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Glo Wants You to Keep Your Yoga Teacher. Lose the Commute.
Glo began with three filmed yoga classes and a familiar Los Angeles problem: traffic. Eighteen years later, its paid library faces a harder test - giving people a reason to return when so much wellness content is free.
The Meditation App That Told You to Get Up and Move
Most meditation apps ask you to sit still and shut up. Open wants you breathing, moving, and - strangest of all for the category - doing it with other people.
Muse by Interaxon Inc.
Muse, made by Toronto-based Interaxon Inc., is a brain-sensing headband that turns clinical-grade EEG into a consumer wearable. First shipped in 2014, Muse reads your brainwaves and, through a companion app, gives real-time audio feedback to guide meditation, track sleep, and train focus. The company has since layered on fNIRS and SpO2 sensing (Muse S Athena, 2025) and an AI brain-health platform trained on more than a billion minutes of EEG data, positioning Muse at the intersection of consumer wellness and clinical neuroscience.
MixerBox
MixerBox is a Palo Alto-based super-apps company building a constellation of daily-essential mobile apps - from OnePlayer and FreecableTV to AlarmTunes, NewsDash and a suite of AI tools that became the largest single developer on the ChatGPT Plugin Store. Founded in 2012 by Taiwanese-Australian Harvard alum John Lai and backed by Y Combinator, the company has crossed 300 million downloads worldwide.
Diva Yoga
Diva Yoga is a premium, women-first yoga and wellness brand based in Mumbai, India, and the yoga arm of the SARVA wellness group. Co-founded by entrepreneur-yogi Sarvesh Shashi and Bollywood actor Malaika Arora, it pairs studio and digital practice across 25+ forms of yoga with functional training, Zumba, and nutrition counseling. The brand mixes physical studios with corporate and community wellness programs, and has drawn a celebrity-heavy investor roster that includes Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, Shahid and Mira Kapoor, and Aishwaryaa R. Dhanush.
Calm
Calm is a San Francisco-based mental wellness company best known for its meditation and sleep app, which pairs guided meditations, celebrity-narrated Sleep Stories, music and soundscapes into a subscription product. Founded in 2012 by Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew, Calm has grown from a simple 'do nothing for two minutes' web experiment into one of the most downloaded wellness apps in the world, expanding into employer benefits (Calm Business) and a clinical mental-health platform (Calm Health) reaching tens of millions of people.
The Mind Company
The Mind Company is the San Francisco-based mental fitness studio formerly known as Elevate Labs. It makes science-backed mobile apps - Elevate for cognitive training, Balance for personalized meditation, and the new Spark puzzle app - that have together crossed 80 million downloads and collected Apple's and Google's App of the Year honors.