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LifeGuides is a radically different human-centered service to help employee families thrive. It is a transformative solution for conscious and caring leaders.
We offer the broadest range of Life Guidance Services™ to support employee families with their personal growth objectives, or help them navigate difficult Life Challenges.
LifeGuides easily empowers you to pick a Guide, who has successfully navigated the same personal growth, or Life Challenge event, that you face now. Similar to a Match.com, members can view Guide videos and bios, and then select a suitable Guide in a specific topic area. During one-to-one sessions, with a trained and certified Guide, the Client receives emotional support, wise life experience and an authentic relationship.
Members choose from a broad range of 400+ topics, organized in eight channels: 1. Emotional Wellbeing & Stress, 2. Life During COVID, 3. Disease, Injury or Illness, 4. Proactive Wellness, 5. Home Life & Family, 6. Work Life & Prosperity, 7. Community & Identity, and 8. Purpose & Fulfillment.
Our Intelligence Assistance® technology further optimizes the Guide-Client matching, augments the Guides range of knowledge, and helps accelerate empathy and trust. LifeGuides is modernizing human support and re-connecting people, which is foundational to the human spirit and wellbeing.
Given the breadth of our services, LifeGuides is radically affordable at $4.00 per employee family per month. This covers unlimited services for all adult members of a household.
LifeGuides is a win-win-win. Employee families enjoy enhanced vitality, reduced stress, and greater happiness. Leaders show true empathy. Enterprises enhance their “Culture of Caring”, and enjoy additional ROIs, including reduced presenteeism and improved productivity.
Our mission is to grow a community for sharing life experience and empathy, which impacts 1B lives in 15 years. As a leader in "Business as a Force for Good," please join us!
We offer the broadest range of Life Guidance Services™ to support employee families with their personal growth objectives, or help them navigate difficult Life Challenges.
LifeGuides easily empowers you to pick a Guide, who has successfully navigated the same personal growth, or Life Challenge event, that you face now. Similar to a Match.com, members can view Guide videos and bios, and then select a suitable Guide in a specific topic area. During one-to-one sessions, with a trained and certified Guide, the Client receives emotional support, wise life experience and an authentic relationship.
Members choose from a broad range of 400+ topics, organized in eight channels: 1. Emotional Wellbeing & Stress, 2. Life During COVID, 3. Disease, Injury or Illness, 4. Proactive Wellness, 5. Home Life & Family, 6. Work Life & Prosperity, 7. Community & Identity, and 8. Purpose & Fulfillment.
Our Intelligence Assistance® technology further optimizes the Guide-Client matching, augments the Guides range of knowledge, and helps accelerate empathy and trust. LifeGuides is modernizing human support and re-connecting people, which is foundational to the human spirit and wellbeing.
Given the breadth of our services, LifeGuides is radically affordable at $4.00 per employee family per month. This covers unlimited services for all adult members of a household.
LifeGuides is a win-win-win. Employee families enjoy enhanced vitality, reduced stress, and greater happiness. Leaders show true empathy. Enterprises enhance their “Culture of Caring”, and enjoy additional ROIs, including reduced presenteeism and improved productivity.
Our mission is to grow a community for sharing life experience and empathy, which impacts 1B lives in 15 years. As a leader in "Business as a Force for Good," please join us!
Overview
Location
United States
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$2M
Founded date
2016
Funding Rounds 2
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| Oct 2, 2019 | Funding round | $1M |
Mentions in press and media 6
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| Jan 26, 2026 | LifeGuides Lands $1M Strategic Investment | TEMPE, AZ, LifeGuides, a provider of Non-Clinical Mental Health (NCMH) and professional mentoring services, announced a $1 million strategic investment. >> Click here for more funding data on LifeGuides >> To export LifeGuides ... |
| Jan 26, 2026 | LifeGuides Receives Investment from the Aging Innovation Fund -- Specializing in Breakthrough Healthcare Innovation | Mark Donohue, Founder & CEO, and Derek Lundsten, President & Chief Culture Officer, LifeGuides TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- LifeGuides®, the leading provider of Non-Clinical Mental Health (NCMH) and professional... |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Why Employee Recognition Doesn’t Work: My Confession as a “So-Called” Expert | I’ve waited long enough with a pit in my stomach to write this post. But it’s time for me to come clean. I’m ready to share my dark secrets about employee recognition. |
| Oct 2, 2019 | LifeGuides Raises $1M in Follow-on Funding | LifeGuides, a Tempe, AZ-based provider of a platform for enterprises to increase retention and recruiting, while reducing presenteeism loss, and enhancing a Culture of Caring, raised $1M in follow-on funding. North Shore Venture Partners ma... |
| LifeGuides, PBC | “Supporting Employees through Life Challenges. LifeGuides improves Retention, Recruiting, Worker Focus, and Your Culture of Caring.” |
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FAQ about LifeGuides
When was LifeGuides founded?
LifeGuides was founded in 2016.
How much funding has LifeGuides raised?
LifeGuides has raised $2M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has LifeGuides raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of LifeGuides, among them a funding round of $1M on Oct 2, 2019.
What has the press written about LifeGuides?
Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning LifeGuides, among them “LifeGuides Lands $1M Strategic Investment” (Jan 26, 2026) and “LifeGuides Receives Investment from the Aging Innovation Fund -- Specializing in Breakthrough Healthcare Innovation” (Jan 26, 2026).
Is LifeGuides still active?
Yes, LifeGuides is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 18, 2026.