Shine is the #1 BIPOC-owned self-care app, redefining what it means to care for our mental and emotional health daily. Proud to be named one of Apple's Best Apps of 2020. 🏆
Shine’s co-founders, Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi, created Shine after meeting at work and supporting each other through their own stress and anxiety.
Their belief: Getting support around your mental and emotional health should be easy and accessible for all.
Their approach: We’re stronger when we take care of ourselves together.
With a 4 million-strong community across 189 countries and an award-winning iOS and Android app, Shine is now the largest and most diverse group of people practicing daily self-care together.
Shine’s co-founders, Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi, created Shine after meeting at work and supporting each other through their own stress and anxiety.
Their belief: Getting support around your mental and emotional health should be easy and accessible for all.
Their approach: We’re stronger when we take care of ourselves together.
With a 4 million-strong community across 189 countries and an award-winning iOS and Android app, Shine is now the largest and most diverse group of people practicing daily self-care together.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2016
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| 28.10.2021 | Tech Squar... | techsquare... |
| 28.10.2021 | Engage VC | engage.vc |
Mentions in press and media 5
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.10.2022 | Why Q3’s low digital health fundraising total shouldn’t raise any red flags | Investment in digital health companies is definitely slowing down, but experts contend that this trend shouldn’t be a cause for major concern. Digital health’s Q3 saw the lowest quarterly funding total in the past 11 quarters, according to ... |
| 08.09.2022 | Headspace Health acquires Shine to further diversity and inclusion in mental health | Shine has 6 million members who will be given complimentary access to the Headspace app The inequities in the US healthcare system are nothing new; it's been long understood that zip code has more to do with health outcomes than genetics. A... |
| 08.09.2022 | Headspace Health advances equity of mental health through Shine acquisition | Amid a greater acknowledgment that minority and marginalized populations have specific mental health challenges that require cultural understanding, digital mental health provider Headspace Health announced Thursday that it has acquired an ... |
| 20.06.2022 | Do mental health apps really help? We asked the experts | Nearly one in four U.S. adults have a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year, and many more experience transient stress symptoms. Therapy and other professional mental health interventions can be crucial to finding appropriate treatmen... |
| 05.11.2020 | Mixtape podcast: Wellness in the time of the struggle | We’re back with another episode of Mixtape. This week Marah Lidey, co-founder and co-CEO of Shine, joins us to discuss mental health, venture capital, portfolio diversity and connecting with other founders trying to make it all work. It’s e... |