AI in Care

Ron Gura and Yonatan Bergman are reshaping the way families navigate the complexities of loss. Through their platform, Empathy, they offer practical, compassionate support, addressing both the emotional and logistical burdens of bereavement. By streamlining everything from funeral planning to estate settlement, they empower families to move efficiently through the administrative work so they can focus on healing.

At the forefront of elder care innovation, MIT-spin off Butlr Care uses AI-powered sensors to monitor well-being without compromising privacy. This cutting-edge technology, the creation of which was led by computational designer Honghao Deng, allows for continuous, real-time tracking, offering peace of mind to caregivers and fostering independence among older adults.

Co-founders Dennis Antonelos and Mehrdad Shafaie are tackling healthcare’s financial barriers head-on with Core.Care. Their platform simplifies the daunting task of managing medical expenses, providing families with easy-to-use tools that makes healthcare more affordable.

Jeffrey Witten, Ben Howard, and Dan Horbatt came together to build a solution for everyday people dealing with the all-too-common obstacles in medical bills and health insurance. Sheer Health uses AI to help people choose the right health insurance plan for their unique needs, get reimbursements, and look out for clerical errors—saving time and money for overwhelmed families.

Amanda Ducach is a Latina founder with a big vision rooted in her own experiences as a mother and caretaker. Her latest venture, Ema, is an AI assistant for women's health providing patients with empathic, evidenced-based advice about everything from managing chronic conditions to menopause to mental health. Better yet, the data that Ema feeds back to healthcare companies helps them better design the systems their patients experience.

Reshma Saujani, founder of Moms First, is on a mission to improve working women's lives. Her latest collaboration, PaidLeave.ai, is a first-of-its-kind generative AI chatbot to help caregivers understand what benefits they might have access to given their particular situation and come up with an action plan for pursuing what they deserve.

Emily King, co-founder of Faye, understands that the mental load is very real for working moms. She also understands that managing a family is a serious skillset. From these two insights, Faye was born; a platform where a busy parent gets matched with a local adviser who obliterates the neverending to-do list. It's both a mental health and workforce development win, enabled by wisely leveraged AI.

Care Daily co-founders Dave Moss and Gene Wang understand that AI has the power to reduce healthcare costs and improve aging adults' quality of life simultaneously. Their white-labeled AI caregiver, Arti, speaks in plain language about medications, fall risks, and a host of other critical points of care, helping institutions that serve elders get ahead of their needs and reduce spending and suffering.

In 2021, April Koh became the youngest woman ever to run a unicorn company. Spring Health, her AI-powered platform, addresses the mental health crisis facing American families by having employers offer their employees personalized care plans and quick access to mental health professionals. Spring Health boasts one of the most diverse provider networks anywhere, ensuring people aren't just served by the seamless tech, but a culture of belonging.

Shyamal Anadkat is keen to integrate AI into the care economy. He’s behind a standing Designing Care and AI office hours, open to startups building in care monthly. He and his team at OpenAI meet with startups to answer questions, review work, give guidance on applying this technology and generously share credits. Everyone’s learning together, and it’s a fantastic platform for these two worlds to better intersect.

Co-founders Victor Hunt and Daniel Tian both had family members who worked as home health aids, so they had personal insight into the crisis this country faces. That’s why they built Zingage—a platform for agencies employing home-based care providers. They support their clients to transform culture, cueing in to professional caregivers’ needs and motivations to prevent burn-out, encourage excellence, and retain caregivers who take pride in their societally critical work.

Saqib Shaikh's latest invention isn't just an app, it's a portal for the disabled to experience the world around them differently. Seeing AI enables someone visually impaired to hold up their phone and hear more about the text, people, and objects in their surroundings. They are also currently partnering with other organizations to address the data desert on disability, a critical shift as AI learning models continue to evolve.

