Our Team
Clinical expertise and experience, with eight years of professional VR-development.
Co-Founder & CEO
Paula Birger Perkusic
“Relentless to the finish – purpose in action.”
Economist and founder of a multi-entity mental health and addiction care ecosystem, operating across healthcare, training, and international partnerships in the Netherlands, UK, and South Africa. Extensive experience in clinical pathways, case management, recovery coaching, and commercialising healthcare programmes across multiple countries.
Co-Founder & CTO
Rick Evenhuis
“Imagine without limits – build with focus.”
Psychologist and XR-developer with over eight years building immersive therapeutic environments. Founded and operated a private VR therapy practice before building Mauni VR. Combines clinical insight with the engineering depth to deliver what most VR health startups cannot.
Our Philosophy
The MAUNi name and identity are grounded in Ubuntu, the African philosophy of interdependence.
Individual wellbeing is inseparable from community. Technology built on this foundation serves people differently. It listens before it speaks. It supports before it disrupts.
The mission is not VR or AI. We aim for restored souls, stronger communities, and lives lived better than well. Our technology is just how we get there.
Clinical Value before Technology
Adoption is driven by solving real treatment problems. We position MAUNi VR as a clinical tool first. The VR is how we deliver it, but not the point in itself.
Lived Experience in Design
Built by people with backgrounds in addiction treatment, recovery coaching, and immersive technology. Informed by first-hand recovery insight at every level.
Build with the field, not behind closed doors
Every major capability has been co-created with clinicians, clients, and recovery professionals in active settings. The field shapes the product.
AI Subtlety
The AI should be felt rather than dominate. It is a calm and subtle intelligence behind a deeply human therapeutic experience. Ethics, transparency and safety built in at every layer.