Rocapine Raises $13M Series A to Build a New Generation of Wellness Apps and Improve 40 Million Lives

The average person will spend 15 years of their life on a smartphone designed to hook them, roughly 5h16 per day according to DataReportal 2025 data. Rocapine is building wellness apps designed to do the opposite: not to maximise screen time, but to help people build healthier habits in their daily lives. Today, the Paris-based wellness venture studio announced a $13 million Series A led by Educapital, with participation from Daphni, Ring Capital and Centre Court Capital, alongside Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve (Alan) and founders from leading consumer apps such as Opal and Yubo. The round follows $6M ARR in nine months from launch and over 2.5 million downloads, with 70% of revenue coming from the US. The business aims to tangibly improve the lives of at least 40 million people in the next five years.

A generation drained by its smartphone

For 70 years, technology made us smarter. The Flynn Effect lifted IQ generation after generation. Now it’s reversed. ADHD diagnoses in US children have doubled since the 1990s. Oxford named “brain rot” 2024’s Word of the Year.

“Technology was supposed to make us smarter, healthier and more connected,” says Stanislas Marchand, co-founder and CEO of Rocapine. “Instead, too much of it has become addictive, extractive and exhausting. Our phones now track the stress, the sleep loss and the racing heart rates they ironically cause, and still the system pushes us to scroll more. Rocapine was founded to change that.”

Founded in late 2024 by Stanislas Marchand (former Voodoo, mobile gaming unicorn), Jean-Gabriel Boinot-Tramoni and Sammy Teillet, the Paris-based studio crafts wellness apps designed to “hold instead of hook”, earning a place in daily routines because they support users and deliver real value, not because they engineer compulsion and monetize attention.

Rocapine has already achieved five hits across women’s health, addiction therapy and nutrition, with apps including Harmony, dedicated to cycle tracking and women’s wellbeing; That Girl, which helps build better daily habits; and Unchaind, which helps users break free from compulsive behaviours.

The market opportunity in the sector is significant. Non-gaming app revenue surpassed mobile gaming for the first time in 2025 at $86B globally according to data from Sensor Tower, with wellness being one of the fastest-growing segments, driven primarily by rising demand from younger generations.

Alexandre Glaser, Investment Director at Educapital: “Rocapine is one of the most compelling stories we have seen in European consumer tech. In less than a year, the team has done what most studios take years to attempt: build multiple hits, crack distribution and generate real revenue at speed. What strikes us most is their rare combination of product instinct and execution velocity.”

“The best consumer products earn trust by improving people’s lives” says Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, co-founder and CEO of Alan, and early investor in Rocapine. “That’s exactly what Rocapine does, using AI to craft deeply personalized wellness apps and scale them faster than anyone in the space. They’ve built multiple hits in under a year while staying true to a mission that matters.”

The model: test many, craft few, scale fast

Rocapine is pioneering a new approach to consumer wellness apps with a high-velocity publisher model. The thesis is simple. The same growth playbook that built mobile gaming, fast iteration, AI-native development and performance marketing, can be turned in the opposite direction. Instead of optimizing for time-on-screen, optimize for time well spent. Instead of hijacking attention, earn it.

Rather than focusing on a single app like most players, Rocapine tests hundreds of concepts per year, often partnering with independent developers. When a concept resonates with users, the team is able to craft a strong personalized wellness app and scale it in record time, powered by its AI-native tech stack.

The early results from this formula played a key role in attracting investors, with one of its apps reaching $1M ARR just 16 days after launch. The new funding will help Rocapine turn its early hits into category leaders, scale the testing engine to 400 apps this year, and reinforce the AI, data and marketing infrastructure behind the portfolio.

Paul Bazin, Partner at Daphni: “People are waking up to what their screens are costing them, and they want tools that serve them, not exploit them. In just 18 months, Rocapine has built one of the most powerful AI engines for shipping high-quality apps at record speed, with a model that gets smarter with every test. The next generation of category leaders in wellness will come from them.”

Backed by founders from health and consumer apps

The round was led by Educapital, with participation from Daphni (which led Rocapine’s Seed end-2024), Ring Capital, Centre Court Capital, Athletico Ventures and Better Angle.

Rocapine is backed by founders and leaders from health, consumer apps and mobile gaming. These include Jean-Charles Samuelian (Alan), Sacha Lazimi, Marc-Antoine Durand and Jérémie Aouate (Yubo), Xavier Mariani (Adikteev), Kenneth Schlenker (Opal), Francescu Santoni (Mojo), Benedict Kurz (Knowunity), Olivier Lemarié (Photoroom), Maxime Demeure (Madbox), Maud Pasturaud (Menoclinic, Bumble), Naveen Mewani (Homa) and Sebastien Borget (The Sandbox).

Rocapine is also backed by entrepreneurs from various backgrounds such as Thibaud Elzière, Amaury Sépulchre and Quentin Nickmans (Hexa), Julien Romanetto (Arianee), Gary Anssen (Alltricks), Justine Hutteau (Respire), Will Mahon (Outpost).