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Brookdale Is Building a Small City for Every Stage of Aging
The country's largest senior-living operator is trying to make one hard transition feel less like a handoff and more like a life that can keep unfolding - with care, community and clinical coordination under one roof.
MochaCare
MochaCare is a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch that runs the back office of home care agencies. It pairs AI agents with human operators to handle hiring, scheduling, and client intake end to end, so agency owners can spend less time on operations and more time growing and serving their communities.
Romi Gubes
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
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.
Andromeda Robotics
Andromeda Robotics is a Melbourne-founded, San Francisco-based robotics company building Abi, a colourful humanoid companion robot designed to reduce loneliness in aged care and assisted living. Abi holds conversations in more than 90 languages, remembers residents across visits, and runs group activities, working alongside care teams rather than replacing them. Founded in 2022 by Grace Brown, the company deploys Abi to care homes on a subscription basis and raised a $23M Series A in September 2025 led by Forerunner.
David Werdegar
Dr. David Werdegar, MD, MPH is the former President and CEO of Institute on Aging (IOA), San Francisco's leading nonprofit dedicated to helping older adults and adults with disabilities live with dignity and independence. A physician trained at New York Medical College and UCSF, Werdegar transformed IOA from a community program into a comprehensive elder-care organization serving thousands annually across the San Francisco Bay Area. Under his watch, IOA opened a landmark 50,000-square-foot campus on Geary Boulevard in 2011, consolidating programs spanning home care, dementia day enrichment, and the 24/7 Friendship Line warmline. He retired in 2022 after steering the organization to nearly $100 million in annual revenue with a staff of around 900.
J. Thomas Briody
J. Thomas Briody is the President and CEO of Institute on Aging in San Francisco, a nonprofit serving older adults across the Bay Area and southern California. A third-generation elder care leader, he has spent more than three decades building integrated continuums of care across both for-profit and nonprofit sectors.
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.
True Link
True Link is a San Francisco fintech that builds banking, prepaid cards, and trust-administration tools for people the financial system tends to forget: aging adults, people with disabilities, those in recovery, and the family members and professional fiduciaries who manage their money. Co-founded in 2012 by Kai Stinchcombe and Claire McDonnell after Stinchcombe watched his grandmother lose her savings to telemarketers, the company now serves more than 250,000 families and 300+ nonprofits.
George Netscher
George Netscher is the Founder and CEO of SafelyYou, a San Francisco-based AI company that uses computer vision to prevent falls and elevate dementia care across senior living communities. Netscher launched the company in 2015 as doctoral research at UC Berkeley's AI Research Lab, driven by his family's direct experience with Alzheimer's disease - his grandmother and aunt both had the condition, and his mother cared for them while working as a physician. SafelyYou's ambient sensor platform now serves nearly 1,000 senior living communities, has raised over $134 million in total funding including a $43 million Series C in 2025, and has been shown to reduce falls by 40% and fall-related ER visits by up to 80%. In May 2025, Netscher was elected to the Argentum Board of Directors, the leading national senior living industry association.
Kai Stinchcombe
Kai Stinchcombe is the founder and CEO of True Link Financial, a San Francisco-based fintech company that builds financial tools for vulnerable populations - seniors with dementia, people with disabilities, and individuals in recovery. Inspired by his grandmother Ruth's experience being defrauded by telemarketers while living with Alzheimer's, Kai co-founded True Link in 2012 to give families and caregivers smart, customizable controls over spending. The company has helped over 250,000 families and raised $50M+ including a $35M Series B led by Khosla Ventures. Beyond True Link, Kai is known for his viral, contrarian essays dismantling blockchain hype, and for co-founding the Roosevelt Institution, a progressive student policy think tank that won a MacArthur Award.