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Avenidas
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.
Bold
Bold is a Los Angeles-based digital healthy-aging company that delivers personalized, clinically validated exercise, nutrition, and virtual-care programs to older adults. Available at no cost to roughly 12 million Medicare members through partnerships with Medicare Advantage plans and provider groups, Bold treats movement as medicine: its programs have been shown to reduce falls by up to 46%, increase weekly physical activity by 182%, and earn 91% member satisfaction. Founded by Amanda Rees and Hari Arul, the company has raised $27 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and Rethink Impact.
Amanda Rees
Amanda Rees is the co-founder and CEO of Bold, a Los Angeles based digital fitness platform that delivers personalized, science-based exercise programs to help older adults build strength, ease pain, and prevent falls. A Princeton-trained chemical and biological engineer who is also a longtime dance and tai chi instructor, Rees built Bold after spending most of her twenties caring for her grandmother and discovering how few preventive tools existed for aging well. Bold partners with Medicare Advantage plans and has raised about $27 million in total funding, including a $17 million Series A.