SALUS Global

What SALUS Global does

SALUS Global (operating as SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, DBA "SALUS") is a private knowledge community platform owned by Sansom & Sansom Associates Limited, a UK private limited company registered in England and Wales. The platform is designed for professionals working at the intersection of human and planetary health, with a particular emphasis on the built environment — including healthcare facility design, sustainable architecture, and urban health. Its audience comprises researchers, practitioners, policy advisors, architects, designers, and allied professionals globally.

The product surface is built as an integrated ecosystem of five interconnected modules: Community (member profiles, research and discussion groups, content posting), Journal (peer-style publication of research papers, articles, conference talks, posters, market reports, and technology/innovation showcases), Events (a searchable database of seminars, conferences, and exhibitions), Projects (a searchable database of built environment case studies from healthcare, mental health, and multi-purpose facilities), and Marketplace (a directory of organisations, services, and products). The underlying technology is a web-based content management system with searchable databases and community features; no proprietary AI/ML components, APIs, SDKs, or developer-facing infrastructure are documented.

The business model is freemium. Individual membership is free and grants access to community features, profiles, and public content. Commercial organisations and event hosts must purchase Premium Services to create organisation or event profiles on the platform, representing the primary monetisation mechanism. Specific pricing is not publicly disclosed. The parent company maintains a headquarters in Billericay, Essex and a registered office at the same location. SALUS is GDPR-compliant, has no external institutional investors, no recorded funding rounds, and operates without disclosed headcount or revenue figures. The platform serves content from at least ten countries across Europe, North America, and Asia, and claims a global community footprint.

Name

SALUS Global

Legal name

Sansom & Sansom Associates Limited

Website

https://salus.global

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SALUS Global is a private UK-based knowledge community platform serving researchers, practitioners, and policy professionals in human and planetary health, with a focus on built environment and healthcare facility design. It operates a freemium model across Community, Journal, Events, Projects, and Marketplace modules, monetising through paid Premium Services for commercial organisations and event hosts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Knowledge Community Platform

NAICS

Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (MERL) for Global Health (BPADAIAO)

Keywords

• Knowledge community platform
• Sustainable built environment
• Healthcare design research
• Professional networking platform
• Human and planetary health

Headquarters

HQ city

Billericay

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Premium Services for Organisations: Commercial organisations and event members are required to purchase Premium Services to create profiles on the platform. Non-commercial organisations may apply for free service.
2. Free Individual Membership: Individual members receive free access to community features, profiles, groups, discussions, and journal content as part of free services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SALUS Global is an online knowledge community platform where members create personal profiles, join research and discussion groups, post articles and videos, and access a Journal of research and policy content, a searchable Projects database of sustainable built environment case studies, an Events directory of relevant conferences and seminars, and a Marketplace of organisations, services and products. The platform monetises through paid Premium Services membership for commercial organisations and event hosts, while individual professionals receive free access.

Product overview

SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange is a knowledge community platform for professionals in human and planetary health. The platform consists of a unified ecosystem of interconnected modules: Community (networking, profiles, groups, discussions), Journal (articles, papers, talks, posters), Events (conferences, seminars, exhibitions), Projects (built environment case studies database), and Marketplace (organisations, services, products directory). The platform offers tiered membership: free Individual Membership with basic profile and community access, and premium Organisation Membership and Event Membership for commercial entities requiring enhanced visibility and features.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Individual Membership

Quantifiable outcome

• Platform hosts content from researchers and practitioners worldwide on topics spanning healthcare design, sustainable environments, and planetary health.

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ARMcoreTechnology or Integration · 8 June 2017ARM partnered with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) to develop brain-implantable system-on-a-chip solutions for neurodegenerative diseases. ARM provides its Cortex-M0 processor, the smallest and most power-efficient processor, for the brain-computer interface technology.
• Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 June 2017National Science Foundation engineering research centre at the University of Washington developing bi-directional brain-computer interfaces for addressing neurodegenerative disorders. Partnering with ARM to develop system-on-a-chip for medical applications.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Eventbrite: Self-serve event listing and ticketing platform. SALUS Events is a niche listings layer; Eventbrite is the broader transactional marketplace for events. Indirectly comparable as event-discovery infrastructure.
• World Health Organization (WHO) Publications: Source of authoritative global health research and policy content. Not a direct community competitor, but a foundational reference body whose publications SALUS often surfaces and discusses on its platform.

Direct peers

• Dezeen: Architecture and design media covering projects, products, and events globally. Overlaps with SALUS's project showcase and journal content, though Dezeen is more design-led and broader in scope.
• Architizer: Architecture project database and marketplace with firm profiles and product listings. Directly comparable to SALUS Projects and Marketplace, with overlap in target audience of architects and built-environment professionals.
• ArchDaily: Leading architecture media platform with project database, news, and event listings - directly overlapping with SALUS Projects, Journal, and Events modules. Focused on architecture rather than health-and-sustainability specifically.
• Health Design Plus / Center for Health Design: US-based organization promoting evidence-based design of healthcare facilities through research, publications, and events. The closest direct peer in terms of healthcare architecture knowledge community, with comparable Journal and Events functions.

Broad incumbents

• ResearchGate: Global professional network for researchers to share papers, ask questions, and find collaborators. Overlaps with SALUS Journal and Community functions but spans all scientific disciplines rather than the health-sustainability niche.
• LinkedIn: The dominant professional networking platform, with groups, articles, and event features that overlap with SALUS Community, Journal, and Events. Mass-market scale makes SALUS's niche focus its only differentiator.
• Academia.edu: Academic paper-sharing and networking platform with a premium subscription model. Comparable freemium + paid-tier structure to SALUS, though focused on general academia rather than built-environment health.

Emerging players

• TED (TED Conferences): Knowledge-sharing platform featuring talks, articles, and events on global issues including health and sustainability. Overlaps with SALUS Journal and Events modules at the ideas-and-discourse layer, but with much broader scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/salus-global-knowledge-exchange

Compliance1 record

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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