What Arena Labs does

Arena Labs is a privately held B2B SaaS company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, founded by Navy SEAL veteran Brian Ferguson in 2016 (per firmographic data) or 2017 (per company history) to apply elite athletic, military, and creative performance principles to frontline healthcare workers. Its flagship platform, Arena Strive, integrates three components: wearable sensor data and insights for tracking sleep, recovery, and readiness metrics; a tailored healthcare curriculum delivered via short videos taught by top scientists and human performance experts; and on-demand digital coaching featuring evidence-based techniques such as the deactivation breath and physiologic sigh. The platform is validated by a peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open study demonstrating a 33% reduction in clinician burnout within 8 weeks, with users reporting a 42% improvement in happiness at work and an average 30% burnout score reduction.

The company sells Arena Strive primarily through direct enterprise field sales to healthcare systems, targeting C-suite and clinical leadership buyers at major U.S. hospitals. It currently works with 17 top U.S. health systems, including HCA Healthcare, Cleveland Clinic, Advocate Health, Stanford Medicine, Penn Medicine, and Baylor College of Medicine, and has expanded into Canada and Austria, with Salzburg Hospital as a named international partner. In February 2025, Arena Labs and Penn Medicine were jointly selected by the United States Air Force to develop innovations in frontline clinician wellbeing, signaling government-sector validation. For leadership buyers, the company offers an Impact Calculator for ROI quantification and a Predictive Performance analytics product, extending the platform from individual clinician tools into organizational decision support.

Arena Labs has raised approximately $6 million across disclosed funding rounds, including a 2021 seed led by Scout Ventures and a 2024 round of nearly $6 million from Locke Capital, Scout Ventures, LaunchTN, and Crisis Prevention Institute. The company employs 11-50 people and states it expects to reach profitability later this year or early next. Revenue is generated through enterprise subscription contracts with healthcare systems, with pricing negotiated on a quote basis rather than publicly disclosed.

Name

Arena Labs

Legal name

Arena Labs

Website

https://arenalabs.global

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Arena Labs is a Nashville-based B2B SaaS company that sells its Arena Strive performance platform to U.S. health systems, applying elite athletic and military performance science to reduce burnout among frontline clinicians.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Workforce Performance Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Medication Adherence, Digital Therapeutics & Remote Coaching (condition-specific programs) (HLALAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Wellness Program Design & Accountability Coaching (HSADAGAC)

Keywords

• Healthcare performance software
• Clinician burnout solutions
• Wearable health analytics
• Medical staff wellness
• Performance coaching platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Nashville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription (B2B SaaS): Arena Labs sells its Arena Strive platform to healthcare systems and hospitals on a subscription basis, likely per-clinician or per-seat licensing. The company targets enterprise health system buyers and expects to reach profitability, suggesting a sustainable recurring revenue model.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Arena Labs sells the Arena Strive platform, a B2B SaaS digital performance science application for frontline healthcare workers. It combines wearable sensor data integration, a tailored short-video curriculum taught by elite scientists and human performance experts, and on-demand individual performance coaching. The platform also provides healthcare leaders with an Impact Calculator for ROI modeling and Predictive Performance analytics, and has been validated by a peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open study showing a 33% reduction in clinician burnout within eight weeks.

Product overview

Arena Labs offers Arena Strive, a unified human performance platform for healthcare teams that combines three integrated components: Data Analytics (wearable sensor data and insights), a Curriculum (short videos taught by top scientists and human performance experts), and Individual Performance Coaching (on-demand digital coaching). The platform is branded as 'High Performance Medicine®' and aims to bring elite performance science tools—typically used by world-class athletes, elite military, and creative performers—to frontline healthcare workers. The company also provides supplementary tools for healthcare leaders including Predictive Performance analytics and an Impact Calculator.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Arena Strive: The company's flagship performance science platform for healthcare teams, featuring wearable sensor data and insights, tailored healthcare curriculum with short videos, and individual performance coaching. Validated by a peer-reviewed study in JAMA Network Open showing 33% reduction in clinician burnout.
• High Performance Medicine

Products and services

• Arena Strive A B2B SaaS human performance platform for frontline healthcare workers that combines wearable sensor data and insights, a short-video curriculum taught by elite scientists and human performance experts, and on-demand individual performance coaching. Deployed by health systems to reduce clinician burnout, improve sleep and recovery, and build stress management skills, with a 5-minute-per-day time commitment and a peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open validation showing 33% burnout reduction in 8 weeks.

Quantifiable outcome

• 33% reduction in clinician burnout within 8 weeks (peer-reviewed, JAMA Network Open)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• University of Pennsylvania MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 February 2025Arena Labs and Penn Medicine were jointly selected by the United States Air Force to innovate in frontline clinician wellbeing, representing a major strategic partnership combining clinical expertise with performance science.
• United States Air ForcecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe US Air Force selected Arena Labs and Penn Medicine to develop innovations in frontline clinician wellbeing, indicating government validation of the platform's effectiveness.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights1 record

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/arena_labs
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC99NcRMAenBZzr8hKMFvBYg
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/arena-labs
• Instagraminstagram.com/arenalabs/?hl=en

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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