About ANI — The Experiential Employee Wellness Platform
At ANI, we believe engaged teams build stronger companies. Our mission is to help organizations attract, retain, and inspire talent by providing access to cultural, sports, and performing arts experiences that enhance well-being, create lasting connections, and foster a vibrant, creative, and collaborative workplace culture.
Why We Built ANI
At Google, our founder watched employees light up over a particular category of perk: access to real experiences. Tickets to events. Museum memberships. Seats at a game. These weren't the benefits that checked a box; they were the ones people actually talked about, planned around, and brought colleagues to.
Then he looked at the other 99% of American employers, the small and mid-market companies that make up the backbone of the economy, and noticed something missing. Those benefits didn't exist for them. Not because their employees wanted them any less. But because no one had built the infrastructure to make it possible.
That gap became ANI.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York City, ANI is a B2B SaaS platform that gives HR teams at companies of any size a turnkey way to offer arts, sports, and wellness experiences as a funded employee benefit. We partner with world-class institutions, the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Shubert Organization, Major League Baseball, Bathhouse, and more, so that any employer can give their team the kind of benefits that used to be reserved for Google and Goldman Sachs.
Not Perks. Connective Experiences.
Most employee benefits platforms are built around discounts, reimbursements, or wellness apps. They're designed for compliance, not connection. Employees ignore them. HR leaders can't point to ROI. And the culture problem they were supposed to solve stays unsolved.
ANI is built differently, around the idea that shared experiences are the most powerful retention and culture tool available to any company. When an employee goes to a Broadway show or a Yankees game because their employer made it possible, that moment creates something a gym membership never will: a memory, a conversation, a reason to stay.
The numbers reflect it. ANI sees utilization rates of 85%+ when corporate funds are activated — compared to the industry average of 30–40% for traditional benefits. And 65% of experiences are booked with a guest, meaning ANI doesn't just benefit individuals. It builds teams.
Where We're Going
The future of employee benefits isn't a bigger menu of things to reimburse. It's a fundamentally different relationship between employers and the cities their teams live in, one where companies invest in their people's lives outside of work because they understand that those lives are what keep great employees engaged, connected, and here.
ANI is building the infrastructure for that future. Starting in New York City, with the richest concentration of cultural, sports, and wellness institutions in the world, and expanding outward, so that any employer, anywhere, can give their team a benefit worth talking about.
Our Values
Our core values create an environment that allows us to work with integrity and achieve results in the right way.
Work Hard
As a team, we work together to expand wellness access and connectivity to the arts.
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Support Our Partners
We believe in working together and providing our partners excellent support and growth opportunities.
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Make Life Better
We make decisions that allow our members to have better and more holistic lives.
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Respect & Inclusivity
Respect is not an option-it is a way of life. We strive to collaborate across all backgrounds to build a strong ecosystem.
Meet the Founder
Emeka started ANI to promote experiential wellness and connect experience providers with companies and employees lacking traditional cultural institution relationships. He is determined to expand access to more employees to promote genuine engagement with and support of the experiential ecosystem over the long term. Emeka has experience in strategy development and execution, operations optimization, technology, finance, and education from working at Google, Deloitte, KIPP, and Teach For America.
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