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Calm

Calm

Calm is a health technology start-up based in San Francisco. It was founded in 2012 by Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith and produces a mobile application for sleep, relaxation, and meditation.

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calm.com
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Company
Company
Organization
Organization

Company attributes

Industry
Wellness (alternative medicine)
Wellness (alternative medicine)
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Meditation
Meditation
Mental health
Mental health
Location
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
United States
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B2X
B2B
B2B
B2C
B2C
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CEO
David Ko
David Ko
Alex Tew
Alex Tew
Founder
Alex Tew
Alex Tew
Michael Acton Smith
Michael Acton Smith
AngelList URL
angel.co/calm
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles.../56204-65
Legal Name
Calm.com, Inc.
Legal classification
Privately held company
Privately held company
Date Incorporated
2012
Number of Employees (Ranges)
201 – 5000
Email Address
support@calm.com
Number of Employees
539
Investors
Scribble Ventures
Scribble Ventures
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Jude Gomila
Jude Gomila
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CAA
Insight Partners
Insight Partners
Steve Pankhurst
Steve Pankhurst
Andy McLoughlin
Andy McLoughlin
Sound Ventures
Sound Ventures
Joe Greenstein (entrepreneur)
Joe Greenstein (entrepreneur)
...
Founded Date
2012
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Total Funding Amount (USD)
292,415,000
Latest Funding Round Date
December 9, 2020
Competitors
Headspace Health
Headspace Health
Gismart
Gismart
CTO
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Will Larson
0
Latest Funding Type
Series C
Series C
Latest Postmoney Valuation
1,000,000,001
Wellfound ID
calm
Country
United States
United States

Other attributes

Blog
calm.com/blog/
Company Operating Status
Active
Contact Page URL
support.calm.com/hc/en-...sts/new
Funding Round Investor
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Overview

Calm is a San Francisco-based mobile application company that provides wellness services that are aimed to help users manage anxiety, lower stress, and sleep better. The app can be accessed via mobile application or website and includes meditations, bedtime stories, music, sounds that play the noise of scenic places, videos for wellness and stretches, and master classes.

Product

Users can download the app for free and have access to a limited amount of the app's services. If they want to upgrade to a premium account, they can have a free one-week trial of the app, and then it can be bought with various plans depending on the duration of the desired plan.

Meditation

Calm has various meditation topics that users can choose from. Topics include but are not limited to sleep, anxiety, beginner meditation, self-care, inner peace, and relationships. There are also children's meditations for children ages three to seventeen. Premium users have access to a special mediation that is updated daily.

Sleep Stories

Calm provides Sleep Stories, which are tales read by well-known voices, such as Matthew McConaughey, Stephen Fry, Leona Lewis, and Bob Ross. The stories are intended to help people fall into a deep sleep and cover stories such as Beauty and the Beast and The Lost Grimm Fairy Tale.

Music and Scenes

The music feature on the app is focused around music that can calm or focus the user. Songs can be selected from categories such as sleep, soundscapes, lullabies, and focus. Songs can include nature sounds and white noise. The music varies in length and can last anywhere between three minutes to an hour or more.

A scene feature plays sounds from different scenes from around the world, including "fireplace," where users can hear the low crackle of a fire; "tropical beach," where users can hear waves crashing on the shore; and "summer meadow," where users can hear insects chirping and birds in the distance.

Calm Body

Calm Body includes guided video lessons of gentle stretching and mindful movement that claims to release tension and recharge the mind. Videos cover stretches that can be done in the morning, at night, and before or after a workout. An introduction video explains this feature of the app.

Master Class

The Master Class feature is intended to teach the user about specific wellness topics through several videos on the app. The leaders of the master classes are experts in their fields, ranging from clinical psychologists to NBA stars to award-winning authors.

Partnerships

Calm is partnered with XpresSpa at major US airports, such as John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, Los Angeles International Airport, and Philadelphia International Airport. Users can go to XpresSpa and receive a free luggage tag and a ten-minute relaxation lounger massage by showing their app to one of the store's employees. Calm products are available for purchase at XpresSpa as well.

Additional products

Outside of digital offerings, the company sells a sleep mist designed to spray on a pillow to accompany the bedtime story. A book called Calm was published by cofounder Michael Acton Smith in 2016, and he told CNBC that other physical products, such as clothing and potentially a Calm Hotel, were part of the company’s vision.

Initiatives

Calm offers a discount of 50% to companies that would like to provide the app to their teams. A company, organization, or group of five or more individuals can purchase the app by selecting the number of people who will be using it. Calm will send a landing page to the company, which can then send it to the team and use the subscription for one year.

The Calm Health initiative is intended to be used by healthcare practitioners and their clients. It consists of a free subscription for one year for the practitioner and a one-month premium trial for their clients. It is available to doctors, dentists, psychologists, and other professionals in the health field. Healthcare practitioners can fill out a form online to receive more information and sign up for the service.

The Calm Schools Initiative allows any teacher anywhere in the world to access the app for free and share it in their classrooms. The stated goal of this initiative is to onboard 100,000 schools in 2019, intending to reach one million students. Teachers can have access to Calm's expanding children's mediation library and other wellness tools. In order to become a part of this initiative, teachers can visit the company's website and fill out a form. Upon completion and submission of the form, the teacher will be contacted by Calm for further instructions regarding the onboarding process.

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Further Resources

Title
Author
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Type
Date

Are AI fairytales the future?

BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43808772

Web

April 18, 2018

Can't Sleep? Let Bob Ross Help You Find Some Happy Little Zzzs

Laura M. Holson

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/business/bob-ross-sleep-meditation-app.html

Web

June 12, 2018

Join The Calm Team

https://youtu.be/XQ1fSSfIjMo

May 21, 2019

Michael Acton Smith: 'We want to show meditation is common sense'

Ian Tucker

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/08/michael-acton-smith-meditation-common-sense-moshi-monsters-calm-app

Web

October 8, 2017

Relaxation app Calm raises $88 million, valuing it $1 billion

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/05/calm-raises-88-million-valuing-the-meditation-app-at-1-billion.html

February 6, 2019

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