One of the hallmarks of degenerative diseases is loss—loss of expectations, loss of capacity, and too often, loss of connection. But leveraging AI, what might be reclaimed? Lenovo and DeepBrain recently collaborated to create a hyper-realistic AI avatar dedicated to preserving the voice, personality, and physical mannerisms of someone with a degenerative disease. The groundbreaking avatar opens new pathways for applying generative AI to accessibility challenges.

Kyle Rand and Tom Neumann’s Rendever brings the world to seniors through virtual reality, combating loneliness and isolation and reigniting imaginations. By immersing older adults in VR experiences, Rendever fosters social connections, adventure, and cognitive stimulation.

Vik Kashyap’s innovation turns everyday bathroom habits into critical health data, enabling preventative care. TrueLoo from Toi Labs offers real-time health insights by analyzing waste, allowing caregivers to track hydration, diet, and early signs of illness, particularly for elderly and vulnerable loved ones.

There is so much talk about architecting solutions with those most directly impacted by the problems. Alistair Stephenson and Kelly Gannon of the National Domestic Workers Alliance are walking the talk with their Care Worker AI Learning Tour. The tour will educate workers about the cutting-edge applications of AI and solicit feedback on what would actually make lives better—bridging the worlds of innovators and care workers in real time.

Brothers Ed and Todd Park created Devoted Health with the mission to make sure every older American has access to the same healthcare they would want for their own family. In order to do this, they built a tech-driven approach from scratch that streamlines healthcare for seniors, offering an integrated experience that includes dedicated guides and proactive health management, ensuring better outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries.

Dor Skuler’s companion robot, ElliQ from Intuition Robotics, leverages AI with the latest insights on what makes elders feel supported, connected, and inspired. ElliQ does everything from encouraging exercise and medication consistency to having in-depth conversations with seniors. This widely accessible companion is setting a new standard for humanizing tech that allows elders to age-in-place.

Sam Gardner and Mady Mantha’s Happypillar is like a play therapist in your pocket. Parents spend one-on-one time with their kids (7 and under), going through research-backed prompts designed by therapists and implemented with AI and machine learning. In just five dedicated minutes per day, parents are finding that their relationships with their kids are strengthened and their kids have improved resilience and emotional regulation.

Kris Engskov's ambition, Rippl, is to pioneer AI-powered wraparound services for caregivers for people with dementia, Alzheimer's, and other behavioral health issues. Through holistic evaluation, expert clinical care, specialty care navigation, planning, and coaching, Rippl helps families stay out of the ER and hospital and thrive despite all the challenges of cognitive decline.

Dr. Alison Gopnik has been a leading voice on children and caregiving for decades. She recently turned her attention towards what AI can not only do for families, but learn from babies. She is leading studies alongside researchers in her lab at UC Berkeley as well as Stanford's Social Science of Caregiving Program. Dr. Gopnik's perspective is critical for the continued efficacy of AI to humanely impact caregivers' lives.

David Koretz is the CEO of CopilotIQ, the industry's first AI-driven platform that delivers in-home care during the full spectrum of a patient's experience, from pre-surgical advisement to acute, post-acute, and even chronic care delivery. They are on a mission to reimagine the future of healthcare delivery by extending care to the comfort of patients’ homes, improving outcomes for patients, and reducing costs for healthcare systems.

Vikram Bhaskaran, Arun Ranganathan, and Dr. Rohan Ramkrishna are on a mission with Roon to make trusted, AI-powered health guidance accessible to all. They envision a world where everyone has a “doctor in their pocket” for any health need. Through expert video guidance from doctors, social workers, and people with firsthand experience, Roon helps users navigate health challenges with clarity and confidence.

Dr. Joy Buolamwini was called "the conscience of the AI revolution" by Fortune Magazine. She is a computer scientist who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more equitable and accountable technology. She is also the author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines.

Innovators Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, and Lachy Groom wanted to explore what breakthroughs in AI can unleash in the field of robotics. Their first experiement together features a variety of robots doing a range of household chores--laundry, trash, dishes--with impressive skill. Only time will tell how this technology can liberate caregivers and help those with physical disabilities maintain independence, but with a recent $400 million investment, the potential looms large.