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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 Danish startup teaching a ceiling sensor to watch grandma - so nurses don't have to
Teton wraps a camera in enough AI that it never has to save a single frame of video - and uses it to cut falls in elder care by up to 82%. Now it is betting American nursing homes will pay for a night nurse that never blinks.
Sensi.AI
Sensi.AI is a care intelligence company that uses ambient audio and AI to give home care agencies continuous visibility into the physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being of seniors aging at home. Founded in 2018 by Romi Gubes, Nevo Elmalem, and Alon Brener, the company deploys a discreet in-home audio device paired with an agentic platform that detects care anomalies, predicts risks, and recommends actions - aiming to close the visibility gap during the many hours seniors spend unsupervised. Sensi is trusted by roughly 80% of the largest home care networks in North America and has raised more than $98 million to date, including a $45 million Series C in October 2025.
August Health
August Health is the modern EHR and operations platform purpose-built for senior living communities. Founded in 2020 by physician Justin Schram and former Apple engineering leader Erez Cohen, it replaces clipboard-and-fax workflows with mobile-first software for care, compliance, billing, and AI-assisted insight - now used across thousands of assisted-living communities in the US and Canada.
Michael Zawadski
Michael Zawadski is a healthcare technology executive who led RTZ Systems for over a decade before stepping up as founding CEO of Collabrios Health - a 2024 platform merger that unified electronic health records, financial TPA services, and care coordination tools for over 125 PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) programs nationwide. A JD-trained operator with an uncommon blend of legal, financial, and health-tech instincts, he oversaw the assembly of a company serving more than one million individuals in community-based care.