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Sunny

Meaningful connection in a modern world

Meet Sunny

Meaningful connection in a modern world

What if your only connection to the world was a screen? Would that be enough?

In a digital age that’s lonelier than ever, Sunny helps you focus your energy and actions to fuel meaningful connection. Our free mobile app offers simple, science-backed tools to unlock a more socially fulfilled life, while our workplace offering reignites team connection and vibrancy from the inside out. Sunny’s unique purpose-over-profit model means we reinvest every dollar into expanding our reach and impact.

Sunny’s approach

Nonprofit

Privately funded organization committed to our mission. Free consumer app. No ads. Full data privacy.

Expert-designed

Category experts and scientists in social well-being, human connection, and behavioral change.

Research-backed

Deeply researched, Sunny’s actionable tools and simple steps help build and strengthen meaningful connection.

Meet the team leading Sunny

Dan Barnes

Founder

Betsy Parker

Chief Executive Officer

Ros Bernstein

Chief Product Officer

Emily Sanford

Chief Marketing Officer

Jen Lipsey

Chief Growth Officer

Nicholas Head

Head of Content

Dr. Iain Smith

Head of Behavioral Science

Board of Directors

Dan Barnes

Barnes Family Foundation

Walter “Buck” Buckley

Seminal Capital Holdings

Rita DiPalma

MiCa Marketing, Inc.

Todd Sandler

CRED Technologies

Bryan C. Skarlatos

Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP

Science Advisors

Amy Vest

Steven Crane