Lyra Health

Lyra Health provides employer-sponsored mental health benefits, matching employees to evidence-based therapy, coaching, and medication management through an AI-driven matching platform. Valued at $5.6B in 2022. Raised $900M+. Covers 10M+ members globally. Consistently cited as IPO candidate. Uses AI matching to pair members with therapists based on clinical fit.

Lyra demonstrated that employer-channel behavioral health can scale to a multi-billion-dollar valuation with clinical outcomes data; its focus on evidence-based modalities and measured ROI set the bar for the category.

lyrahealth.com Behavioral Health Platforms

United Statesprivate

At a glance

Total raised

$890.1M

last round series g

Headcount

1k-5k

approximate · public range

Headquarters

Burlingame

United States

Founded

2015

11 years active

Status

Private

Behavioral Health Platforms

Latest valuation

$5.6B

Series G · 2022

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Funding history

Total raised

$890.1M

Rounds tracked

Latest stage

Series G

Latest valuation

$5.6B

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Jan 19, 2022	Series G	$235M	$5.6B	Dragoneer Investment Group
Jun 14, 2021	Series F	$200M	$4.6B	Coatue Management
Jan 28, 2021	Series E	$187M	$2.3B	Addition, Durable Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Co., Baillie Gifford
Aug 25, 2020	Series D	$110M	—	Addition
Mar 11, 2020	Series C	$75M	—	—
May 7, 2018	Series B	$45M	—	—
Oct 14, 2015	Series A	$35M	—	Greylock Partners, Venrock
Jun 26, 2015	Seed	$3.1M	—	Castlight Health

Founder backgrounds

David Ebersman

Chairman of the Board

Co-founded Lyra Health in 2015 after a career spanning healthcare and high-growth technology. Earned an A.B. in International Relations and Economics from Brown University, then spent 15 years at Genentech in business development, product operations, and ultimately as CFO. Served as CFO of Facebook from 2009 to 2014, where he orchestrated the company's 2012 IPO — at the time the largest U.S. internet IPO. That blend of operational scaling experience and deep healthcare domain expertise directly informed Lyra's model: applying data-driven matching and measurement to employer-sponsored mental health benefits. He served as Lyra's CEO from founding through early 2025, when he transitioned to Chairman of the Board.

Dena Bravata

Co-founder (former Chief Medical Officer, 2015–2016)

A physician and health-services researcher by training, with a B.S. from Yale, an M.D. from Columbia, and an M.S. in health policy from Stanford, where she also completed an internal medicine residency and ambulatory care fellowship. Prior to Lyra, she was the founding chief medical officer and head of products at **Castlight Health** (2008–2014), a healthcare transparency platform that went public on the NYSE. She also maintained a private internal medicine practice for 16 years and served as an attending physician at Stanford and the Palo Alto VA. Her extensive research on clinical effectiveness and healthcare quality directly informed the evidence-based matching engine that became Lyra's core differentiator in employer-sponsored mental health.

AI bull / bear

Bull case

Lyra sits at the intersection of three durable tailwinds: employer desperation to control healthcare costs, the destigmatization of mental health treatment, and AI-driven personalization. Its core differentiator—matching members to therapists based on clinical fit rather than mere availability—generates the outcomes data that CHROs and benefits leaders need to justify per-employee-per-month spend. That evidence base, spanning modalities from CBT to medication management, creates a widening moat against legacy EAPs and less rigorous point solutions. With $890 million in funding, a $5.6 billion valuation backed by Dragoneer, and 10 million covered lives, Lyra has the balance sheet to absorb the cash burn required to land multinational accounts. The IPO overhang is real, but in a market starved of growth stories with genuine revenue substance, Lyra's employer-paid model and demonstrated ROI make it one of the healthier candidates to go public when the window reopens.

Bear case

A 2022 valuation of $5.6 billion, struck at the peak of both digital health enthusiasm and zero-rate policy, looks increasingly disconnected from reality. The absence of any new funding round in over two years raises uncomfortable questions: is Lyra unable to raise without a down-round, or is cash burn manageable enough to wait? Neither answer is good. The employer benefits stack is under assault from procurement consolidation; HR leaders are cutting point solutions and Lyra must now beat integrated incumbents like Optum and the health plans themselves, which are building behavioral health networks in-house. Competitors Spring Health and Modern Health offer similar AI-matching narratives, diluting Lyra's once-distinctive positioning. Meanwhile, if a recession forces employers to trim voluntary benefits, mental health line items get scrutinized fast. A stalled IPO leaves late-stage investors locked up and employees watching equity grants stagnate—hardly a recipe for retaining the clinical and engineering talent the platform needs.

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Leadership

David Ebersman

Chairman of the Board

Dena Bravata

Co-founder (former Chief Medical Officer, 2015–2016)

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Jennifer Schulz

Chief Executive Officer

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Matt Klitus

Chief Financial Officer

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Jenny Gonsalves

Chief Product & Technology Officer

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Stephanie Frias

Chief People Officer

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Sean McBride

Chief Revenue Officer

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Connie Chen

Chief Medical Officer

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Products

Lyra Therapy
Lyra Therapy delivers evidence-based mental health treatment through a blended care model that combines live video sessions with licensed therapists with personalized digital tools and exercises. Designed for employees and their families, it treats conditions ranging from anxiety and depression to trauma. Lyra's AI-powered matching connects members to the right provider within their network in under a day, and independent peer-reviewed research shows members recover twice as fast compared to traditional care.
Lyra Coaching
Lyra Coaching provides skill-building mental health support for individuals facing mild to moderate challenges such as stress, work-life balance, and relationship issues. Members work one-on-one with trained coaches through live sessions and guided practice exercises. The program emphasizes proactive, preventative mental health care and helps employees build resilience and coping skills before issues escalate into more severe conditions.
Lyra Complex Care
Lyra Complex Care offers intensive, specialized support for individuals with severe or persistent mental health conditions such as severe depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and substance use disorders. The program coordinates care across therapists, psychiatrists, and other specialists to deliver a comprehensive treatment plan. Complex Care ensures that members with the most challenging mental health needs receive the high-touch, coordinated care necessary for recovery.
Lyra Medication Management
Lyra Medication Management connects members with board-certified psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners for medication evaluation, prescribing, and ongoing monitoring. The service is fully integrated with Lyra's therapy and coaching offerings to provide holistic, coordinated mental health care. Members receive personalized medication plans, regular follow-ups, and seamless communication between their prescribing clinician and therapist, all through a single digital platform.
Lyra Preventive Care Suite
The Lyra Preventive Care Suite includes Guided Self-Care and live messaging capabilities designed to support employees with mild mental health concerns before they worsen. Guided Self-Care combines clinically proven coaching exercises with online tools and structured lessons addressing stress, relationships, sleep, and life transitions. This preventive approach helps employers reduce downstream healthcare costs while promoting overall workforce well-being through early intervention and accessible digital self-help resources.

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