What Makana does

Makana is a Chilean enterprise SaaS company founded in 2022 that delivers an AI-powered, modular corporate wellness platform to HR and occupational health buyers at large organizations. The platform is structured around five wellness dimensions — Mental Health (live), Physical Health (live), with Nutrition, Social, and Financial Well-being modules in development — and is delivered through the company's conversational AI assistant 'Alma', a personalization/recommendation engine, a gamification layer (points, streaks, achievements), and an HR analytics dashboard that surfaces usage, trends, and impact metrics by work area. Distribution runs through direct enterprise sales, an employee self-serve portal (portal.makana.cl), and a dedicated insurer channel under the 'Para Aseguradoras' positioning, with revenue generated via quote-based, modular B2B SaaS subscriptions that expand as customers add wellness dimensions over time.

The company has established enterprise traction in Chile across a diversified mix of large organizations — aquaculture (Mowi, Aquachile, Humboldt, Friosur), mining (Teck), logistics (DP World), food services (Aramark), insurance (SURA, Marsh), industrial services (Ultramar), commodity trading (Multix), and education (Universidad Católica de Chile as research partner). Documented customer outcomes include 80% daily adoption at Marsh, 70% participation at Mowi Chacabuco, a 0% accident rate at Mowi Chacabuco in 2025, a 94.2% session-level improvement perception rate, and a randomized controlled study with Chile's ANID research agency and academics from UC Chile that validated a 17.5% reduction in medical leave among users of the physical wellness module — the evidentiary backbone of the company's go-to-market narrative.

Makana is privately held, headquartered in Providencia, Santiago, with a headcount reported at 11–50 employees. It is institutionally backed by CORFO and Startup Chile alongside Google for Startups, with a disclosed $20,000 cash seed from Aster in April 2023. The website and product surface are primarily in Spanish, current operating geographies are disclosed only as Santiago/Chile, and there is no published revenue, ARR, or cap-table data — making revenue triangulation inherently limited and investment signals more qualitative than quantitative.

Name

Makana

Legal name

Makana

Website

https://con.makana.cl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Makana is a Chilean AI-powered corporate wellness SaaS platform serving enterprise HR and occupational health buyers. Its modular offering spans mental health and physical health, with upcoming nutrition, social, and financial well-being modules, powered by a conversational AI agent for personalization and outcome measurement.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Wellness Software

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Wellbeing, Mental Health & Employee Assistance (EAP) (BPACAPAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Workplace Wellness & Wellbeing Education (EDAAAHAN), Mind-Body Wellness Coaching (Holistic/Integrative) (HSADAGAG), Wellness Program Design & Accountability Coaching (HSADAGAC), Employee Financial Wellness Platforms (Workplace PFM) (FSAGADAK)

Keywords

• Corporate wellness software
• Employee wellbeing platform
• AI wellness recommendations
• Occupational health analytics
• HR benefits technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Santiago

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Enterprise SaaS Subscription (Modular Platform): Makana operates on a B2B SaaS subscription model, where companies pay to access the modular wellness platform. Enterprises select and pay for the modules (wellness dimensions) they want to activate for their workforce. The modular structure implies a per-module or tiered licensing approach, with the ability to expand over time as more modules become available.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Makana provides an AI-powered modular corporate wellness platform that enterprises subscribe to in order to deliver employee wellbeing programs across multiple dimensions. The platform combines a conversational AI assistant ("Alma"), personalized daily routine recommendations, gamification mechanics, and an HR/occupational-health analytics dashboard. Enterprises select and activate individual wellness modules — currently mental health and physical health, with nutrition, social, and financial wellbeing planned — and pay via a B2B SaaS subscription model.

Product overview

Makana is an AI-powered modular well-being platform for enterprises. The core platform integrates AI capabilities through its assistant 'Alma' and provides an analytics dashboard and gamification system. The offering is structured as a modular system where companies can choose from available modules: Salud Mental (Mental Health, Live), Salud Física (Physical Health, Live), Nutrición (Nutrition, Coming Soon), Salud Social (Social Health, Coming Soon), and Bienestar Financiero (Financial Well-being, Coming Soon). Companies select the modules they need today and expand at their own pace, with each module being AI-powered and interconnected through the central platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Makana Platform Modular AI-powered wellbeing SaaS platform that enterprises license to deliver employee wellness programs; combines personalized routine recommendations, conversational AI, gamification, and HR analytics across multiple wellbeing dimensions.
• Salud Mental Module (Mental Health Module) Live mental-health module on the Makana Platform that delivers AI-powered conversations, check-ins, and emotional wellbeing support to enterprise employees via the AI assistant Alma.
• Salud Física Module (Physical Health Module)

Quantifiable outcome

• 17.5% reduction in medical leave (licencias médicas) validated in a randomized controlled study with ANID and academics from Universidad Católica de Chile
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ANID (Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023ANID, Chile's national research agency, co-funded a scientific study with Makana and academics from Universidad Católica de Chile through the 'Fondo Startup Ciencia' program. The study validated that users of Makana's physical wellness module experienced 17.5% less absenteeism. This partnership provides Makana with peer-reviewed scientific validation — a significant competitive differentiator in the corporate wellness market.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Limeade: Limeade (now part of Telus Health) is an established enterprise well-being platform targeting HR buyers with engagement, analytics, and whole-person health programs — competing head-to-head in the same corporate wellness category as Makana.
• WellSteps: WellSteps is an evidence-based corporate wellness solution for employers, with a similar ROI-and-engagement orientation. Both compete on data-driven wellness outcomes for HR and risk-prevention buyers.
• Headspace for Work: Headspace for Work sells mental health and mindfulness as an employee benefit to enterprises. Makana competes in the same HR-led wellness purchasing motion, particularly against Headspace's mental health module.
• Calm Business: Calm Business extends the Calm consumer mental wellness app into employer benefits, directly overlapping with Makana's mental health module and competing for HR/benefits budget in the same enterprise wellness category.
• Wellbeats: Wellbeats provides on-demand wellness content for employees covering fitness, nutrition, and mental well-being via a SaaS platform — directly comparable to Makana's modular, multi-dimension wellness library delivered to enterprise employees.
• Modern Health: Modern Health is a global mental health platform for employers combining self-service content, coaching, and therapy — overlapping with Makana's AI-driven mental health check-ins and employer benefits positioning.
• Wellable: Wellable offers a customizable corporate wellness platform with challenges, content, and analytics modules — closely mirroring Makana's modular B2B architecture and HR dashboard positioning.
• Spring Health: Spring Health provides employer-sponsored mental health benefits including assessments, coaching, and therapy. Makana's AI-driven mental wellness and personalization competes with Spring Health's precision-matching model for HR buyer dollars.
• Wellable: Wellable is a B2B SaaS employee wellness platform offering customizable, modular programs across activity, nutrition, and mental health for enterprise HR buyers — the closest direct comparable to Makana's modular wellness model.

Broad incumbents

• Virgin Pulse: Virgin Pulse is a global incumbent in employer wellness, offering a comprehensive SaaS platform with behavior change, mental health, and analytics — providing the full-suite alternative Makana must compete against for enterprise contracts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

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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