Alexi Robichaux
Alexi Robichaux is co-founder and CEO of BetterUpBetterUpBetterUp is a U.S. coaching and workforce development platform founded in 2013 that provides human and AI coaching to employees of client organizations; it was valued at $4.7 billion after its 2021 Series E.Open the full entry, a coaching and workforce development platform, and was previously a director of product management at VMware.
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Key facts
Early Life: Programming, Peer Coaching and College
Alexi Robichaux has been interested in coding and peer-to-peer coaching since high school; he taught himself web programming with his younger brother and helped start an organization that would become Youth Leadership America.[1]
He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California (USC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, planned by a group led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney and opened to students in 1880.Open the full entry with a B.A. in political science and non-profit management.[2]
Early Career: Socialcast and VMware
After college Robichaux went to Silicon Valley and joined his first start-up, Socialcast; after VMware acquired it, he became a young executive at VMware at around 26.[1][3]
He was director of product management at VMware, leading product and design teams building enterprise collaboration software.[2]
He recalled that he “got extremely burnt out” during VMware’s 18-month integration work, after which he joined a Y Combinator company and went through Y Combinator.[1]
2013Co-founding BetterUp
Robichaux has said that his own search for help after burning out was the seed of the idea for BetterUp; he brought in Eduardo (Eddie) Medina, a USC classmate who had built a nonprofit with him, as co-founder.[1][4]
BetterUp launched in 2013 with help from friends, family and a few angel investors. He recalled that the early work “went nowhere for two years.”[3][1]
In 2021 he said that as a young executive at a Fortune 500 company, “I wasn’t managing my own psychology in the best way.”[3]
October 8, 2021Series E
On October 8, 2021, BetterUp announced a $300 million Series E at a $4.7 billion valuation. Robichaux said: “We are in the midst of the great global awakening surrounding hybrid work, mental health and well-being.”[5]
January 2025Launching AI Coaching
In January 2025 BetterUp launched AI coaching, which Robichaux described as “scaling coaching to meet every employee where they are.”[6]
Recognition and Writing
Robichaux was named to the Forbes Future of Work 50 list and contributes to Harvard Business Review and Entrepreneur.[2]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
BetterUp: Official website: https://www.betterup.com/ (opens in a new window).[4]
X: Public account: https://x.com/Arobichaux (opens in a new window).[2]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexirobichaux/ (opens in a new window).[2]
Sources
- The Beginnings of BetterUp (opens in a new window)
- Alexi Robichaux (opens in a new window)
- BetterUp CEO — and Prince Harry’s New Boss — on Launching a Coaching Start-Up: ‘I Wasn’t Managing My Own Psychology’ (opens in a new window)
- About Us (opens in a new window)
- BetterUp™ Raises $300 Million Series E at $4.7 Billion Valuation, Making the Company the Largest Mental Health and Coaching Startup in the World (opens in a new window)
- BetterUp Launches AI Coaching (opens in a new window)