Aepsy, a Zurich startup that connects people with psychologists, acquired Kinastic, a Zurich company that runs digital health promotion programmes for employers. Startupticker published the announcement on 18 August 2026.
The parties did not disclose any financial details of the transaction. Startupticker described the deal as an exit for Kinastic's founding team and investors.
Kinastic's offering will be integrated into the Aepsy platform over the coming months, developed further there and later run under the Aepsy brand. Kinastic's employees will join Aepsy's team, which numbered 35 people before the deal.
What Kinastic built
Kinastic was founded in Zurich in 2016 and focuses on workplace health promotion. Through an app and a planning tool for human resources teams, it gives companies a year-round programme of content on exercise, nutrition and mental fitness, delivered as campaigns, webinars and workshops.
The company works with about 100 corporate clients. Aepsy described it as Switzerland's market leader in workplace health promotion and said it was known for requiring little planning effort from employers. Startupticker lists Kinastic as a Venture Kick winner.
Kinastic's founder and chief executive, Michael Kubli, said the company had shown with its clients that workplace health promotion can be simple and effective, and that anything beyond prevention belonged in the hands of specialists.
“Mit Kinastic kommt der Schweizer Marktführer für betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung zu Aepsy, und wir setzen den Standard für ein ganzheitliches Gesundheitsangebot am Arbeitsplatz.”
Why Aepsy is buying
Aepsy was founded in 2020. Its platform lists more than 400 psychologists and offers psychological support to private clients and through employers, and the company says a session starts on the platform every five minutes. It reaches companies partly through insurers such as Helsana and works with employers including the cantonal hospital of Graubünden and the lift maker Schindler.
The acquisition adds prevention to that offering. Aepsy said partner companies will be able to buy psychological support and health promotion from one provider on one platform. Founder and chief executive Nicolas Egger said the combination would give corporate customers a single offering that treats prevention and intervention together.
With Kinastic's clients, Aepsy said it will look after more than 150 partner companies in Switzerland.
Old partners, now one company
The two companies have known each other since Aepsy started. Kinastic was among the first partners on the Aepsy platform, and the deal turns that early cooperation into a single business, according to the announcement.
Aepsy has outside backing of its own. SwissHealth Ventures, the venture arm of Swiss health insurer CSS, invested in Aepsy in September 2024, according to the insurer. The amount was not disclosed, and Aepsy did not say how it financed the purchase of Kinastic.
What happens to customers
In a notice on its own website, Kinastic told clients that their annual health plan stays in place and that nothing is required of them for now. Its programme of campaigns, webinars and workshops on exercise, nutrition, ergonomics and mental fitness continues in several languages, and clients keep the contact people they already know.
What changes is the scope. Kinastic said its clients' employees will gain access to the more than 400 psychologists on the Aepsy platform, in more than 20 languages and with almost no waiting time. A multi-step matching process directs employees to a suitable professional, and booking and administration run in the same place.
Kinastic also said the two kinds of service will stay separate. Its mental fitness content counts as prevention and makes no therapeutic claims, while any professional assessment will come from a qualified psychologist.
Over the coming months, the Kinastic offering will move step by step to the Aepsy platform and the Kinastic brand will be absorbed into Aepsy. The company said it would announce each step in advance and explain what it means for clients. The announcement did not set a date for retiring the Kinastic name.
Kinastic's investors were not named in the announcement, and neither company gave revenue figures or said how many people Kinastic employs.
