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Tanner Thompson Is Making the Humble Staff Schedule Tell the Truth
At Covr, the Utah founder is turning whiteboards, payroll fragments and last-minute staffing calls into an operating system for long-term care - one small decision, one visible number and one reclaimed hour at a time.
Ted LeNeave Turned the Org Chart Upside Down - Then Built Accura Around It
A Virginia administrator came to Iowa with a family, a founder's itch and one stubborn diagram: put residents and frontline staff at the top. A decade later, that upside-down chart remains a compact explanation of how Ted LeNeave wants Accura to work.
The 61,000-Square-Kilometre Health Network Betting That Rural Care Should Grow Its Own Talent
Interlake-Eastern RHA cannot shrink Manitoba's distances. So it is changing who gets trained, where specialists show up and how patients enter the system - a practical rural-health playbook with visible gains and stubborn limits.
Manulife Is Turning a 139-Year-Old Insurer Into a Health-and-Wealth Operating System
The Canadian insurer spent years untangling yesterday's promises. Now it is betting that the same customer needs protection, investing, banking and help living longer - and that one global balance sheet can serve them all.
Covr Is Turning the Nursing-Home Schedule Into a Control Room
Long-term care still runs on whiteboards, spreadsheets and frantic texts. Covr built a scheduling-and-analytics suite for the operators who want to catch overtime, empty shifts and compliance trouble before they reach the residents - or the P&L.
Accura HealthCare Flipped the Org Chart - Then Built a 50-Community Care Network
The Iowa operator put residents and direct-care staff at the top, renamed headquarters the Resource Center, and scaled across four states. Its decade offers a practical playbook - and a warning - for anyone trying to grow a local service without sanding away the local part.
The Nursing-Home Healthcare Company That Put the Clinic on Wheels
Aria Care Partners built a national business by taking four easily neglected specialties to residents who are difficult to transport. The clever bit is not the van - it is the paperwork, insurance, scheduling, and follow-up wrapped around the visit.
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.
The Life Insurer That Would Rather You Stay Alive
At 164, John Hancock is recasting the oldest bargain in insurance: instead of waiting to pay after death, it rewards customers for living better now. The experiment links life insurance to wearables, cancer screening, longevity research and a growing stack of health technology.
CNO Financial Group
The middle of the market that Wall Street forgot has a $4.5-billion insurer built entirely around it - one careful policy, and one kitchen-table conversation, at a time.
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.
Clearpol Inc.
Clearpol is a San Francisco healthtech company that builds AI tools for post-acute and long-term care providers. Its platform reads a facility's clinical data and regulatory environment, then automates the paperwork nobody likes: drafting CMS Form 2567 Plans of Correction, flagging resident risk before it escalates, and answering questions about federal and state nursing-home regulations. Positioned as a compliance 'co-pilot' for skilled nursing facilities, Clearpol says it is trusted by 900+ long-term care facilities and has written thousands of Plans of Correction.
Reframe Financial
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.
Toi Labs
Toi Labs makes TrueLoo, an AI-powered smart toilet seat that turns every flush into passive health data. It fits on an existing toilet, optically scans stool and urine (never body parts), and flags concerning changes - blood, cloudy urine, loose stool, or 72 hours without a bowel movement - so care staff at senior living communities can follow up faster. Founded in San Francisco by serial healthcare entrepreneur Vik Kashyap, the company was named a TIME Best Invention of 2024 and is deployed across more than 300 senior care communities in North America.
Waterlily
Waterlily is a San Francisco-based startup that uses AI and more than 500 million data points to predict when and how a person will need long-term care, what it will cost, and how to pay for it. Built primarily for financial advisors and insurance carriers, its software turns one of retirement planning's most avoided questions into a concrete, personalized plan - from care projections to matching families with optimal long-term care insurance policies in under a second.
Karan Aneja
Karan Aneja is the co-founder and CEO of Reframe Financial, a Los Angeles insurtech building digital-first hybrid insurance products that combine indexed universal life with long-term care benefits. A serial entrepreneur and UC Berkeley alum, he previously co-founded Portea Medical (Southeast Asia's largest home healthcare company) and Vetted PetCare (a venture-backed in-home veterinary service). His pattern: build companies that bring professional care into living rooms.
Lily Vittayarukskul
Lily Vittayarukskul is the co-founder and CEO of Waterlily, a San Francisco AI company that predicts when a person will need long-term care, for how long, and what it will cost - then helps families figure out how to pay for it. A child prodigy who started college at 14 and interned at NASA by 16, she pivoted from aerospace engineering to healthcare after her aunt's terminal cancer diagnosis exposed how unprepared most families are for the cost of caregiving. Waterlily runs more than 500 million data points through proprietary AI models, has raised roughly $10 million from investors including Genworth, Nationwide and Edward Jones Ventures, and landed Lily on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Arash Jafari
Arash Jafari is the CEO and co-founder of Clearpol, a San Francisco healthtech company that builds AI to help post-acute and long-term care providers manage regulatory compliance and clinical risk. A former NASA JPL and Langley engineer, he traded interplanetary robotics simulations and severe-weather prediction for one of healthcare's least glamorous frontiers: the survey deficiency. Clearpol's AI now acts as a 'co-pilot' for skilled nursing facilities, drafting Plans of Correction, monitoring clinical data, and flagging regulatory risk before it escalates - trusted by 900+ facilities, with 3,000+ Plans of Correction written.