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Clarest Health Wants to Follow the Pills Home
Built in nursing-facility pharmacies, Clarest Health is taking medication management to the kitchen counter. Its bet: the prescription matters less if nobody can keep the daily routine straight.
IntusCare Found a $27 Million Wedge in the Spreadsheet Chaos of Senior Care
PACE teams were managing high-stakes care with generic software, stray spreadsheets and manual workarounds. IntusCare turned that unglamorous mess into a focused healthcare software business serving more than 70 organizations nationwide.
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.
Lifespark's $36 Million Bet: Fix Senior Care by Owning the Handoffs
Most senior-care failures happen between appointments, providers, and payment systems. Lifespark spent two decades assembling the pieces under one roof - and now it has to prove that integration can travel beyond Minnesota.
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.
GrandPad Built a Tablet for the People Silicon Valley Forgot - and Found a Business in the Friction
A failed family video call became a contrarian product brief: fewer choices, no passwords and a human on call. GrandPad shows what happens when accessibility is treated as the whole business, not a settings menu.
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.
Humana
How a 1961 nursing-home bet in Louisville became a Medicare Advantage powerhouse - and why Humana is now buying the clinic, the pharmacy and the house call instead of just the insurance card.
Blooming Health
Blooming Health is a New York-based social care technology company using AI to automate access to social services for older adults and vulnerable populations. Its AI-assisted, multilingual platform engages people across text, voice, and email to detect needs, screen for benefits, and connect them to services like meals, transportation, housing assistance, and Medicaid or SNAP recertification. Sold to Area Agencies on Aging, government agencies, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers, the platform has connected over 1.5 million people across roughly two dozen states and raised $32.5 million to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners in April 2025.
LifeCare
LifeCare is a Shelton, Connecticut-based provider of employer-sponsored work-life benefits, best known for its Backup Care Connection service and the LifeMart employee-discount marketplace. Founded in 1984, the company helps large employers and federal agencies support their workforce with last-minute child, adult, senior and pet care, along with senior-care management, tutoring, and everyday savings. LifeCare has served tens of thousands of client organizations covering roughly 100 million members and, since October 2020, has operated as part of Care.com (an IAC company) under the CareBenefits umbrella.
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.
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.
TrueCare24
TrueCare24 is a nationwide health and wellness platform that connects families and employers with vetted, on-demand healthcare providers - at home, on-site, or virtually. Founded in 2016 and backed by 500 Startups, its AI-driven marketplace handles scheduling, provider matching, replacements, payroll and taxes, offering senior home care, behavioral health counseling, on-site flu and COVID-19 vaccination, workplace testing, and telehealth across all 50 states, while cutting the typical cost of care from $25+ an hour to roughly $10-18.
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.
ExaCare AI
ExaCare AI is a New York-based healthcare technology company building an AI operating system for post-acute and senior care. Its suite of AI agents reads messy referral packets, recommends patient placements, automates reimbursement and documentation, and surfaces clinical risk so that care teams in skilled nursing, home health, and hospice spend less time on paperwork and more time on patients. Founded in 2022 by Laird Russell and Ben Willox, the company powers roughly 1,500-2,000 facilities nationwide and raised a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
Cadence
Cadence is a New York-based clinical technology company that helps health systems deliver continuous, proactive care to patients with chronic conditions at home. It pairs FDA-cleared connected devices that track vitals with an AI-powered care platform and a 24/7 clinical team, so doctors can catch problems - rising blood pressure, fluid buildup, glucose swings - before they become emergencies. Cadence partners with more than 20 leading U.S. health systems and supports tens of thousands of patients across dozens of states, targeting chronic diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and COPD.
Seen Health
Seen Health is a technology-enabled senior care company building culturally focused PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) centers, starting with Asian and Pacific Islander elders in California's San Gabriel Valley. Founded by twin brothers Xing and Yang Su, it combines comprehensive medical and social care, native-language providers, an AI documentation platform, and a program that trains and pays family members as caregivers so seniors can age at home with dignity instead of entering nursing homes.
Triple W USA (DFree)
Triple W USA makes DFree, the first wearable ultrasound sensor that predicts when you need to use the bathroom. The matchbox-sized device sits on the lower abdomen, tracks bladder fullness in real time, and sends an alert to a phone or tablet before it is too late. Founded by Atsushi Nakanishi in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, the company sells to individuals, caregivers, and senior care facilities under the banner of dignity and independent living - 'diaper-free.'
agilon health
agilon health is a healthcare company that helps community primary care physicians move from fee-for-service medicine to value-based care for seniors. Through its Total Care Model, agilon gives physician partners the capital, technology, data and 100% downside risk protection they need to take on full financial responsibility for the total care of their Medicare patients. The company partners with physician groups across more than 30 communities and serves over half a million seniors on its platform.
Clover Health
Clover Health is a Medicare Advantage insurer that runs on software. Its flagship platform, Clover Assistant, feeds physicians AI-driven, point-of-care insights drawn from millions of health data points so they can catch chronic disease earlier and treat it cheaper. After a rocky SPAC debut in 2021, the company reached adjusted EBITDA profitability in 2024, grew Medicare Advantage membership past 150,000, and is guiding to its first-ever full-year GAAP net income in 2026.
LifeLong Medical Care
LifeLong Medical Care is a Berkeley-based nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center that has delivered medical, dental, and social services to underserved people of all ages across California's East Bay since 1976. Born from the Gray Panthers' Over 60 Health Center, it now runs a network of primary care clinics, dental centers, school-based health sites, urgent care, and supportive housing programs, serving more than 66,000 patients a year regardless of income or insurance status.
WelbeHealth
WelbeHealth is a Menlo Park-based public benefit company operating PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) centers across California, delivering comprehensive medical, social, and in-home care that lets frail seniors keep living in their own communities instead of nursing homes.