Contact:
Carlos Argüello
CEO and Founder
Sevelyn
712.790.7925
Email: carlos@sevelyn.com

(August 19, 2021) – A pioneering health-care company founded by Grimes, Iowa entrepreneur Carlos Argüello, a native of Nicaragua who emigrated to Iowa as a child, is one of the newest startups on Techstars’ exclusive Midwestern roster.

The accelerator scouts and funds early-stage companies with funding, mentorship and collaboration largely based in Gravitate, a co-working space in downtown Des Moines.

Techstars announced the inclusion of Argüello’s Sevelyn (Sevelyn.com) into the program in a news release.

Sevelyn provides the Latino population mental-health support through its online platform connecting Spanish-speaking people with culturally relatable and highly affordable psychologists and other providers in Latin American countries, places of origin for many immigrant families in the United States.

“Sevelyn was created to bring parity to the inequality minorities in the United States face when seeking mental-health services,” said Argüello, 37, the founder and CEO of Sevelyn. “Our initial focus is Latinos. Latinos face major inequalities when seeking mental-health services. Many therapists don’t speak Spanish or understand the Latino culture. Counseling is expensive, and many Latinos don’t have insurance, which limits them from seeking the mental health services that they need.”

Sevelyn’s telehealth solutions connect Latinos all over the world with licensed-board certified Latino therapy providers located in Latin America who understand the culture, language, don’t require insurance and provide affordable-quality care.

The platform is up and running at Sevelyn.com

With the Iowa pilot rolling, Sevelyn plans to stage growth for a U.S. and then global reach, moving the platform beyond the Spanish-language health-care consumer to hundreds of languages spoken across the world.

Right now, in the wake of the pandemic, and with his background as an advocate for the Latino community, Argüello spies acute mental-health needs right here in the United States for Latinos, many of whom are front-line workers and experienced the horrors, both medical and financial, during COVID-19 — in addition to emotions stemming from racial reckoning in the United States.

“Institutional and systemic barriers keep Latinos from seeking the help they need,” Argüello said. “Latinos in the United States have huge demands for mental-health services.”

Techstars is an American seed accelerator founded in 2006 in Boulder, Colorado. As of 2019, the company had accepted over 1,600 companies into its programs with a combined market capitalization of $18.2B USD. Fewer than 1% of the over 17,000 applicants are accepted. Today, Techstars is rated among the best startup accelerators in the world with many locations in the U.S. and across the globe.

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Carlos Argüello is the CEO and founder of Sevelyn. He’s pictured here at Gravitate in downtown Des Moines, home to a Techstars accelerator program aimed at cultivating early stage companies.

Carlos Argüello is staging development of Sevelyn, a mental-health-services platform he thinks can have a global reach.