Czech mental health platform Hedepy has acquired HearMe, a Polish provider focused on workplace mental health support. Active in nine markets across Central and Eastern Europe, Hedepy offers comprehensive services for individuals and businesses and plans to strengthen its position by consolidating the European market and integrating new brands.
Founded in 2020, Hedepy is an online psychotherapy platform delivering mental health and psychiatric support to individuals, workplaces, and schools through an app with self-help tools. Within its first years, the company expanded into eight other European countries, including Poland.
Lukáš Krčil, CEO and co-founder of Hedepy, commented:
We’ve been active in Poland for three years, helping thousands of people, and we now see strong demand from companies in particular. Acquiring HearMe is a strategic step for us. It allows us to specialize further in corporate care, while also offering HearMe’s clients access to our services abroad. These synergies make perfect sense to us. Equally important is that we align on a human level and share the same vision of what modern mental health care should look like, not only in companies.
HearMe, also founded in 2020, supports employers and HR teams by providing employees with psychological support through video and chat sessions, webinars, educational resources, and tailored well-being programs.
Talks about the transaction began last autumn, with the final agreement reached in the first half of this year. Following the merger, both platforms will operate under the Hedepy brand and expand corporate services under Hedepy for Business, which will include employee therapy, mood tracking, webinars, and educational content. HearMe will enhance these offerings with locally tailored content and improved app functionality.
Katarzyna Gryzło, co-founder of HearMe, shared:
Merging with Hedepy is a logical step that opens doors to new markets while preserving the personal approach, high expertise, and quick accessibility, that our Polish clients value most. We considered several options but chose Hedepy because we share a similar company culture and a strong commitment to business with purpose.
Hedepy plans to replicate the successful Polish model in other markets.
Poland was crucial for us as it’s the largest market in our region with a highly developed mental health sector. We also greatly value having Katarzyna and Adam join our team. Adam brings extensive experience in consolidating the CEE market, and Katarzyna has deep expertise in providing corporate mental health care,
adds Lukáš Krčil.
The company expects to break even by the end of 2025 with a projected GTV of €13 million and is preparing for a new investment round.
We are pleased that Hedepy continues to confirm its strong market position and prove it is moving in the right direction. The successful merger with the Polish platform has created a solid foundation for developing corporate services and paves the way for further acquisitions,
says Jan Davídek, partner at Purple Ventures, one of Hedepy’s regular investors.
Hedepy already leads the online psychotherapy market in Slovakia, Romania, and Greece, and is among the top providers in Slovenia, Hungary, Lithuania, and Ukraine. The platform works with around 1,000 therapists, delivering hundreds of thousands of sessions annually.
Looking ahead, Hedepy plans to combine online and in-person care while responsibly integrating artificial intelligence into its services.
AI represents a major technological advancement and is increasingly finding its place in mental health care. That makes it all the more important to approach its use thoughtfully and responsibly. This is exactly what we are working on now,
says Lukáš Krčil.
The acquisition adds over 80 corporate clients and more than 120 professionals, including psychologists, psychotherapists, coaches, nutritionists, and physiotherapists. HearMe’s founders, Adam Radzki and Katarzyna Gryzło, will join Hedepy’s leadership team, with Radzki driving business development in Poland as Head of Sales and Gryzło leading B2B marketing across the group.
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