--- description: Find out why Calm was selected for the list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2022: Calm image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb25f1aa046012a20/698a3027b21a9c852c505d88/T100-Companies-L-Calm.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Mar 30, 2022 # Calm Mental health at hand by [Mariah Espada](/author/mariah-espada/) ## Mariah Espada Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  In this photo illustration, the wellness and meditation app 'Calm' is seen on a mobile phone on January 11, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. In this photo illustration, the wellness and meditation app 'Calm' is seen on a mobile phone on January 11, 2021 in London, United Kingdom.Edward Smith—Getty Images Tranquility has been hard to come by these days—which helps explain the meteoric rise of Calm, a mindfulness app that saw downloads double over the [course of the pandemic](https://time.com/5943896/covid-19-teen-mental-health/ "undefined"). Calm, which now has 4 million paid subscribers and a $2 billion valuation, has also been working with corporate partners to expand access to its Calm Business program, through which 10 million workers now have free access to the app as a mental-health benefit. “We’re in the middle of a global mental-health crisis,” says communications director Alexia Marchetti, “so Calm is focused on helping … as many people as possible.” _A weekly newsletter featuring conversations with the world’s top CEOs, managers, and founders._ [_Join the Leadership Brief_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=leadership&source=100companies "undefined") Calm Is one of the 2022 TIME100 Most Influential Companies ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159416/calm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159416/calm/"},"headline":"Calm","datePublished":"2022-03-30T10:23:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:01:17.009Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159416/calm/","keywords":["TIME100 Companies","T100Companies2022","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb25f1aa046012a20/698a3027b21a9c852c505d88/T100-Companies-L-Calm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mariah Espada","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mariah-espada/"}],"creator":"Mariah Espada","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb25f1aa046012a20/698a3027b21a9c852c505d88/T100-Companies-L-Calm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159416/calm/","name":"Calm"}}]}] ```