Shine is an award-winning self-care app and community for people with anxiety & depression
Shine is the world?s largest self-care club, with 3 million members across 189 countries.
Our approach to wellness: It isn?t pricey, preachy, or privileged. We pride ourselves on being accessible, actionable, and non-shamey?we believe personal growth starts with accepting who you are today.
Our members take care of their mental and emotional health daily with the freemium Shine app. It delivers a new motivational message and meditation each day, plus features a library of 500+ meditations to help them cope with specific feelings and situations.
Our premium members also get real-time advice from other Shine members in our private Shine Squad digital community?it?s peer-to-peer support that reminds them they don?t have to go it alone.
In just two years since launching, our app already has over 10,000 5-star reviews (1 in 3 call Shine ?life-changing?), we were named one of the best self-care apps of 2018 by Apple, and we?ve seen that increased use of Shine is correlated with decrease
Shine is the world?s largest self-care club, with 3 million members across 189 countries.
Our approach to wellness: It isn?t pricey, preachy, or privileged. We pride ourselves on being accessible, actionable, and non-shamey?we believe personal growth starts with accepting who you are today.
Our members take care of their mental and emotional health daily with the freemium Shine app. It delivers a new motivational message and meditation each day, plus features a library of 500+ meditations to help them cope with specific feelings and situations.
Our premium members also get real-time advice from other Shine members in our private Shine Squad digital community?it?s peer-to-peer support that reminds them they don?t have to go it alone.
In just two years since launching, our app already has over 10,000 5-star reviews (1 in 3 call Shine ?life-changing?), we were named one of the best self-care apps of 2018 by Apple, and we?ve seen that increased use of Shine is correlated with decrease
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $7.5M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 8
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 03.04.2018 | Series A | $5M | - |
| 19.04.2017 | - | $2.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.05.2020 | The New Normal: Managing Anxiety During A Pandemic | Each morning when we wake up, we can usually predict how our day will go. We have an outlined schedule that we follow, and we adapt to any hitches or snags throughout the day because they are often minor. We establish a routine that makes u... |
| 29.06.2018 | These 50 founders and VCs suggest 2018 may be a tipping point for women: Part 1 | For the last several years, we’ve compiled profiles of women founders and investors at the end of each year because they’ve either raised substantial amounts of money or otherwise achieved notable milestones. This year, we don’t want to wai... |
| 04.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday April 4 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER Jeff Fagnan believes that if you’re a startup founder, you have a social responsibility to become an angel investor — whether you want to or not. “We feel like if someone helped you, you need to pay it forward as well,... |
| 03.04.2018 | Self-care startup Shine raises $5 million Series A | Shine, an early arrival in a market now teeming with self-care apps and services, has closed on $5 million in Series A funding, the company announced today, alongside the milestone of hitting 2 million active users. The round was led by exi... |
| 03.04.2018 | Shine seeks to help a generation feeling alone | NY-based startup raises $5 million to expand on its self-help app Millennials. The generation empowered to stand up against the status quo, authority and convention. This selfie generation is also the one to seek affirmation online, purpose... |
| 03.04.2018 | Shine announces 2 million users, raises $5 million to grow its motivational mindfulness app | In the age of Facebook and mobile messaging apps, you could be excused for thinking that SMS was on the fast track to extinction. But one New York startup has built a service that issues bite-sized advice each day via text message, designed... |
| 03.04.2018 | Shine announces 2 million users, raises $5 million to grow its motivational mindfulness app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. In the age of Facebook and mobile messaging apps, you could be excused for thinking that SMS was on the fast track to extinction. But o... |
| 10.11.2017 | VC Jesse Middleton on why he cares about the state of Brooklyn tech | In the world of big data and artificial intelligence, venture capital investor Jesse Middleton values something a little different. “One thing we look for is the ability to make fast decisions intelligently with incomplete data,” Middleton ... |
| 27.09.2017 | Beauty Tech Wins at the L’Oréal Digital NEXT Generation Awards | What an exciting time to be a beauty entrepreneur. According to a report by Forbes, the industry is expected to be a $445 billion market and expected to reach $675 billion by 2020. And according to CB Insights, 62 privately held beauty comp... |
| 17.08.2017 | Applications for betaworks’ newest accelerator, Visioncamp, open September 6 | On the heels of formally announcing betaworks ventures, the startup shop is today introducing its third ‘camp’. betaworks Visioncamp is the latest accelerator-style program out of betaworks, and will focus on ‘camera-first’ applications and... |
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