Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

Deciens Capital is a venture capital firm that supports early-stage founders building the next generation of financial services. The firm seeks out visionary founders at the earliest stage of their journey – providing comprehensive support beyond capital to bring their ideas to life. Through strategic collaborations with industry leaders like Chipper Cash, the largest African fintech, Treasury Prime, the leading banking-as-a-service company, and Therma, a pioneer in industrial energy measurement and management, Deciens actively champions entrepreneurs driving the digital transformation of established institutions. Deciens was founded in 2017 by Daniel Kimerling and Zac Townsend and is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Deciens Capital

Cambia Health Solutions is a nonprofit total health solutions company based in the Pacific Northwest/Intermountain region, serving consumers and communities for nearly 100 years. Cambia companies provide a wide range of products and services, including healthcare information technology and software development, retail healthcare, health insurance plans that carry the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand, life insurance, pharmacy benefit management, consumer engagement and wellness.

Cambia Health Solutions

Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.

Kapor Capital

Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption. The fund centers around two macro themes which drives business innovation in the coming years: the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Craig Shapiro founded it in New York in 2010.

Collaborative Fund

Karlin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles. They are value-add partners helping entrepreneurs who take contrarian approaches to create impactful solutions to big, interesting problems. Karlin Ventures is an affiliate of Karlin Asset Management, a private investment firm managing over $1.4 billion of unleveraged equity capital.  Focus on enterprise software, eCommerce, marketplaces, advertising technology, and education technology but are open to exciting ideas in other verticals. Typical investments range from $100,000 to $2,000,000. Prefer co-investor roles and will participate in follow-on rounds.

Karlin Ventures

Generator Ventures is an investment platform focused exclusively on the intersection of aging, senior care, and technology. They partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who are leveraging technology to transform the aging experience. The smart and competitive yet with an innate ability to inspire, relate to others and build a strong, complementary team.

Generator Ventures

Bodley Group invests in seed or growth opportunities with compelling teams and a clear potential for outperformance. We seek to invest in companies with new proprietary technology, concept durability, clearly defined customer acquisition strategies, network effects and the potential for rapid growth. Most importantly, we target inspirational founders who are convinced of their plan for a different future and possess the fortitude to make their vision a reality. We have offices in St. Louis, Missouri and Palo Alto, California.

Bodley Group

Marc Bell Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers early-stage and private equity investment services to firms in the finance, hospitality, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 2000 by Marc Bell and is based in Florida.

Marc Bell Ventures

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and global network to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources.   EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs: - As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders; - Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first; - Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Exor Ventures

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

Initialized Capital

Symmetrical Ventures was founded in late 2015, with the vision of partnering with creative innovators who are looking to transform traditional business models through disruptive technology. Symmetrical Ventures is a privately-held investment firm, focused on placing investments in early stage startups.

Symmetrical Ventures

Ziegler LinkAge Longevity Fund is an investment Fund

Ziegler LinkAge Longevity Fund

QED Investors is an investment firm that supports high-growth companies and businesses. The firm typically provides a combination of both capital and capability. But common to all the firm's partnerships is a shared conviction that information plays a decisive role in the success of the company, a mutual desire for a high degree of direct engagement, and a shared enthusiasm for experimentation and learning.

QED Investors

Proton Enterprises is a Venture Developer empowering entrepreneurs that are shaping tomorrow's world for the better. Proton focuses on disruptive technologies to empower entrepreneurship, taking on projects of integrity to make a positive impact in the world. We align not only our capital, but our time and talent, working side-by-side with our entrepreneurs on the business mission at hand.   Focus: Financial Technology, IP Commercialization, and Health & Fitness

Proton Enterprises

Nelstone Ventures is an investment fund founded by Rich Nelson.  Nelstone Ventures invests and syndicates investment opportunities in various stage technology companies with a focus on enterprise software, gaming, health care, consumer internet and technology enabled business-to business companies. Nelstone Ventures seeks strong management teams with a disruptive idea where there is a large market opportunity and competitive differentiation. Nelstone Ventures looks to nurture these opportunities by providing strategic capital, a network of relationships, investment insights, strategic M&A and exit related ideas and advice.

