Headspace Health Announces Acquisition of AI-Driven Mental Health and Wellness Company, Sayana
12.1.2022 16:50:00 EET | Business Wire | Press release
Headspace Health, the provider of the world’s most accessible, comprehensive digital mental health platform, today announced the acquisition of Sayana, an AI-driven mental health and wellness company. Sayana will expand Headspace Health’s ability to provide personalized self-care content to its growing global member base.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220112005244/en/
Headspace Health announces acquisition of AI-driven mental health and wellness company, Sayana.
Founded in 2018 and backed by Y Combinator in 2020, Sayana has supported users around the world to improve their mental wellness by helping its members become more mindful of the connections between their feelings and events. The Sayana Self-Care app leverages chat-based sessions with an AI persona named Sayana, who encourages users to track their mood along with what influences it. Sayana personalizes users’ experiences based on their check-ins and mood trends, surfacing high-quality content and self-care exercises rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), as well as breathing exercises. In addition, the Sayana Sleep app helps members to enjoy deep and restful sleep sessions sequenced based on their mood and sleep patterns.
“Amidst a rapidly growing landscape of mental health and wellness apps, Sayana has developed a uniquely engaging member experience backed by world-class AI and machine learning algorithms,” said Russell Glass, CEO, Headspace Health. “Sayana's technology, and most importantly, Sayana’s team, will help us meaningfully advance our product and content strategy as we continue to build the world’s most comprehensive mental health and wellbeing platform.”
On the heels of its recent merger between Headspace and Ginger, Headspace Health is creating an integrated experience to tackle the full spectrum of mental health needs - from prevention to clinical care - all from one platform backed by AI and data science. Today, Ginger leverages AI to support its team of behavioral health coaches, therapists and psychiatrists to ensure quality interactions with members, comprehensive tracking of services, and close collaboration among care providers. Headspace harnesses the power of AI to surface and recommend content in order to foster healthy habit formation. With the addition of Sayana, Headspace Health will advance its capability to personalize member experiences - to better understand, support and improve their feelings and mood.
Sayana founder and CEO Sergey Fayfer will join Headspace Health and take on a product leadership role, along with an experienced team of engineers and designers who will further advance the company’s unique and engaging member experiences.
“Since our inception, we’ve been on a mission at Sayana to put self-care in everyone’s pocket,” said Sergey Fayfer, Founder and CEO of Sayana. “We’re thrilled to bring together our technology, engineering and design expertise to help advance Headspace Health’s efforts to democratize high-quality, affordable mental healthcare around the world.”
The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
About Headspace Health
Headspace Health is the world’s leading provider of mental health and wellbeing solutions. Through our flagship Headspace brand, we’ve touched the lives of over 100 million people in 190 countries through mindfulness tools for managing stress, sleep, and focus. Our enterprise brands, Headspace for Work and Ginger, are distributed through over 3,500 enterprises, including Starbucks, Adobe, Delta Air Lines, and ViacomCBS; and through health plans such as Cigna. Our members and enterprise partners’ employees have access to mindfulness and meditation tools, CBT, coaching, therapy, and psychiatry, ultimately helping them to be healthier and more productive. To learn more about Headspace Health and our family of brands, visit www.headspacehealth.com.
To view this piece of content from cts.businesswire.com, please give your consent at the top of this page.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220112005244/en/
Contact information
Victoria Barnes
Sr. Director, Global Communications & Corporate Marketing, Headspace Health
781 249 3738
press@headspacehealth.com
About Business Wire
For more than 50 years, Business Wire has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure.
