FOUNDER & MENTAL HEALTH ENTREPRENEUR

Based in Auckland, Alex is a registered counsellor (NZAC) who works with families through Plunket and Te Whatu Ora.

Before founding PerkUp, Alex worked at a Silicon Valley startup (YC18), where she helped develop a tele-mental health platform supporting digital nomads around the world.

She is also the founder of Therapy for Migrants, her first mental health company in New Zealand, which provided culturally responsive mental health care for migrants during their resettlement journey. One of the company's community initiatives received funding from the Ministry for Ethnic Communities. In April 2026, the business was acquired by a US-based psychologist and continues to operate in Texas.

Today, Alex is the driving force behind PerkUp, combining her experience as a mental health practitioner and entrepreneur to create practical tools that help children and young adults navigate everyday challenges with greater confidence and resilience.

She is the unstoppable force behind PerkUp and lives by the phrase "The best way to predict the future is to create it".

CO-FOUNDER & CX/UX DESIGNER

Angela is a PerkUp co-founder, and CX/UX lead who is passionate about positively impacting as many people as possible.

With personal experience of trauma, social care and abandonment, Angela advocates that understanding ourselves through therapy is the first step to healing.

Angela is the beating heart of the team and the voice of the people.

CO-FOUNDER

Corrie is a mother of two teenage girls and cares about the pressures they experience everyday, not just from social media. While giving them the tools to cope and manage their way forward to becoming the best person they can be she knows it is not an easy journey. There is a need for other ways for them to achieve this and I want to make that available to everyone.