollout.
In the funding announcement, Jason Michaelides from Orbiri said:
Every parent knows the feeling of being stuck in daily device battles – you set the rules for your child but their friends don’t have any, so suddenly you’re the mean parent. But I know from experience with my own children and their screen time that these rules are absolutely essential not just to preserve the conditions necessary for healthy childhood development, but to teach them good digital habits that’ll protect them while they’re online.
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Who founded Orbiri?
The founders of Orbiri are Jason Michaelides and Alessandro Agosto.
In the funding announcement, Jason Michaelides, founder and CEO of Orbiri explained:
“Every parent knows the feeling of being stuck in daily device battles – you set the rules for your child but their friends don’t have any, so suddenly you’re the mean parent. But I know from experience with my own children and their screen time that these rules are absolutely essential not just to preserve the conditions necessary for healthy childhood development, but to teach them good digital habits that’ll protect them while they’re online.
The company continued that he left a career in consulting to found Orbiri and said parents cannot win acting alone, framing the issue as a systemic challenge that requires collective action.
In the funding announcement, Jason Michaelides, founder and CEO of Orbiri said:
“Kids don’t hate limits – there’s growing evidence that many children actually want them. What they hate is being the only one with limits,.
The company continued that when a child’s school, their friends’ families and their household all align around the same boundaries the struggles disappear and children stop fighting limits; it said this explains the interest from schools and parents, and added that collective action leads to shared boundaries which children adapt to rather than resist. The company also noted that smartphones have practical benefits over basic phones for tasks such as managing pocket money, planning travel and tracking exercise, and argued that embedding good usage practices across whole communities can help balance analogue and digital childhoods.
Where is Orbiri based?
Orbiri is based in London, UK.
What sector is Orbiri in?
Orbiri operates in the mental health sector. The sector focuses on supporting people's emotional and psychological wellbeing. It helps families and communities manage children's digital habits and protect wellbeing.
Key trends and challenges in Mental Health:
Rising youth mental health concerns linked to digital life
More young people report anxiety and low mood, often linked to heavy social media use, prompting school phone bans.
Gaps in access and workforce capacity
Waiting lists remain long, for example referrals often wait months for specialist treatment.
Proliferation of digital mental health tools with mixed evidence
Thousands of apps promise help, but many lack strong evidence and raise privacy concerns.
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