Amsterdam-based BRAVR Applied sciences has raised €130k in pre-Seed funding to develop moveable, VR-based psychological resilience coaching for army and civilian personnel.
Designed for scalability, the system goals to supply efficient psychological readiness coaching at unprecedented scale.
“Efficient stress resilience coaching means simulating excessive environments, which is harmful, costly, and normally reserved for particular forces – leaving most recruits susceptible,” says Ken Koontz, Founder and Chief Designer of BRAVR. “This funding permits us to show our demonstration expertise right into a plug-and-play product prepared for testing and analysis. Finally, we’re aiming to offer instructors the instruments to coach and preserve psychological readiness throughout hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officials, firefighters, and NATO troopers.”
Based in 2025, BRAVR Applied sciences has a group spanning Zeeland, Gelderland, and Amsterdam, constructing biofeedback-integrated VR coaching techniques to enhance psychological readiness and resilience.
BRAVR’s system prompts the physique’s stress response utilizing immersive VR, whereas reportedly measuring coronary heart fee variability (HRV) in actual time. This biofeedback is built-in into gameplay, serving to customers recognise and practice their computerized physiological response to emphasize. The purpose is improved efficiency in strain conditions and long-term resilience.
Maj. Common (Ret.) Cornell A. Wilson Jr. of the US Marine Corps, an advisor to the startup, says: “BRAVR affords an fascinating software for NATO troopers and civilians. This software may also help develop a person’s talent to maintain calm throughout chaotic moments, critically assess the scenario, and ship outcomes primarily based on skilled coaching.”
Troopers, police, firefighters face excessive eventualities as part of their job. In keeping with BRAVR, acute stress triggered in these moments can impair decision-making, trigger bodily shutdown, and result in long-term psychological well being points.
“Acute stress can break troopers’ lives lengthy after the battlefield,” says Captain Jens Serup, former head of the Danish Military’s ‘Conduct After Seize’ programme. “Coaching psychological resilience doesn’t simply assist underneath fireplace; it issues in captivity, and after they come dwelling. BRAVR can provide extra of our bravest women and men the abilities to guard themselves and the individuals round them for the long run.”
