Achieving a healthy work-life balance is not always easy, but it is essential for long-term wellbeing. Since people spend so much of their time at work, the right support can make a meaningful difference to employees’ mental health, motivation, and overall quality of life.
In recent years, employee wellbeing has gained greater visibility, with startups developing more specialised solutions across areas such as mental health support, care benefits, AI-supported coaching, flexible perks, and services designed to make everyday life easier for workers.
For companies, these tools are becoming part of a broader effort to improve retention, reduce disengagement or build healthier workplace cultures.
Today, we look at 10 promising startups taking care of employee wellbeing in alphabetical order, all founded between 2021 and today.
Founded in 2022, heycare offers an employee benefit focused on care and wellbeing. Companies can provide flexible care options as a self-service benefit for employees, supporting areas that may otherwise create stress, absences, or additional pressure on HR teams.
Available across the DACH region, the platform is designed for B2B customers looking to strengthen their employee benefits offering while also making use of potential tax advantages. Based in Munich, the startup has raised €5.6 million in funding.
Headquartered in Milan, JetHR develops an integrated platform for hiring, managing and paying employees, designed to reduce the bureaucracy around payroll and talent administration. The platform combines payroll automation with expert, authorised Payroll Advisors, helping companies manage payslips, hiring, contracts, employee administration, payroll costs, expense reports, and related HR processes. It also supports the automatic application of tax breaks.
The platform specially targets Italian SMEs looking to replace fragmented HR processes with a more automated operating system for employee management. Since its funding in 2022, they have successfully secured €41.7 million in funding.
Founded in 2021, Kyan Health is a Swiss employee wellbeing startup focused on workplace mental health. Its platform gives employees access to mental health support, coaching, counselling and self-care tools, while helping companies understand and improve wellbeing across their teams.
Their platform helps companies support employees before stress, burnout or other mental health issues become bigger problems, using AI-powered care pathways and workplace wellbeing insights. The startups raised €15.8 million in funding to continue expanding their employee mental health and wellbeing platform.
Launched in 2022 in Paris, Malibou develops an all-in-one payroll and HR platform. Through Malibou, companies can centralise personnel management, payroll processes and compliance tasks in a single web app, reducing the need to manage HR administration across disconnected tools or manual workflows.
The platform is designed to simplify complex back-office processes such as employee records, payroll administration and regulatory compliance, allowing smaller companies to focus more on running and growing their business. The startup has raised €7.9 million in total funding, supporting its mission to make payroll and HR management easier for French SMEs.
mentalport is a German startup that helps companies take better care of their employees’ mental health. Its platform gives employers a structured way to understand workplace stress, identify risks early, and offer employees support through digital coaching, wellbeing tools, and access to professional coaches.
The startup focuses on making mental health support easier to manage for HR teams, while keeping employee data private and anonymous. It also helps companies meet workplace wellbeing and safety requirements in Germany and internationally. Launched in 2022, mentalport has raised €964.7k in funding.
Tundr is a Milan-based startup that helps companies manage employee benefits through one digital platform. Its solution includes an HR portal, a mobile app, and the Tundr Card, which employees can use to spend their welfare credits across thousands of shops and services, as well as on vouchers, reimbursements, healthcare, training, transport, fitness, and family care.
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