Who this is
Kimberly Breuer is a psychologist who coached clients from 18-year-olds to a BMW manager while still studying. After stints at FreightHub (now Forto) and Rocket Internet, she co-founded Likeminded in Berlin in 2020, a mental health platform. It started with psychologist-led online group sessions for consumers, pivoted to B2B at the end of 2021 and grew from zero to one million in ARR in its first year. In 2024 Likeminded merged with Berlin competitor nilo.health to form nilo; Kimberly left the company in 2025 and sold her shares to the existing investors in a secondary, a personal seven-figure exit without a company sale. Today she supports founders as a mentor and angel, builds AI agents, is developing a dental practice concept with her sister and is launching her own podcast on psychology and business.
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Who is Kimberly Breuer?
Kimberly Breuer is a psychologist who co-founded Likeminded, a mental health platform, in Berlin in 2020. After pivoting to B2B the company grew to one million in ARR in its first year, and in 2024 it merged with nilo.health to form nilo. In 2025 Kimberly left the company and sold 95 percent of her shares to the existing investors. Today she is a mentor, angel investor and builds AI agents. To the episode →
How did Kimberly Breuer exit without a company sale?
In the merger of Likeminded and nilo.health there would have been six founders at the table, and Kimberly's stake had fallen below ten percent after dilution. She negotiated the right to find an investor to buy her shares and pitched a company with cash in the bank, nearly profitable and ten million in revenue. In the end the existing investors bought her out. She sold 95 percent of her shares and took out a seven-figure sum. To the episode →
How does Kimberly Breuer use Claude as a coach?
She has prompted Claude to act as a systemic coach that thinks along the lines of Ray Dalio, Esther Perel and Brené Brown, is challenging, questions her statements, uncovers patterns and is tough with her. She chats with it and writes down all her doubts. What matters to her is having done coaching with real people first; otherwise the AI just confirms everything you say. To the episode →
What does Kimberly Breuer say about psychedelics?
Until 29 she was completely against them as a psychologist, then experimented with microdosing and retreats herself because of the growing body of research, and changed her mind. In a guided setting, psilocybin and LSD could accelerate insights that would otherwise take years of therapy. But she is clear that people with depression or emotional instability should never experiment on their own, or they risk falling into an even deeper hole. To the episode →
Quotes
„Also ich würde heute sagen, ich würde viel schneller pivoten.““Today I would say I would pivot much faster.”
„… Das motiviert mich nicht mehr ausreichend, um die Firma jetzt nochmal in das nächste Jahrzehnt zu bringen.““That no longer motivates me enough to carry the company into the next decade.”
„Weil ich würde sagen, fünf bis acht Jahre können wir unseren Körper durch sowas durchprügeln.““Because I would say we can push our bodies through something like that for five to eight years.”
„Ich habe Emotionen, aber ich bin nicht meine Emotionen.““I have emotions, but I am not my emotions.”
„… man kann Menschen mehr Wahrheit zutrauen, als man glaubt.““You can trust people with more truth than you think.”