Start Pill
This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Wellness companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Wellness industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top California Wellness Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Headspace
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Headspace is a digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training.
Mindbody
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Mindbody is a wellness experience platform that allows users to find and engage with fitness, beauty, and integrative health services.
Lark
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Lark is a digital health startup that provides virtual care through AI coaching, smart devices, and tele-monitoring.
Hims & Hers
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Hims is a wellness brand that helps men and women get access to products for skin care, hair loss, and sexual health.
Calm
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Calm offers a global health and wellness brand application designed to help its users meditate and relax.
Ginger
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Ginger is an on-demand mental health company providing around-the-clock access to emotional support via coaching, therapy, and psychiatry.
Origin
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Origin is a platform that provides insurance and financial services for employees.
Stride Health
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Stride Health is a provider of an insurance recommendation platform designed to offer health insurance services.
Omada Health
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A digital behavioral medicine company dedicated to inspiring and empowering people everywhere to live free of chronic illiness.
Cerebral
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Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that offers online care and medication management for anxiety and depression.
Modern Health
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Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Carrot Fertility
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Carrot Fertility helps employers offer their workers fertility benefits that are flexible, transparent, and cost-conscious.
Opya
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Opya transforms autism care by successfully connecting treatment with technology.
FitOn
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FitOn is a free fitness app with more than 10M+ members who have completed over 1+ Billion workout minutes on the platform.
Tempo
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Tempo is a home fitness platform, combining equipment, training guidance, and social motivation with 3D sensors and artificial intelligence.
Pray.com
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Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
Molekule
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Molekule is a San Francisco-based science and clean air company that has developed a fundamentally new approach to cleaning air.
Needed
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Needed is a pregnancy nutrition and education company that supports optimal nourishment before, during, and after pregnancy.
Hello Heart
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Hello Heart is the leader in cardiovascular digital therapeutics. We help people understand and improve their heart health using technology.
Nurx
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Nurx is a healthcare company offering at-home STI testing allowing treatment for genital and oral herpes, and emergency contraception.
Zwift
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Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
Booksy
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Booksy is an online platform for finding and booking beauty and wellness appointments.
Carrot
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Carrot features a six-stage program to engage and helps people to quit smoking.
Hyperice
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HyperIce provides recovery and movement enhancement technology for athletes.
Goop
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Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
LOOM
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LOOM is a platform helping women optimize their sexual and reproductive wellbeing.
Open
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Shared mindful experiences to help friends be present together, on and offline.
Soylent
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Soylent is a pioneer in food tech, producing delicious, functional foods, w/ complete nutrition that are good for the body & the planet
FabFitFun
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FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Big Health
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Big Health operates a digital healthcare portal used to offer behavioral programs for mental health issues.
Ritual
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Ritual is a health technology company that is re-inventing consumer products.
Mindstrong
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Mindstrong is committed to reshaping mental health through improvements in data measurement, data science, and virtual care models.
Beachbody
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Beachbody has developed and offering an in-home fitness and weight loss solutions.
Payactiv
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Payactiv helps put financial wellness within reach.
Castlight Health
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Castlight Health navigation platform makes it as easy as humanly possible to navigate healthcare & live happier more productive lives.
MyFitnessPal
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MyFitnessPal is a health smartphone app that tracks nutrition, exercise, and diet.
AppliedVR
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AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
DayTwo
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DayTwo is the leader in precision nutrition for metabolic disease using gut microbiome science, AI and virtual clinical support.
Herbalife Nutrition Ltd.
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Herbalife is a global nutrition company that has helped people pursue healthy.
Embodied
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Embodied is an AI company that develops state-of-the-art companion robots.
INBRACE
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Swift Health Systems is a stealth stage start-up medical device company, developing INBRACE.
Pear Sports
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Pear Sports is a health and fitness software platform that delivers digital coaching solutions.
More Labs
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More Labs is a dietary supplement that helps the body’s natural detoxification process after a crazy night out.
Twic
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Twic is a modern-day benefits platform that gives employees the freedom to choose health and wellness options that are right for them.
Vessel
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Vessel is an at-home wellness tracker that helps in accessing, understanding, and optimizing health and wellness from the comfort of home.
100Plus
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100Plus is the fastest-growing Remote Patient Monitoring Platform for doctors to manage their chronic patients to avoid episodic care.
Whisper
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Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
January
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January is a mobile app that combines AI with science to provide personalized health insights and recommendations.
Two Chairs
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Two Chairs provides high-quality, in-person psychotherapy at thoughtfully-designed clinics.
Thistle
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Thistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers.
Soothe
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Soothe is an on-demand wellness platform that brings wellness and personal care services directly to you – at home or at work.
Octave
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Octave offers a modern practice that brings a primary care approach to serve the mental health needs of young urban professionals.
ROAM
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ROAM is a San Francisco-based robotics company that is developing mobility through is powered orthotics, known as exoskeletons.