Nelstone Ventures

Radicle Impact is an investment fund that partners with exceptional people to build businesses where financial success creates meaningful social change.

Radicle Impact

Founded in 2019, Parkway operates at the intersection of vision and execution with a focus on cutting-edge technologies and business models. The firm is largely focused on the trend of digital transformation of businesses, products and systems with software and hardware technologies in data science, artificial intelligence (AI), simulation, automation, spatial computing, internet of things (IOT), augmented reality (AR), generative design and optimization technologies.  Parkway primarily targets investments in the Climate Tech, Construction Tech (Contech), Property Tech (Proptech), Generative Design, Business Intelligence, Health Tech, Metaverse and Direct-to-Consumer sectors. Companies in which Parkway investments typically have a software as a service, unique technology, valuable patents and intellectual property that make them highly competitive in the market, valuable to potential strategic acquirers and/or display the potential for high growth annual recurring revenue.

Parkway Venture Capital

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early, and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technology.

Khosla Ventures

Centana Growth Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing growth equity and venture capital to companies in the financial services ecosystem. The firm’s partners bring decades of investing and operating experience, built on the backbone of specialized knowledge and deep domain expertise in our sectors. Over time our team has developed an extensive network with leading players and institutions in the industry, providing our companies the opportunity to accelerate growth and take their businesses to the next stage.

Centana Growth Partners

Westwood Ventures is an investment venture firm.

Westwood Ventures

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups. It is the parent company of AngelList Venture, AngelList Talent, and Product Hunt and has more than 20 unicorns in the portfolio. They support millions of job-seekers in their search and helped makers launch over 100,000 products that will define the future of tech.

AngelList

Trusted Insight is an LP network that provides institutional investors with curated news, jobs, rankings, online and offline events, and a forum.  With over 140,000 members on the platform controlling over $18 Trillion in assets, Trusted Insight is the fastest growing and most trusted alternative platform. 30,000 institutional investors engage with Trusted Insight each week. They are actively investing in alternative assets, primarily private equity, hedge funds, real estate and private companies.  Founded by Alex Bangash, Trusted Insight started in 2010 and is venture-funded and revenue-producing. Its investors were the first investors or founders of Facebook, LinkedIn, Mint, Match.com, and Blackstone, among others. The company has offices in NYC and San Francisco.

Trusted Insight

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

Congress Avenue Ventures is the smartest, simplest way for UTexas alums to add venture capital

Congress Avenue Ventures

QED is an investment firm that specializes in the fields of venture capital and financial management.

Castor Ventures is an investment firm. Castor Ventures invests in a broad range of venture-backed companies to build diversified venture portfolios invested alongside established venture firms.

Castor Ventures

True Link Financial

True Link is a diversified financial services firm dedicated to protecting and increasing our customers' independence and quality of life. True Link provides greater independence and autonomy to people who are at financial risk when engaging with the world.

True Link offers financial services for the elderly, disabled, and individuals in addiction-recovery, with its products including prepaid Visa cards and investment advisory services. The prepaid cards provide spending independence and third-party transaction monitoring to prevent exploitation. Users can customize card controls to block certain transactions and restrict access to specific outlets.

A concentration of wealth and a willingness to adopt age-in-place technologies present new opportunities.