Subscribe to releases from Business Wire
Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Latest releases from Business Wire
ATLAS Infrastructure Cornerstones United Utilities £800m Equity Placement5.5.2026 14:12:00 EEST | Press release
ATLAS Infrastructure (“ATLAS”) is a specialist Global Listed Infrastructure investor managing capital on behalf of its funds and long-term institutional clients. ATLAS has been an investor in UU since 2019 and, following the recent equity placement, ATLAS’s actively managed accounts hold a ~6.6% voting and economic interest in United Utilities plc (“UU”). ATLAS recognises the positive new direction established for the UK water sector and welcomes the opportunity to support UU management’s investment plan which will deliver the critical infrastructure required to support housing and industrial growth across North West England, as well as playing a crucial role in supporting nationally important initiatives related to AI data centres and sustainable energy. ATLAS strongly supports UU’s decision to raise new equity in order to accelerate its investment program through providing significant balance sheet capacity and financial flexibility through to the end of AMP8 in 2030. ATLAS values th
Jeito Capital Bolsters Its Leadership Team With the Appointment of Elaine Caughey, MBA, as Partner, Business Development and Investor Relations, and Sarah Shackelton, MPA, as Partner, Talent5.5.2026 13:37:00 EEST | Press release
Jeito Capital (“Jeito”), a leading global independent private equity fund dedicated to Biopharma, today announces the appointments of Elaine Caughey, MBA, as Partner, Business Development and Investor Relations, and Sarah Shackelton, MPA, as Partner, Talent. With extensive senior leadership experience across top-tier life-sciences investment funds, pharma and Biopharma companies, Elaine Caughey and Sarah Shackelton bring deep expertise in life sciences operations, investment, recruitment, and team building. Their appointments are synergistic and aligned with Jeito’s strategy, combining complementary skills across the full drug value chain to support portfolio company development and advance breakthrough therapies for patients. Building on a series of recent high-profile hires — including Samit Hirawat, M.D. as Strategic Medical Advisor, bringing senior leadership and clinical development experience at Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb; Karin Van Baelen as Chief Regulatory Advisor, with
Datang Mobile, KPN, NEC and Wilus are Latest Licensors to Join Sisvel POS Patent Pool as Incentive Deadline Nears5.5.2026 11:02:00 EEST | Press release
Datang Mobile, KPN, NEC and Wilus have become the latest licensors in the Sisvel point of sale (POS) patent pool. They join seven other patent owners in making their 2G-5G cellular portfolios available through the programme: BlackBerry, Huawei, JVCKENWOOD, LG Electronics, Nokia, Sisvel and SK Telecom. The period for Sisvel POS licensors to benefit from early participation incentives is set to close on 15 May. Cellular patent owners interested in becoming involved should contact Sisvel as soon as possible. The pool, which is the first in the market to address the POS vertical, was announced at the beginning of April, with Huawei, LG Electronics and Nokia as founding licensors. “We have received a great response from the market so far, and I am pleased to welcome Datang, KPN, NEC and Wilus as the latest licensors,” says POS programme manager Sven Törringer. “We have put together a formidable group of cellular technology innovators, and there are many more companies in the pipeline. I am
Bregal Milestone Announces Majority Growth Investment in meteoviva, an AI-Powered Building Energy Management Solution5.5.2026 11:01:00 EEST | Press release
Bregal Milestone, a leading European software growth private equity firm, today announced a majority growth investment in meteoviva GmbH (“meteoviva” or the “Company”), a pioneer in AI-powered predictive building energy management. meteoviva's intelligent solutions combine a proprietary physics-based thermodynamic model with AI to deliver energy cost reductions of up to 45 percent across large-scale commercial real estate portfolios, without structural retrofits. meteoviva is widely recognised as a market leader in autonomous building energy management, with over 500 buildings across 19 countries, accounting for 11.5 million square metres of real estate under active control. Its customer base includes some of Europe's most demanding buildings, among them Germany's largest office building, The Squaire at Frankfurt Airport, the BMW Group IT Centre in Munich, and the DC Tower in Vienna. meteoviva is the first provider in its category certified by the German Sustainable Building Council (D
OCTO and Sedgwick Announce Strategic Telematics Partnership5.5.2026 11:00:00 EEST | Press release
OCTO, a global leader in telematics and data analytics, today announced a strategic partnership with Sedgwick, the world’s leading provider of claims and risk management solutions. Together, the two companies will reshape the future of insurance and mobility by combining advanced telematics with claims management services. The collaboration aims to create a new model where telematics and efficiency come together to transform the customer experience. By integrating OCTO’s cutting-edge telematics insights with Sedgwick’s global expertise in claims handling, the partnership will unlock a series of tangible benefits: enhanced speed and accuracy in crash and claims intake, quicker and more consistent liability assessments, fraud validation and reduction, optimized alerts to improve driver safety, and significant reductions in the overall cost and lifecycle of claims. The joint solution is telematics-agnostic, able to ingest data from connected cars, fleet management systems, or OCTO’s own o
In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.
Visit our pressroom