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The Startup That Turned Grandma's TV Into a Caregiver
A failed universal-remote company rebuilt itself around one uncomfortable truth: the hardest part of caring for aging parents is the 300-mile drive to fix their TV. JubileeTV turns that TV into the caregiving hub instead.
The Toy Guys Who Sold 750,000 Robot Cats to Fight Loneliness
A former Hasbro team took a $60-to-$180 robotic cat, aimed it at grandparents instead of grandkids, and turned play into a public-health tool. State agencies now hand the pets out by the thousands.
The Neurology Clinic That Comes Home
Synapticure was built by a patient and a caregiver who discovered that a diagnosis can arrive long before a workable care plan. Its answer is a nationwide virtual clinic that treats the household - not just the chart.
The 137-Year-Old Care Company Building a Home for Every Stage of Ageing
Montefiore began with one communal home in 1889. Today it is trying to solve a more modern problem: how to let people change the level of support they receive without losing the routines, relationships and dignity that make life feel like their own.
Coro Health
Coro Health is an Austin-based healthcare technology company that delivers clinically proven therapeutic music and multi-faith spiritual programming through a fully licensed streaming service built specifically for care settings. Its flagship MusicFirst platform uses a patented Music Prescription Builder - designed by music therapists, neuroscientists, and music designers - to generate individualized programs shown in peer-reviewed trials to reduce depression and agitation in dementia and long-term care residents. The company also offers FaithFirst multi-faith content and EnrichFirst entertainment, reaching more than a million annual users across thousands of senior living communities and hospitals in the U.S. and Canada.
Neuroglee Health
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.
Ceresti Health
Ceresti Health is a Carlsbad, California digital-health company that turns family caregivers into the front line of dementia care. Through a cell-enabled tablet, weekly one-on-one coaching from a personal care navigator, and claims-driven predictive analytics, Ceresti helps spouses and adult children spot the small changes - a urinary tract infection, a missed medication - that otherwise snowball into costly hospitalizations. The company sells to Medicare Advantage plans, ACOs, and providers operating under the CMS GUIDE payment model, and backs its program with a documented cost-savings guarantee: more than 50% fewer avoidable hospitalizations and roughly $6,800 in medical savings per enrolled patient per year.
Sensay
Sensay builds lifelike AI 'digital replicas' that capture a person's or organization's voice, style and knowledge, then deploy that persona as a chatbot, support agent, tutor or companion. Founded by philosopher-turned-entrepreneur Dan Thomson in 2023, the company started with dementia and memory-care use cases - giving families a way to preserve a loved one's stories - and has grown into a broader knowledge-capture platform spanning enterprise offboarding, customer support, education and community management. Sensay pairs its AI engine with the $SNSY crypto token and pitches itself as a route toward 'digital immortality.'
Tuktu Care Inc.
Tuktu Care is a Canadian agetech marketplace that uses an AI-driven matching algorithm to pair seniors and families with vetted local companions and service providers. Founded in Vancouver in 2022 after founder Rustam Sengupta's father was diagnosed with dementia, the on-demand platform covers everything from companionship and transportation to housekeeping, overnight care, and post-hospital recovery - typically at 30-40% less than the cost of traditional agencies. A Techstars Future of Longevity company, Tuktu has served 6,000+ customers and built a network of 300+ care providers across Canada, and in March 2026 expanded into the United States with a statewide launch in Vermont.
Agemark Senior Living
Agemark Senior Living is a family-owned operator of senior living communities founded in 1983 by real estate partners Richard Westin and Jesse Pittore. From a single converted hotel in Vancouver, Washington, the company has grown to own or manage 28 communities across six states, offering independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing. Guided by its in-house LifeCycles wellness philosophy, Agemark aims to reframe aging and end-of-life as stages to be celebrated, and has been certified a Great Place to Work for seven consecutive years.
Bristol Hospice
Bristol Hospice is a Salt Lake City-based provider of hospice and palliative care that has grown from a single Utah location in 2006 into a national operator running roughly 78-80 locations across 25 states. Backed by private equity firm Webster Equity Partners, it offers adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, and specialty comfort programs for dementia, respiratory disease, sleep, and veterans, with a mission centered on compassion, respect, and 'a reverence for life.'
SafelyYou
SafelyYou is a San Francisco-based AI company that uses unobtrusive in-room sensors and computer vision to detect, respond to, and help prevent falls among residents in senior living and memory care communities. Spun out of UC Berkeley's AI Research Lab in 2015 by founder and CEO George Netscher, the platform pairs 24/7 monitoring with clinical consultation to reduce falls, ER visits, and operating costs while keeping older adults safer in place.