Age Tech

True Link

True Link offers financial services for the elderly, disabled, and individuals in addiction-recovery, with its products including prepaid Visa cards and investment advisory services. The prepaid cards provide spending independence and third-party transaction monitoring to prevent exploitation. Users can customize card controls to block certain transactions and restrict access to specific outlets.As of March 2021, True Link operated in all 50 US states and aimed for international expansion. By July 2020, the company had 85 employees and offices in San Francisco, Phoenix, Denver, and New York.The investment advisory services design tailored portfolios considering individual needs, cash flow, age, and benefits eligibility, and include record-keeping tools for Social Security and Medicaid programs.&nbsp;The prepaid cards are priced at USD 12 per month (for set-up and maintenance) and the user incurs USD 1 to USD 4 per transaction in addition to withdrawal and balance inquiry fees.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsAs of 2023, the company had served 250,000+ families, 75+ government agencies, 250+ banks and trust companies, and 300+ nonprofits.In 2016, True Link partnered with Lyft, allowing its prepaid card to be used as a payment option, and again in 2020 to provide True Link customers transportation solutions. The company also partnered with STABLE in October 2018 to provide True Link Visa Prepaid Cards to STABLE Account holders.

Honor provides a platform for elderly persons and their families to find home care providers, and is claimed to be one of the largest on-demand home care networks in the US. The company’s key offerings include Home Care, Family Caregiver Resources, and the Honor Family App and Honor Family Care Network for remote monitoring.In August 2021, Honor announced the acquisition of home care provider Home Instead at an undisclosed value. The merged entity was expected to combine for over USD 2.1 billion home care services revenue.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsAs of August 2021, Home Instead had around 90,000 caregivers serving at 1,200 locations across the US and global markets. Home Instead acquired UK-based online platform SuperCarers in June 2020. It connects professional caregivers to elderly people seeking at-home care. Prior to the acquisition, SuperCarers had raised a total of GBP 4.9 million (USD 6.6 million).It also partners with the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications (ORCHA) to provide quality assured apps for psychological wellbeing, physical activity, and mental stimulation.

Honor

Eargo specializes in developing hearing aid and related services. Eargo has four products in its lineup: Link by Eargo, Eargo SE, Eargo Neo HiFi, Eargo 6, and Eargo 7. The company’s products are unique due to its design meant to keep the device invisible when plugged in.The products are priced between USD 749 (Link by Eargo) and USD 2,490 (Eargo 7). The Eargo Neo HiFi comes alongside an app and offers connected smart features such as audio personalization and control. The app allows the user to control the audio to suit their surroundings, customize settings, and contact Eargo's licensed hearing professionals for consultation and support.In October 2020, Eargo was listed as a public company and then acquired by Patient Square Capital In October 2023. Via the acquisition, Patient Square Capital acquired all outstanding shares of Eargo—that were not owned by Patient Square—at USD 2.55 per share. Key customers and partnershipsThe company utilizes a business-to-consumer (B2C) online retail strategy compared to traditional business-to-business (B2B) model deployed by other manufacturers who sell their products through clinics. The strategy has proven beneficial through the Covid-19 pandemic as consumer footfall for brick-and-mortar clinics have declined.

Eargo

K4Connect provides technology solutions to residents and staff members in senior living communities through its K4Community platform. The company was co-founded by Scott Moody who sold his fingerprint sensor technology company AuthenTec to Apple for USD 356 million in 2012, which then became the basis for Touch ID.The platform's offerings include digital voice and video communication, and community updates for residents. It also provides smart home automation through the provisioning of plug and play Alexa devices for residents and supports smart thermostats, smart lights, motion sensors, and sleep tracking devices. In addition, community staff members have access to tools for resident surveys, resident and family management, and communications. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the platform also established an expanded video chat service to facilitate resident-to-resident communication, staff requests, yoga classes, and dining room bookings. Further, in March 2020, it partnered with software communications firm Bandwidth to introduce a hotline for staff and residents as a means of keeping all parties up to date with community information.The platform is built on the company’s patented operating system, FusionOS. The company claims that FusionOS is an advanced multi-modal edge-cloud architecture, the first of its kind in the senior living industry. Residents and staff can access the platform using a smartphone app or pre-provisioned tables in the living communities priced on a per-resident basis.As of July 2020, the platform served over 800 independent and assisted living senior living communities across the US. The platform serves over 29,000 users at more than 125 senior living communities across 27 customers as of February 2020, more than doubling its users from 2018, which it expects to repeat in 2020. The company has established channel partnerships with Allbridge (a data, video and voice solution provider for senior living) in July 2020, and Eskaton (a senior services provider) and White Horse Village (a continuing care retirement community) in May 2019. It collaborated with GlobalLogic (a digital product engineering company) in July 2020 to expedite the development schedule of its K4Community Plus app in response to Covid-19.

