Koalou

What Koalou does

Koalou is a Paris-based digital health startup founded in 2019 that provides a platform for families to manage children's emotional and mental health. The company delivers a parent-facing mobile (iOS) and web application built around Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, offering daily emotional health tracking, structured therapeutic exercises, and age-adapted stories covering concerns such as sleep disturbances, aggression, tantrums, sadness, anxiety, and attention disorders. The platform is anchored by four specialized therapeutic programs: Zencool (anti-stress, 50+ exercises and 20+ family therapy activities), Zenmoov (relocation stress, 7 steps), Zensplit (school phobia, 7 steps), and Zenbirth (postpartum support), all developed in collaboration with psychologists, pediatricians, educators, and perinatal specialists. A separate professional portal (pro.koalou.com) targets healthcare establishments with pain and anxiety assessment tools, age-appropriate therapeutic tales, and a medical dose calculator.

The business model is a hybrid B2B2C structure combining direct-to-consumer iOS app subscriptions with enterprise licensing to pediatric hospitals and clinics, supplemented by psychologist referrals and a retail distribution partnership with C&A France for the Zenbirth program. Named enterprise customers include Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, CHU de Reims, CH de Valenciennes, Clinique Jacques Cartier, and Clinique de la Femme et de l'Enfant (CCBB). Demo requests for B2B prospects are funneled through a HubSpot meeting scheduler, indicating quote-based enterprise pricing, while consumer pricing is not publicly disclosed.

With 1-10 employees, no disclosed venture funding rounds, no public revenue figures, and no documented AI/ML or API capabilities, Koalou operates as an early-stage private company. It is supported by French ecosystem partners including Bpifrance, Willa (Paris), Ville de Paris, and Les Transmetteurs, and has received earned media coverage from Les Échos and Born in Brussels. Geographic operations are confined to France.

Name

Koalou

Legal name

Koalou

Website

https://koalou.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Koalou is a Paris-based digital health platform that helps families manage children's emotional and mental health through a CBT-based parent app, four specialized therapeutic programs (Zencool, Zenmoov, Zensplit, Zenbirth), and a professional platform licensed to French hospitals and clinicians.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Digital Health

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral & Social-Emotional Support (ABA, PBIS, Counseling) (EDAJAKAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Student Wellness & Prevention Programs (Substance Use, Sexual Health, Bullying) (EDAJAIAG)

Keywords

• Pediatric digital health
• Child wellness platform
• Emotional wellbeing programs
• Parent mobile app
• Pediatric professional tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. B2C App Subscriptions: Direct-to-consumer mobile app subscriptions for parents seeking child emotional health tools and therapeutic programs
2. B2B Healthcare Licensing: Licensing and platform access fees for healthcare establishments and hospitals to manage patient relationships throughout care journey

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Koalou is a French digital health company that provides a software platform supporting families in managing children's health and emotional well-being via age-appropriate stories, activities, and tracking tools. It also offers a separate professional-grade version of its platform for hospitals and pediatric clinics, along with themed wellness programs addressing stress, relocation, school phobia, and the postpartum period.

Product overview

Koalou is a digital health platform offering a unified ecosystem with separate interfaces for parents and healthcare professionals, focused on children's emotional and mental health. The platform combines a core parent-facing app for daily emotional tracking and CBT-based exercises, alongside a professional/hospital platform for patient management. Four specialized therapeutic programs extend the offering: Zencool (anti-stress), Zenmoov (relocation support), Zensplit (school phobia), and Zenbirth (postpartum care), all based on cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques. An additional dose calculator tool serves medical professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Zencool: Family anti-stress therapy program based on CBT techniques for children experiencing anxiety and stress
• Zenmoov
• Zensplit
• Zenbirth

Products and services

• Koalou Parent App Mobile and web application for parents and caregivers providing age-appropriate stories, activities, and tracking tools to support children's emotional wellness and day-to-day health.
• Koalou Professional B2B edition of the Koalou platform intended for hospitals and pediatric clinics, supporting clinical deployment of pediatric wellness content and tools within care pathways.
• Zencool Themed Koalou program focused on supporting children experiencing stress, delivered through the platform's age-appropriate content and activities.
• Zenmoov Themed Koalou program addressing the emotional well-being of children during family relocation.
• Zensplit Themed Koalou program targeted at children experiencing school phobia or school refusal.
• Zenbirth Themed Koalou program supporting families during the postpartum period.
• Dose Calculator Medication dosing calculator within the Koalou platform that helps parents determine appropriate doses for children.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduction in tantrums reported within 2 weeks of program start
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Les TransmetteursminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth-focused organization partnering with Koalou. Listed among supporters/partners.
• C&A FrancecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRetail partnership for Zenbirth post-partum program distribution. C&A distributes baby boxes containing Koalou promo codes at their 40+ French store locations, enabling new parents to access the program.
• Healthcare Professionals (Psychologists, Pediatricians, Educators)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDevelopment partnerships with psychologists, pediatricians, and educators for program content creation including Zencool anti-stress program, therapeutic exercises, and age-adapted tales.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Calm: Calm is a broad incumbent in the consumer mental wellness category with family and kids content offerings, and B2B distribution to employers and health plans. It is comparable to Koalou as a subscription-based emotional wellness platform but serves a much broader audience.
• Headspace: Headspace is a broad mental wellness subscription that has expanded into pediatric and family content (Headspace for Kids) and B2B distribution through employers and health plans. It competes for parent wallet share but lacks Koalou's pediatric CBT-program depth and hospital integrations.
• BetterHelp: BetterHelp is a broad online therapy marketplace connecting users to licensed therapists, with growing teen and adolescent offerings. It competes with Koalou's psychologist channel but operates at a much larger scale and via a different delivery model (1:1 human therapy vs. digital CBT programs).
• Talkspace: Talkspace is a B2B2C online therapy platform with a dedicated teen and adolescent therapy product and health plan distribution. It overlaps with Koalou's psychologist-recommendation and hospital channels but at much greater scale and with a human-therapist delivery model.

Emerging players

• Daylight (by Big Health): Big Health's Daylight and Sleepio are digital therapeutics for anxiety and insomnia, distributed via health systems, payers, and employers. The therapeutic-grade, clinician-co-developed approach and B2B healthcare distribution parallel Koalou's CBT-based methodology and hospital channel.
• Woebot Health: Woebot is an AI-chatbot-based digital therapeutic for mental health that has explored pediatric and adolescent use cases and partners with healthcare systems. Its CBT-grounded, clinically developed approach and B2B healthcare distribution make it a comparable emerging player to Koalou.
• Wysa: Wysa is an AI-driven mental health chatbot that supports users with anxiety, stress, and emotional regulation, with dedicated teen and young adult experiences. It overlaps with Koalou on the CBT-based, parent-and-child emotional support layer but is broader in age range.

Direct peers

• Mightier: Mightier is a direct peer - it offers a digital emotional regulation program for children (ages 6-12) that uses biofeedback-based games to teach coping skills, and is distributed to families through both B2C subscriptions and hospital partnerships, mirroring Koalou's B2B2C model.
• Little Otter: Little Otter is a children's mental health platform providing parent coaching, therapy, and digital tools for families with kids experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges. Its family-focused, child-specialized model and clinician-led content make it a direct peer to Koalou.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/KoalouApp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/koalou

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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