11 Tech Startups Building Better Senior Care
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Building a better life for seniors has never been more important.
By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be over 60. As a result of people living longer into their “golden years,” just about every country in the world is seeing its senior population increase.
So it’s no surprise the market for providing care to seniors — everything from pharmaceuticals and assistive devices to housing and nursing care — is growing rapidly. In the U.S. alone, the market’s expected to reach $1.2T by 2029.
Companies in the space are leveraging new technologies to provide seniors with community, in-home health monitoring, live captioned conversations, freedom of mobility, and more.
The trend of aging populations presents opportunities for robotics on two fronts: the need to assist seniors in carrying out day-to-day tasks and the need to automate the gaps in a shrinking workforce.
If you’re energized by the prospect of making people’s later years truly golden, check out our list of the top companies hiring to build the future of senior care.
- Mon AmiAgetech startup building the modern operating system for aging & disability services11-50 EmployeesActively Hiring
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.monami.io
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco Bay Area, Remote
- About
Mon Ami a women-founded, mission-driven startup building the next generation of SaaS for senior services to enable the delivery of life-sustaining social services for older adults.
We're going after a $100B+ senior services market where the customers are currently not tech-enabled and are wasting 60% of their time on administrative paperwork that can be digitized and automated.
Founders have deep expertise in healthcare and aging, and two prior exits with software companies. Venture-backed by Cowboy Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Maverick Ventures, and Freestyle Ventures.
- Industries
- GovernmentsNonprofitsSenior CitizensSenior Health
Jobs
2 weeks ago$110k – $170kRemote • United States3 years of exp3 weeks ago$55k – $75k • 0.01% – 0.04%Remote • North America+10 years of exp1 month ago$135k – $170kRemote • United States3 years of exp - Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Boston
- About
Our consumer-facing platform offers members an array of personalized information, interactive experiences around shared interests, local activities and volunteering opportunities. It empowers members to connect and engage within a secure community.
We’ve designed this first-of-a-kind platform specifically for seniors and have built it on a foundation of scientific methods to prevent and reduce loneliness for our members; and we’re innovating with them.
SecureSeniorConnections is data-science-driven, with a dedicated virtual assistant, Olana, to help members navigate our age friendly platform, even those new to online engagement. We engage through text or voice on mobile phones, laptops and tablets.
- Industries
- Senior CitizensSenior Health
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://www.feelnear.com/
- Employees
- 1-10
- About
The near Tech Stand offers hands-on tech support in a pop-up booth. Like a Genius Bar for retirement communities, we centralize our services to reach more customers while still offering high-touch human support.
In-person assistance is critical to our target demographic, and by partnering with facilities where our customers already spend time, we minimize infrastructure requirements. Each full-time near representative can serve 120 Tech Stands/month.
- Industries
- Senior CitizensSenior HealthElderlySenior HousingSeniors
- B2C
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- New York City, Brooklyn
- About
We believe that getting older doesn’t have to mean slowing down. We make staying active through all of life’s stages easy.
Balanced is creating a personalized digital wellness community that inspires movement, mindfulness, and joy through group exercise to live a healthier and more fulfilling life. We meet older adults where they are with their heterogeneous profiles by taking into account chronic conditions, injuries, pain, and physical ability.
- Industries
- ExerciseSeniors
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Nashville
- About
Healing Innovations is a medical technology company focused on improving care within the rehabilitation continuum.
Our mission is to increase access to rehabilitation through the development and commercialization of market-leading robotic technology that helps people improve health, mobility, and independence. Healing Innovations offers advanced robotic technology, software, and services to care settings throughout the rehabilitation continuum.
Healing Innovations was named the 2021 Tech Startup of the Year by the Nashville Technology Council.
- Industries
- Rehabilitation
- B2C
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.ava.me/
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- San Francisco, Paris
- About
Every day, millions of people are excluded from conversations because they cannot hear what others say well. Ava provides a way for them to be fully included in the conversation.
Our CEO Thibault grew up in a Deaf family and saw firsthand how the world was not accessible for them. Together with our CTO Skinner — deaf since age 2 — Thibault co-founded Ava to make live captioning of conversations as easy as turning on captions on TV.
Our small but fast-growing team has reinvented AI-based speech recognition technology to be in service of people who need it the most. We dream of a 24/7 accessible world, without any communication barrier.
- Industries
- Ventures for GoodCommunications Hardware
- Sprinter HealthReimagining last mile healthcare: in-home blood draws, vitals, and more11-50 EmployeesActively Hiring
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://sprinterhealth.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- San Francisco Bay Area, Remote
- About
At Sprinter, we're focused on dramatically expanding access to healthcare by reimagining the patient experience—delivered at home and powered by technology for scale. We’re a boots-on-the-ground clinician network for the telehealth age, bringing routine blood draws, labs, and vitals checks into people's busy lives.
In short, we deliver on-demand blood draws, labs, vitals, and more all from the convenience of your home. Think DoorDash for your next blood draw—but with licensed clinicians, modern telediagnostic devices, and a user experience rebuilt from the ground up around ease, convenience, and quality.
We’re led by a team with leadership experience at Facebook, Google, and LabCorp, and educated at Harvard Business School and Duke University. We’re also backed by prominent angel investors and VCs, and advised by medical board of industry leaders.
- Industries
- B2C
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- http://outcomes4me.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Boston
- About
Outcomes4Me is the easy, secure, and evidence-based app for patients to manage their cancer treatment.
Empowering patients with the knowledge to co-direct their care has been shown to be uniquely impactful, and medical literature agrees that it is an unfilled gap in our healthcare system.
Outcomes4Me is filling this gap by providing a personalized platform for patients and their families that brings doctor-approved information about treatments, clinical trials, and more in the convenience of a consumer-grade mobile app.
- Industries
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://www.alacrity.care/
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Los Angeles, San Francisco
- About
Alacrity Care is a technology company developing digital care companions for oncology therapeutics. Our CloudOnc® platform powers specialized remote patient monitoring and adverse event management solutions.
Intersecting software, hardware, and services, Alacrity Care's products are unlocking the real-world potential of AI through best-in-class real world data collection and a robust infrastructure of clinical support.
Email us: [email protected]
- Industries
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Website
- http://www.bodyport.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- San Francisco
- About
Our mission is to eliminate the leading cause of death worldwide - heart disease. We are bridging the gap between hospital grade medical devices and the health tools presently available in the home.
We are a biomarker-guided digital therapeutics company that aims to address complex chronic conditions by embedding a sophisticated biomarker platform into simple, easy-to-use devices.
With one simple step, every person can access comprehensive health insights in their own home. Now patients and their care teams can better predict, understand, and intervene in worsening health to prevent hospitalizations and improve quality of life.
- Industries
- B2C
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://www.gethank.com
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- New York City
- About
We’re living longer—but are we living better? Today, we spend longer than ever as retirees. Yet nearly half of older adults report that retirement has fallen short of their expectations: without the structure and schedule of work, one in three experience feelings of loneliness and isolation, loss of purpose and identity, and boredom. Hank was born out of our own personal experiences seeing those around us—parents, grandparents, friends—go through those exact feelings in their post-retirement years. We're aiming to change that by bringing 55+ adults together with experiences and like-minded folks in their community, helping to build connections that will keep us collectively living longer, happier, and healthier.
- Industries
- Senior CitizensSenior Health
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