This year, TIME editors launch the TIME100 Companies: Industry Leaders lists, an expansion of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies issue that dives deeper into 20 sectors to look at the companies shaping their industries. These are the 10 most influential companies in wellness of 2026.

Loop Earplugs

Destigmatizing sensory needs 

Loop has helped turn earplugs from niche gear into an everyday wellness accessory. In 2025, the Belgian company deepened partnerships with Coachella and Tomorrowland, became an official partner of McLaren Racing, and expanded into Target, its first major physical retail presence. Its lineup now stretches well beyond hearing protection for concerts, with a soft Dream model for sleep and the Switch 2, which lets users toggle among three listening modes. Loop says it has now sold more than 20 million earplugs globally. Much of that expansion has been driven by customers dealing with sensory overload, including people with ADHD, autism, and other forms of hypersensitivity. “The spectrum of hypersensitivity and neurodivergence is so huge,” says cofounder Dimitri O. “But if there’s one thing they have in common, they all testify how immensely impactful the acceptance of wearing filters in their ears is on the quality of their life.” Loop’s bigger achievement may be cultural: making sensory needs look less like a noticeable apparatus and more like a fashion accessory. —Alison Van Houten

The Picklr

Pickleball’s powerhouse

When The Picklr co-founder and CEO Jorge Barragan started playing pickleball in 2016, people made fun of him for it. Today his company—a chain of indoor pickleball-only clubs—has 68 open locations and close to 500 sold in the U.S. and internationally. In March, The Picklr added Grand Slam doubles champion Nick Kyrgios as an equity partner and brand ambassador, another sign of the sport's global ambitions. Pickleball remains the fastest-growing sport in America, with nearly 23% year-over-year participation growth and 24.3 million players. What began as a niche hobby associated with older demographics is increasingly popular among younger players—the average age is just shy of 35, and the 18-to-24 cohort is the fastest-rising segment. The Picklr is building the infrastructure to match, with youth academies and development tracks for players as young as eight. "The Picklr is your home for pickleball," says Barragan, "but it's going to be the home where we create future collegiate athletes and pros—and hopefully Olympians." —Ashley Mateo

Technogym

Connecting fitness

The Milano-Cortina Olympics marked Technogym’s 10th consecutive Games as official supplier, with about 1,000 pieces of gym equipment deployed across 22 athlete training centers for more than 3,500 competitors. The showpiece was Technogym Checkup, an AI-based assessment station that measures body composition, strength, balance, mobility, and cognitive abilities in minutes, then uses that data to tailor workout plans. Technogym, founded in 1983, has long aimed to bring elite-caliber training tools to everyday users, and Checkup reflects the company’s more recent effort to position fitness as part of a more preventive, data-driven approach to health. Whether someone is training for gold or navigating weight loss or back pain,”founder and CEO Nerio Alessandri says, the system is designed to meet them where they are. That goal also drives RUN X, Technogym’s new partnership with World Athletics and the first World Treadmill Championship. The certified virtual 5K lets runners compete on connected Technogym machines at local gyms around the world, with real-time rankings feeding into regional qualifiers and a live final in Italy for the top 10 men and top 10 women. "You can run your preliminary race in your neighborhood gym," says Alessandri, "then run with the champions in Italy." —Ashley Mateo

Thorne

Transparency in supplements

In a largely unregulated industry rife with snake oil, Thorne makes and sells clinically supported, filler- and excipient-free nutritional supplements, quadruply tested for purity and quality. "Realistically, if people can resolve whatever their health issues are straight from food? Better way to do it," says CEO Colin Watts. But eating well enough to fully satisfy nutritional needs is often easier said than done, especially for people who are older or have certain medical conditions. Some supplements can also provide concentrations higher than diet alone—creatine, for example, has shown emerging cognitive benefits at doses difficult to get from food. Thorne added 28 products to its catalog and surpassed $1 billion in retail sales in 2025, doubling its revenue and tripling profitability—significant growth for a 42-year-old company that has cemented itself as a leader in the shift toward evidence-based supplementation. —Alison Van Houten

Spring Health

Accessible mental-health care 

When Spring Health launched in 2016, virtual therapy had not yet gone mainstream and most employers were still treating mental health as a secondary benefit. Founded by April Koh and Adam Chekroud, the company built an employer-focused platform that connects patients to therapy, coaching, medication management, and other mental-health services, both online and in person. Now it is growing beyond the workplace. In January, Spring Health announced an agreement to acquire Alma, whose platform helps independent mental-health clinicians build in-network practices. The deal, expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, would give Spring a far larger provider infrastructure—Alma has a network of 26,000 clinicians—and further its goal of becoming a lifelong mental health platform designed to keep patients connected to care even as jobs, insurance coverage, and clinical needs change. —Amrita Khalid

