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Whatever Happened to Tech-Enabled Home Care?

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Past venture capital investment in home care technology boggles the mind. Consider Care.com – total funding through its 2016 IPO of $156 million (mostly direct-to-consumer) – with Alphabet/Google as of 2016 as the last round and largest shareholder of the company. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care.

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The technology category that cannot be spoken aloud – serving older adults

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of venture capital. of venture money is allocated to serve them? Thankfully the big guns like Gillette and Google see an opportunity -- and even an expansion, amazingly, of their business. . category tags: Aging technology , Aging , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. trillion , only 0.7% We can certainly hope.

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Six recent Voice/Conversational AI innovations for older adults

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January 21, 2022) "CoterieTM, a joint venture with Related Companies and Atria, will see the first installation of Amazon Echo Shows at its new Cathedral Hill luxury senior living community in San Francisco. Google Nest and Senior Living. Learn more. Atria Senior Living – Echo Shows throughout selected communities. Learn more.

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2019: What Technology Matters for Older Adults

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Embodied Labs (a VR offering) won AARP’s innovation pitch in October and Wavelet Health won the Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit Business Plan competition. CES 2018 top competitor battle was between Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors.

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Five Health and Aging Blog Posts from August 2020

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The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant market (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) We get pretty excited when a new venture firm starts up in the US that focuses on older adults. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Linkage – A rare survey of technology ownership among the oldest

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The Internet, Family, Google and Friends are their trusted sources, and online training is the preferred method for learning about communications tech. NOTE: If you are going to be at CALA in Monterey next week, or the Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit in Berkeley -- let's meet!].

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Allurion: first HealthTech IPO of 2023 via SPAC with Compute Health

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Additionally, the company has been criticized for its high price tag. Allurion's venture capital investors believe that the company has the potential to become a major player in the weight loss market. In addition to venture capital funding, Allurion has also received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).