| Lyra mental health service teams up with Calm meditation app | | |  | FRI, OCT 23, 2020 | | | | | | TECH, TRANSFORMATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK | | | | Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up.
The demand to provide employees services and tools to help manage stress and burnout has only increased in recent months, and a new partnership is underway to find a digital solve.
Employee mental health services start-up Lyra Health is adding a new slate of services in partnership with the Calm app, focused on meditation, mindfulness and sleep support. With Lyra's reported $140 million in funding (according to Crunchbase) and Lyra's $288 million raised, there's not just a need for these employee-wellness centric offerings, but the confidence to back them. And one social media company seeing all-time market highs is the first to sign onto the deal. Learn more.
More that stood out to us this week: As working from home goes on indefinitely, the competition over productivity and collaboration platform dominance heats up. Plus, a future-focused streaming service that was going to rewrite the future of content as we know it is now shutting down just six months into existence. Read more at the links below.
Programming note: Thursday, October 29 is our Technology Executive Council Summit, featuring Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake; Alex Stamos, former Chief Security Officer at Facebook; Alexis Wichowski, Deputy CTO – Innovation at the City of New York; and Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO & Co-Founder of Akamai Technologies. The event will bring together CIOs, CTOs and CISOs and we encourage you to join us. Apply for a seat on the Council today!
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