K4Connect

CarePredict was founded by Former IBM consultant and tech veteran, Satish Movva, and produces Tempo smart wearables for the elderly community. Using machine learning (ML), the company claims the app can reduce the chance of a fall, and predict urinary tract infections (UTIs) and depression ahead of a clinical diagnosis. The device aims to assist caregivers in taking preventive action by detecting activities and behaviors which are precursors to health declines. The data from the device can also be shared with family members.The company generates revenue from device sales and subscriptions. Independent research conducted in September 2020 indicated that facilities using CarePredict’s wearables reported 40% fewer hospitalizations 69%, lower fall rates, 67% increased length of stay, and a 37% improved staff response rate than facilities that did not use CarePredict.The company expanded its operations in 2018 through its acquisition of WiseWare, a company selling activity-tracking jewelry for older users. In April 2020, it launched the PinPoint contact-tracing tools to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.Key customers and partnershipsIn February 2021, the company announced its partnership with Middle Alabama Area Agency on Aging (M4A). M4A is the agency behind the “Providing Alzheimer's N' Dementia Assistance” (PANDA) project. The company will be the first tech platform to be part of the project and will provide caregivers assistance in remote monitoring and preventive care using its smart wearables.

CarePredict

Eversound develops wireless headphone systems to enhance the level of engagement and social interaction for the elderly living in assisted living or memory care centres. The platform provides a library of programmed content on a variety of topics. The headphone system can be used to communicate with caregivers, during group events, family visits, and for music therapy. The headphones are equipped with a wireless transmitter and volume controls. It connects to external audio sources such as community A/V systems, televisions, and audio devices.The product was unveiled in May 2016. In a subsequent six month study conducted by LCB Senior Living community, group events leveraging the Eversound system resulted in an 18% reduction of residents falling asleep and a 28% increase in engagement during group events. In December 2016, the company expanded to 18 states across the US.In March 2020, as a part of its Covid-19 response, the company launched a live streamed, interactive content service to help seniors combat isolation. Further, as in-person visits at assisted living communities were interrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of Eversound’s visitation package proved to be crucial for socially distanced in-person visits. Key customers and partnershipsAs of December 2020, the company’s product is being used in more than 700 senior living communities across the US. Its clients include senior living communities such as Brightview, Commonwealth, and Oakmont. In addition, Eversound has established partnerships with senior living communities (such as The Arbor Company, Bridges by EPOCH, Christian Horizons, and Kisco) to roll out its devices for family visitations, and programmable and live streamed content.

Eversound

Tech-enabled equipment or companionship services that help elderly people function independently.

Platforms that match seniors with home care providers as well as app-based products to facilitate communication between senior families and caregivers

Tech-enabled products used to diagnose, prevent, and treat conditions common among seniors.

Remote monitoring, medical diagnosis, communication, and coordination between caregivers and families of the elderly.

Platforms that help seniors interact socially and communicate with others.

Platforms that help seniors and their families plan and make arrangements to settle the senior’s estates and affairs in the event of death.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for Age Tech

Offers digital platforms that support the wellness of the senior population

Age Tech providers incorporate GenAI to enhance both seniors’ and caregivers’ experiences

Many devices that help seniors operate independently and receive remote treatment use IoT

Some companies use VR to help treat seniors with conditions such as isolation and dementia

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