# Thrive Global

> Thrive Global is a behavior change technology company founded by Arianna Huffington in 2016 to help end the stress and burnout epidemic. It embeds science-backed 'Microsteps' - tiny, sustainable habit changes - directly into the daily workflow of employees at more than 200 organizations across 160+ countries, pairing behavioral science with AI to improve health outcomes and productivity for frontline workers and executives alike.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Arianna Huffington (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** ~600 employees
- **Products:** Thrive platform / Microsteps, Thrive Reset, Thriving Mind, The Thrive Journal / Community, Thrive AI Health
- **Notable:** Named to Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter' list in 2021, Microsteps adopted by employees at 200+ organizations across 160+ countries, Raised $80M Series C at a $700M+ valuation in 2021

## Products & services

- **Thrive platform / Microsteps** — A behavior change technology platform that delivers science-backed Microsteps - small, sustainable habit changes - along with real-time stress-reducing tools and storytelling, scaled to large employee populations via apps and workflow integrations.
- **Thrive Reset** — A tool that lets users interrupt cumulative stress in 60 seconds with breathing exercises, personal photos, and calming content, embeddable in workflow tools like Slack and Webex.
- **Thriving Mind** — A mental health and resilience program developed in partnership with Stanford Medicine and Stanford's Center on Stress and Health, rolled out to enterprise customers including Accenture.
- **The Thrive Journal / Community** — A media and storytelling platform for the conversation about changing the way we work and live, featuring contributor articles and user success stories.
- **Thrive AI Health** — A separate company backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global building a hyper-personalized AI health coach trained on Thrive's behavior change methodology, led by CEO DeCarlos Love.

## Achievements

- Named to Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter' list in 2021
- Microsteps adopted by employees at 200+ organizations across 160+ countries
- Raised $80M Series C at a $700M+ valuation in 2021
- Acquired neuroscience-AI company Boundless Mind (formerly Dopamine Labs) in 2019
- Co-founded Thrive AI Health with the OpenAI Startup Fund in 2024
- Built the Thriving Mind resilience program with Stanford Medicine

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Thrive Global and the OpenAI Startup Fund launched Thrive AI Health to build a hyper-personalized AI health coach, with DeCarlos Love as CEO and the Alice L. Walton Foundation as a strategic investor.
- **2024-11** — Appointed Kristina O'Connell as Chief Marketing Officer; Thrive AI Health showed an early minimum-viable demo of its assistant.
- **2025-01** — Collaborated with Eli Lilly and Company to offer healthy-behavior tools and resources aimed at improving health outcomes.

## Links

- Website: https://thriveglobal.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thrive-global
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thrive
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThriveGlobal
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thrive.global

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Last updated: 2026-07-17