Limina — Pitch Deck
Preparation & Integration Platform for Psychedelic Care
Participant-owned · Practitioner-connected · Governed for the field
PITCH DECK · 2026
The integration infrastructure for a field that is scaling faster than its support systems.
01 — The moment we are in
The psychedelic care market
is no longer emerging.
6,000+
ketamine clinics in the US
3 states
with legal psilocybin access
$8.3B
projected market by 2028
Phase 3
MDMA trials concluding
The field is producing profound experiences at scale. It has not produced the infrastructure to support what happens next.
02 — The gap
Most people navigate
integration alone.
After the session ends and the retreat closes, participants are left to process one of the most significant experiences of their lives without structured support. The integration period — where lasting change is anchored or lost — is almost entirely unaddressed.
Therapist-led
$150–$300/hr · High quality · Inaccessible to most
Wellness apps
Not designed for this population · No clinical specificity
Nothing
The most common option

No scalable, clinically informed, participant-centered integration platform exists for this field.

03 — Introducing Limina
Three integrated functions.
One platform.

Mina

Free anonymous AI-powered preparation and integration tool. Available to anyone, any time. Built on clinical methodology. Governed for participant privacy.

Practitioner matching

When participants need human support, Mina connects them to a vetted network of licensed, trained practitioners.

Practitioner platform

Professional tier giving network practitioners access to aggregated field data, client tools, and practice development resources.

04 — Meet Mina
She is available at 2am
when nothing else is.
  • Supports preparation before and integration after a psychedelic experience
  • Asks one question at a time — moves at the participant's pace
  • Free · No login · No identifying data collected
  • Available any time — especially when practitioners are not
  • Generates anonymized aggregate field data as a byproduct of genuine support
Mina · Present
Something brought you here. You don't need to have it figured out yet.

What's been present for you since your experience?
I keep having the same image surface. I don't know what it means.
It isn't asking to be solved. It seems like it's asking to be seen.

Where do you notice it in your body?
05 — Participant data sovereignty
Participants own their data.
Full stop.
Mina holds participant data anonymously — not pseudonymously. The platform does not know who participants are. There is no honeypot of identifiable mental health data waiting to be subpoenaed, hacked, or sold.
If a participant wants to share their data with a specific practitioner, clinic, or retreat center — they authorize that release directly. The participant controls it. Always.
For participants
Genuine safety — not a policy
For practitioners
Informed referrals without identity exposure
For regulators
Zero liability profile
For investors
The trust moat competitors cannot replicate

This is not a privacy policy.

It is an architecture.

06 — The practitioner network
Vetted. Trained.
Paid to participate.
01
ApplyPractitioners apply against defined criteria — licensure, KAP training, alignment with the Threshold Covenant.
02
Train or qualifyThose who don't meet criteria are offered a paid training pathway. The network sets the floor. Training brings practitioners to it.
03
Receive referralsQualified practitioners receive warm referrals from Mina when participants are ready for human support.
04
Provide feedbackNetwork practitioners provide structured anonymized outcome data. The dataset grows. The network improves.
05
Access premium tierPractitioners who want aggregate field data, client tools, and practice insights pay for a premium subscription.
07 — The governance structure
Two entities.
One mission.

Limina PBC

Builds the product · Runs the network · Generates revenue · Returns value to investors

Operates within the Foundation's ethical framework as a condition of the license.

Threshold Ethics Foundation

Permanently independent nonprofit · Owns the ethical standards · Governs the data architecture · Sets practitioner criteria · Cannot be acquired by the PBC.

The Foundation's independence is not a constraint on the PBC — it is the reason participants trust the platform, practitioners join the network, clinics license the product, and regulators don't shut it down.

08 — Revenue model
Multiple streams.
All aligned with participant trust.
Revenue streamDescriptionEst. pricing
Mina — participant tierFree forever · Trust foundation · Data engineAlways free
Practitioner listingMonthly subscription to join the network$50–$150/mo
Practitioner premiumAggregate data, client tools, practice insights$200–$400/mo
Training pathwayCurriculum for practitioners who don't qualify yet$500–$2,000
Limina ClinicLicensed integration infrastructure for settings$500–$2,000/mo
Research licensingAnonymized dataset for academic & pharma useTBD by study
09 — Competitive landscape
Limina occupies a position
no one else holds.
LiminaGeneric appsDirectoriesLucy (Fireside)
Psychedelic-specific
Participant-facing
Preparation support
Integration supportPartial
Practitioner matching
Data sovereignty
Independent governance
10 — Why now
The window to build the trusted
integration platform is open.

Settings proliferating

Ketamine clinics in every major city. Psilocybin legal in three states. Retreat centers opening faster than anyone can evaluate.

Regulatory moment

Frameworks are forming now. Organizations that establish credibility before regulation lands are the ones that shape it.

Trust takes time

Participant trust cannot be bought or fast-followed. The platform they rely on for their most vulnerable processing becomes structurally embedded.

First mover in trust infrastructure is not a feature advantage. It is a structural position. Network effects apply. The data compounds. The moat widens.

11 — The founder
Michael VanderWaal,
LCSW
8 years clinical experience · 5 years KAP specialization
Multi-state licensure — MO, MI, KS, LA, FL
Trained through Journey Clinical, CIIS, Polaris Insight Center
Co-founder, Althea NOLA KAP clinic (opening 2026)
Founder, Caring Practitioners Circle — national practitioner network
Director of People, Nola AI

This platform was not designed by a product team that read about psychedelics. It was designed by a clinician who has been doing integration work for five years.

Clinical credibility is the product's first competitive advantage. The founder is the proof of concept.
12 — The ask
Seed round: $300K – $500K
Use of funds
Description
Mina build
Full conversational AI · secure backend · privacy review
Limina Clinic MVP
Multi-tenant platform · practitioner dashboard · reporting
Practitioner network
Vetting system · listing platform · feedback instrument
Founder runway
12 months · first key hire

18-month milestones

  • 500 active Mina participants
  • 100 network practitioners
  • 10 Limina Clinic licensees
  • First dataset published
In exchange: equity in Limina PBC · Board observer seat · Access to Pink Elephant's operator network
The psychedelic care market will produce tens of millions of participants who need support.
Right now, most of them are navigating alone.
Limina changes that — at scale, with clinical integrity, with governance that makes it trustworthy to participants, practitioners, and regulators alike.