Romi Gubes is the co-founder and CEO of Sensi.AI, an Austin-based company that turns ambient audio into around-the-clock care intelligence for seniors aging at home. A former Fortune 500 software engineer, she started the company in 2019 after a personal experience with vulnerability in care redirected her career toward protecting people who can't advocate for themselves. Under her leadership Sensi has raised more than $98 million, grown revenue 400% in a year, and expanded into what she describes as an AI operating system for senior care.
Cariloop is a Dallas-area health and wellness company that helps working caregivers manage the demands of caring for children, aging parents, and other loved ones. Sold to employers as a benefit, its Caregiver Support Platform pairs each family with a dedicated, licensed Care Coach and a secure portal for storing documents, finding and booking care providers, and navigating medical, financial, and legal questions. Founded in 2012 by Michael Walsh and Steven Theesfeld, the company has supported more than 300,000 families and raised roughly $43 million across seed through Series C rounds.
Neuroglee Health is a Boston-based digital health company building value-based, at-home dementia and cognitive care. It pairs a virtual interdisciplinary clinical team - advanced practice nurses, social workers, pharmacists and care navigators supervised by neurologists and geriatric psychiatrists - with evidence-based digital therapeutics to support patients with mild cognitive impairment through late-stage dementia and their care partners. Founded in 2020 by Aniket Singh Rajput, the company works with Mayo Clinic on its Neuroglee Connect platform and participates in the CMS GUIDE Model to deliver comprehensive, longitudinal dementia care to Medicare beneficiaries at no cost to families.
Avenidas is a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that has helped older adults on the mid-Peninsula stay active, connected and independent since 1969. From its flagship enrichment center at 450 Bryant Street, plus the Rose Kleiner adult day health center in Mountain View, it runs fitness, arts and lifelong-learning classes, door-to-door transportation, caregiver support, the Avenidas Village aging-in-place membership, a Chinese Community Center and an LGBTQ Rainbow Collective - serving thousands of seniors and their families each year.
Reframe Financial is a Los Angeles-based insurtech building digital-first insurance for the messy middle of life - the years when millennials and Gen Xers are raising kids and starting to care for aging parents. Its flagship product, Reframe LifeStage, bundles Indexed Universal Life insurance with cash value and long-term care benefits into a single policy that evolves across three life stages, sold through employers and associations with online underwriting that skips the lab tests and interviews.
Triple W USA makes DFree, the first wearable ultrasound sensor that predicts when you need to use the bathroom. The matchbox-sized device sits on the lower abdomen, tracks bladder fullness in real time, and sends an alert to a phone or tablet before it is too late. Founded by Atsushi Nakanishi in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, the company sells to individuals, caregivers, and senior care facilities under the banner of dignity and independent living - 'diaper-free.'
Sarah Wood is a Senior Executive Business Partner at GoFundMe and the founder of Easy Living Collective, a household management company supporting working women and caregivers. A 15-year veteran of Google across roles in learning & development, program management, people operations, and Google.org, she brings operational depth and a people-first philosophy to everything she touches. Based in Los Angeles, she has been instrumental in GoFundMe's partnerships supporting women-owned businesses recovering from the 2025 LA wildfires.