Sesame Workshop

Resiliency role model

As the youth mental-health crisis has intensified, Sesame Workshop has been giving young children language for big feelings by way of one especially trusted guide: Elmo. The 57-year-old nonprofit behind Sesame Street has made emotional literacy central to its flagship programming, weaving research-backed lessons on anxiety, self-regulation, and resilience into the world-famous children’s show while offering free online resources for families on grief, loss, and parental addiction. In Sesame’s classroom research, children who watched recent episodes showed measurable gains in emotional skills, and teachers reported reduced aggression between students. “Children have a lot of big feelings, and that’s okay,” says CEO Sherrie Westin. “But if they can’t identify the emotion they’re feeling, it’s much harder to regulate it.” After losing its Max (now HBO Max) distribution deal in 2024 and being hit by federal funding cuts in 2025, the organization reduced its staff by about 20%, but it has since rebounded with a new Netflix deal, a renewed PBS KIDS partnership, and an expanded YouTube partnership that is making a large library of Sesame Street content, including more than 100 classic episodes, available for free on the platform. Sesame Street now reaches 340 million households in 190 countries. “From a mission standpoint, you have to reach to teach,” Westin says. —Alex Stone

Culina Health 

Access to registered dietitians

Just 1 in 500 Americans have seen a registered dietitian, even though millions have nutrition-linked chronic conditions. In-network with most major U.S. insurance plans, Culina Health virtually connects patients of all ages with registered dietitians (RDs), no referrals needed. Three-quarters of patients pay nothing out of pocket, and the average copay with insurance is $33 per visit—about 60% less than competitors. "People just don't know that this is something you can get," says CEO and cofounder Vanessa Rissetto. The rapidly growing company says its patients show 50% greater reduction in diabetes markers, weight, and LDL cholesterol—a major predictor of heart attacks and strokes—than published clinical benchmarks. One reason: unlike most dietitian practices, which rely on contractors, Culina's RDs are employees, giving the company tighter control over the standard of care. "Our dietitians, for the most part, have worked in major hospitals,” says Rissetto, “and when you work in major hospitals where medicine is happening, then you're able to deliver care better and faster." —Alison Van Houten

ClassPass

All things self-care

ClassPass built its reputation as the app for people who want pilates one day, spinning the next, and yoga after that. But the fitness booking platform has evolved beyond the gym, partnering with thousands of salons, spas, and services to meet a broader definition of wellness. The strategy is working: the company says sign-ups for a higher-tier plan that includes both fitness and wellness grew 90% in 2025. A new creative activities category, launched in 2026, lets members use credits on group painting classes and other experiences. CEO Fritz Lanman frames the diversification as an engagement strategy. "People may go through periods where they're less focused on working out, but if they can still use ClassPass for recovery, beauty, social experiences, or other parts of their routine, we stay relevant," he says. That broader vision got a boost in March, when ClassPass parent company Playlist—which also owns booking platforms Mindbody and Booker—announced a merger with fitness-tech firm EGYM in a deal that values the combined entity at $7.5 billion. Lanman says the new company will bring software, connected hardware, consumer booking, and workplace wellness onto one global platform. —Amrita Khalid

Noom

From diet app to health platform

Up to two-thirds of people who start GLP-1 drugs for weight-loss quit within a year because of side effects, cost, or both, according to a 2025 study by Northwestern Medicine. New York-based Noom thinks it has a fix. In August 2025, the company known for its psychology-driven diet app launched a microdose GLP-1 program that pairs clinician-prescribed doses at 25% or less of the standard level with its behavior-change coaching platform. The logic: lower doses mean fewer side effects and lower costs, while the coaching keeps habits in place for more sustainable weight management. "GLP-1s may spark the change," says CEO Geoff Cook, "but mindset makes it last." According to company data, members who engaged most with the app lost 25% more weight over 40 weeks than less-engaged users. Over the past year, Noom has also expanded into managing hormone replacement therapy, diabetes treatment, and preventive health—further proof that Noom is determined to reinvent itself as a comprehensive wellness platform. "Our mission is to help people add a full decade of healthy living to their lives," says Cook —Joe Mullich

Lululemon

Supporting grassroots wellness at scale

Lululemon surpassed $11 billion in annual revenue last year, with more than 800 stores across the globe—and the Vancouver-based athletic apparel company is directing a significant share of that scale toward social impact. Last year, its Centre for Social Impact hit its goal of connecting 10 million people with mental health and physical activity programming. In September, it announced a successor initiative, Lululemon Gives, which intends to double that number by 2030 through $100 million in funding to organizations ranging from UNICEF to hyperlocal grassroots groups across the globe. (Smaller organizations receive development support in addition to funding; a fellowship matches Lululemon employees with partner groups to work on projects tailored to the employees' expertise.) In March 2026, Lululemon Gives announced its first cohort of 80 Wellbeing Grant awardees, who received a total of $3 million. "This last year has been volatile for so many people and for so many organizations," says Anne Wintroub, head of social impact and engagement. "We can and should be doing the most with the resources that we have." —Alison Van Houten

 Correction, April 30

The original version of this story misstated Lululemon's revenue and number of stores. The company had $11 billion in revenue last year, not $10 billion; and it has more than 800 stores, not 767.