LARQ
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LARQ helps people access pristine drinking water easily and sustainably.
Foodsmart
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Foodsmart is a Telenutrition and Foodcare network that makes healthy eating personalized, convenient, and affordable.
Spire Health
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Spire Health is the market leader in continuous respiration sensing and high-adherence, patient-friendly ambulatory monitoring.
Awair
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Awair is a global network company that ensures people can breathe safely.
Fable
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Fable delivers a social experience with stories in the service of mental wellness.
airVet
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AirVet is a telehealth platform designed to offer continuity of care between pet parents and veterinarians.
Four Sigmatic
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Four Sigmatic is make drinking mushrooms easy with their mushroom coffees, elixirs, and superfood blends.
Cora
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Cora is an organic tampons and elegant accessories company that produces and markets applicator tampons, sanitary pads, and necklaces.
Bellabeat
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Bellabeat creates beautiful, innovative products that help women easily track their overall health and wellness.
Lumo Bodytech
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Lumo Bodytech’s technology platform leverages smart sensors and software to optimize performance and addresses human biomechanics.
Canvas Medical
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Canvas Medical is a healthcare platform for primary care practices.
Lumos Labs
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Lumosity is a neuroscience research company that provides online brain training programs.
tEQuitable
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tEQuitable is an independent, confidential platform to address issues of bias, discrimination and harassment in the workplace.
Equip Health
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Equip Health provides a virtual eating disorder treatment program designed to assist families recover from eating disorders at home.
Gainful
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Gainful is a personalized sports nutrition company that offers subscriptions to its Hydration line of electrolyte drink mixes.
Dutch
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Dutch is a pet telehealth service that specializes in treating anxiety and allergies.
Profusa
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PROFUSA is a medical devices company creating tissue-integrated sensors for chronic disease management and healthy living.
Simple Habit
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Simple Habit is a meditation app designed to drive a healthy lifestyle.
Cue
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Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep.
Stork Club
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Stork Club is a maternity care platform that extends insurance coverage and provides all possible options to people who want to have a baby.
Because Market
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Because is personal care direct-to-consumer company focused on meeting the needs of older adults.
ConsejoSano
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Multicultural engagement and navigation solutions
OLLY
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Olly is a manufacturer of wellness and nutrition products that inspires lifelong healthy habits.
BrightPlan
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BrightPlan provides Total Financial Wellness for all employees by creating a plan to achieve their financial goals.
Aura Health
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Aura is a digital wellness ecosystem that provides personalized content & community from therapists & coaches around the world
Opencare
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Opencare is transforming the dental industry by creating the first premium dental care network.
iHealth Labs
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iHealth offers cloud-based, personal healthcare products for individuals of all ages to take a more active role in managing their health.
Path
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Path makes it easy to find a world class mental health provider that’s covered by your insurance.
HUM Nutrition
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HUM is the leading beauty nutrition brand with the mission is to help you look and feel your absolute best all the time.
Glaukos
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Glaukos is a glaucoma treatment company developing micro-bypass therapies to moderate the intraocular pressures that help preserve vision.
Rael
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Rael makes natural and organic period products that don’t sacrifice comfort or performance.
9am.health
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9am.health gives consumers access to healthcare that is easy and affordable.
MixR
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At MixR, we are on a mission to scale trust and belonging in the workplace through our C.a.a.S platform (community as a service).
The Mighty
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The Mighty is a digital health community created to empower and connect people facing health challenges and disabilities.
Wildflower Health
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Wildflower Health focuses on its client’s needs and integrates services into existing sustainability programs.
Alastin Skincare
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Alastin Skincare develops innovative and clinically-validated skincare products.
Bloomlife
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Women’s health company combining clinically validated wearables with data analytics to improve birth outcomes.
Liquid I.V
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Liquid I.V. is a health-science nutrition and wellness company.
Circle Medical
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Circle Medical is the doctor’s office that comes to you, paid for by your insurance.
Jumpcode Genomics
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JUMPCODE’s CRISPR-mediated rRNA depletion kits remove nucleic acids from sequencing workflows to improve sensitivity and performance.
TaskHuman
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TaskHuman is a digital wellness network that offers 1-on-1 interactive sessions with LIVE wellness coaches via video call.
Kit.com
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Kit.com is a home medical exams, delivered. Kit makes health testing simpler, easier and more reliable for your patients.
Hello Cake
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Hello Cake offers tailor-made products for the bedroom, inspired by real couples, and designed for specific types of play.
Globe
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Globe provides a real estate platform that allows people to live more comfortably.
Sambazon
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Sambazon offers fresh juices, smoothies, and frozen products made from blends of wild-harvested fruits and botanicals.
Health2047
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Health2047 is a Silicon Valley innovation enterprise, developing and commercializing transformational healthcare solutions.
Sparta Science
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Sparta reduces injuries and optimizes performance with validated scientific assessments and evidence-based prescriptions.
