Elona Health

What Elona Health does

Elona Health GmbH is a Düsseldorf-based digital health company founded in 2021 that develops CE-marked Class I medical devices delivered as Digital Health Applications (DiGA) within the German statutory healthcare framework. Its flagship product, elona therapy Depression, is listed in the BfArM DiGA registry (PZN 18458314) and is prescribed by psychotherapists and physicians to patients in outpatient psychotherapy for depression and anxiety disorders, providing CBT-based therapeutic content, exercises, mood diaries, and psychometric assessments (BDI-II, SCL-90, STAI-T) to extend therapy into patients' daily lives between sessions. The companion app elona explore (PZN 19822147) targets the same condition cluster (depression, anxiety, OCD, adjustment disorders, somatoform disorders) for patients on psychotherapy waiting lists, and the 2025-launched elona therapy für Gruppentherapie extends the core product into group therapy settings.

The technical platform combines iOS and Android mobile apps (with on-device biometric authentication via Touch ID / Face ID), a therapist-facing web portal (therapist.elona.app) for patient management and exercise assignment, and back-end infrastructure hosted on German servers via OVH GmbH and CHINO S.R.L-S-, with ISO/IEC 27001 certification (TÜV SÜD) and GDPR/DSGVO compliance. Content personalization is driven by psychometric inputs and treatment phase, while Sentry (error monitoring), Matomo (analytics), Zammad (support), HubSpot (CRM), Heyflow (forms), Mollie (payments), and NOVENTI (GKV billing) form the operational vendor stack.

Elona Health operates a B2B2C prescription-driven distribution model. For statutory health insurance (GKV) patients, prescriptions are reimbursed extrabudgetarily under § 33a SGB V at no cost to the patient; for private insurance and self-payers, a Freischaltcode (activation code) is sold directly at €229.50 per 90-day license with payment processed via Mollie. From April 2025, prescribers can additionally bill GOP 01479 (~€7.93 per monitoring session, twice per case/year). Commercial growth is driven by a Therapy Success Manager field team conducting prescriber onboarding, CME-accredited training (Fortbildungen), and content marketing — all concentrated in a single market (Germany) with no public funding, revenue, or prescription volume disclosed beyond two early-stage rounds (2021, November 2022 with AQAL Integral Investing and Evodia).

Name

Elona Health

Legal name

Elona Health GmbH

Website

https://elona.health

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Elona Health GmbH is a Düsseldorf-based digital health company that builds CE-marked DiGA mobile applications — elona therapy and elona explore — prescribed by German psychotherapists and physicians to support patients with depression and anxiety disorders before and during outpatient psychotherapy, reimbursed via GKV and direct purchase.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Mental Health Therapeutics (DiGA)

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (62142), Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health & Neurocognitive Therapeutics (Digital) (HLACANAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Therapeutic Companion Apps (Drug-Device-Digital Combination) (HLACANAH)

Keywords

• Digital therapeutics
• Mental health apps
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Digital health applications
• Psychotherapy support

