Alon Matas.

Alon Matas is the Founder of BetterHelp, the largest online therapy platform in the world, connecting millions of clients with over 30,000 licensed therapists.

Matas founded BetterHelp in 2013 based on his personal experience struggling to access therapy due to cost, stigma, and scheduling barriers. The platform offers text messaging, phone, and video therapy sessions, making mental healthcare dramatically more accessible than traditional in-person therapy. BetterHelp was acquired by publicly traded Teladoc Health in 2015 and has grown to generate over $1 billion in annual revenue. The company has matched millions of people with therapists and played a particularly critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic when demand for mental health services surged. BetterHelp has been praised for expanding access to mental healthcare but has also faced scrutiny over its marketing practices and data privacy. Matas's original vision-that technology could break down the traditional barriers to mental health care-has proven fundamentally correct and has been widely imitated across the digital mental health category. His creation of the world's largest online therapy platform represents one of the most significant contributions to mental health access in American history.