Headquarters

HQ city

Düsseldorf

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Statutory Health Insurance Reimbursement (GKV): As a listed DiGA, elona therapy is fully reimbursed by German statutory health insurers. Prescribers issue a Freischaltcode (activation code) valid for 90 days. The DiGA cost does not burden the prescriber's budget and is extrabudgetarily compensated under § 33a SGB V.
2. Private Insurance & Self-Payer Purchase: Privately insured patients and self-payers purchase a Freischaltcode directly from Elona Health for €229.50 per 90-day license. Patients can submit the invoice to their private insurer for potential reimbursement.
3. Therapist EBM Billing Code GOP 01479: Since April 2025, therapists can bill GOP 01479 (64 EBM points, approx. €7.93) for monitoring and evaluating elona therapy usage — up to twice per DiGA per case within one year. This provides a revenue stream for prescribers.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Elona Health develops and sells CE-marked Class I medical device apps (DiGA — Digitale Gesundheitsanwendungen) that support outpatient psychotherapy for depression and anxiety disorders. elona therapy Depression extends therapeutic intervention between in-person sessions through CBT-based exercises and psychometric-driven adaptive content, while elona explore provides structured mental health support to bridge waiting periods before psychotherapy begins. The therapist-facing web portal (therapist.elona.app) enables prescribers to assign content, monitor symptom data, and manage patient care.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• elona therapy Depression A CE-marked Class I DiGA (digital health application) that supports adult patients undergoing outpatient psychotherapy for unipolar depression. It delivers CBT-based therapeutic content, exercises, mood diaries, and psychometric tracking between in-person sessions, with personalized content delivery adapted to symptom severity and treatment phase.
• elona explore A first-aid DiGA providing structured mental health support for adults with depression, anxiety/panic disorders, OCD, adjustment disorders, and somatoform disorders. Bridges the ~5-month wait for a first psychotherapy appointment through interventions, exercises, and psychoeducational content.
• elona therapy für Gruppentherapie (Group Therapy) An extension of elona therapy designed for group therapy settings, providing features for therapeutic group interventions alongside the existing individual therapy accompaniment for depression.
• Therapist Portal (therapist.elona.app) A free web-based portal where psychotherapists and physicians create patient profiles, select and assign disorder-specific exercises from CBT-based courses, monitor symptom progressions through mood diaries and psychometric data, review session feedback, and manage prescriptions for their patients.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 65% of patients with depression or anxiety disorders relapse after treatment
• +4 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OVH GmbHcoreTechnology or IntegrationOVH GmbH (Oskar-Jäger-Str. 173/K6, 50825 Köln, Germany) serves as the primary hosting and cloud infrastructure provider for elona therapy. It provides the technical infrastructure for operating the web application, including cloud storage. All data processing occurs exclusively in data centers in Germany.
• CHINO S.R.L-S-coreTechnology or IntegrationCHINO S.R.L-S- (Via Segantini 28, 38068 Rovereto, Italy) specializes in DSGVO-compliant hosting of medical data. It supports Elona Health in storing personal data, including health data, with all data stored exclusively in Germany.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• HelloBetter: HelloBetter (formerly GET.ON Institute) operates multiple listed DiGAs in Germany for depression, stress, insomnia, and panic — directly competing with elona therapy for the same psychotherapist prescribers and statutory reimbursement pool.
• GAIA AG: GAIA AG is one of the largest German DiGA providers with products including deprexis (depression) and other CBT-based digital therapeutics. It competes head-to-head with Elona Health for therapist prescriptions in the same indications.
• Selfapy: Selfapy operates listed German DiGAs for depression, panic, and burnout, using a similar CBT-based therapy companion model with therapist involvement — directly comparable to elona therapy's positioning.
• Mindable Health: Mindable Health is a German DiGA provider focused on panic disorder and agoraphobia, sharing the same B2B2C prescription model and statutory reimbursement pathway as Elona Health.
• Sympatient: Sympatient provides a listed DiGA for anxiety disorders, including agoraphobia and panic, distributed via the same psychotherapist prescription channel in Germany — directly overlapping with Elona Health's anxiety-focused elona explore.
• mementor: mementor offers the listed DiGA somnovia for insomnia, operating under the same BfArM regulatory and reimbursement framework as Elona Health and competing for psychotherapist prescribing slots.
• OCEAN (formerly Aidhere): OCEAN (formerly Aidhere) developed the German DiGA zanadio for weight management and pivoted into adjacent digital health, sharing the BfArM listing pathway and German statutory reimbursement model with Elona Health.

Broad incumbents

• Kaia Health: Kaia Health is a broader digital therapeutics company offering MSK and chronic pain programs with multiple listed DiGAs. While not focused on mental health, it shares the same BfArM listing and German reimbursement pathway as Elona Health.
• Lyra Health: Lyra Health is a large US-based mental health benefits platform combining virtual therapy, coaching, and digital tools for employers. While it operates outside Germany, it represents a broader incumbent model for technology-enabled mental health delivery that informs Elona Health's market context.

Emerging players

• Meru Health: Meru Health provides a digital mental health program combining CBT with therapist support, primarily in the US and Nordic markets. It overlaps with Elona Health in digital CBT delivery for depression and anxiety but operates outside the German DiGA channel.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/elona-health
• Instagraminstagram.com/elonahealth

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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