Check out today’s featured companies who have recently raised a round of funding, and be sure to check out the full list of past healthcare IT fundings.
Callie Care Raises $500K Pre-Seed to Tackle America’s Senior Care Gap With Phone-First AI
The Startup Aims to Bring Phone-First Voice AI to Millions of Older Adults Aging Alone
Callie Care Inc., an AgeTech startup building a proactive phone-first voice AI that calls seniors daily — helping them fight isolation, manage everyday needs, and stay connected to their families and care teams — has received non-dilutive funding from InterSystems Ventures and closed a $500K pre-seed round backed by angel investors. It addresses one of the most urgent demographic challenges in the U.S. today.
From Personal Experience to a Phone-First AI Companion
With nearly 29% of U.S. older adults living alone, the system around them is not built for it. Professional care is expensive and scarce, assisted living is out of reach for many. Existing technology solutions often fail this audience because of usability barriers. The burden falls back on families – 63M family caregivers, many already under high stress and financial strain.
But Callie Care’s Co-Founders — Igor Gurovich (Co-Founder of Refocus), Yury Palevich (ex-VP of Innovations at inDrive), and Michil Androsov (ex-CTO at inDrive) — didn’t arrive at the idea behind the startup through data alone. It emerged from their personal experience: each spent significant time with aging grandparents and saw firsthand how the modern world wasn’t designed for them.
That insight led them to create a voice AI companion that connects with older adults through daily wellness check-in phone calls, requiring no apps, downloads, or active tech navigation. Callie Care initiates daily calls and acts as a hands-on daily assistant, forming an AI layer between older adults and the outside world and helping them manage daily needs through the phone they already use…
Full release here, originally announced July 2nd, 2026.
Sage Crosses $100 Million in 2026 Funding with $35 Million Debt Facility from Stifel Bank
This Funding will Scale Sage’s Hardware-as-a-Service Model, Giving Senior Living Operators Access to Sage’s Full Operating System
Sage, the integrated care platform built for senior living and skilled nursing, today announced a $35 million specialized debt facility provided by Stifel Bank. The financing will scale Sage’s Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) initiative, helping senior living communities and skilled nursing facilities modernize aging infrastructure without requiring large upfront capital investments. Combined with its recent $65 million Series C equity round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Sage has raised $100 million in funding in 2026.
The senior care technology market is crowded with fragmented point solutions that only solve individual problems and rarely align with how operators budget. With upfront costs for traditional infrastructure often exceeding $150,000 to $300,000, plus ongoing costs to replace hardware and support fees, many communities are forced to delay critical upgrades and rely on expensive, outdated legacy systems. This reliance not only impacts resident well-being and care by limiting caregiver response times, but it also fuels severe staff burnout — a major driver behind the industry’s 80% turnover rate.
By restructuring how communities access its technology, Sage is now making its full operating system available at scale, combining software and hardware to create the infrastructure for senior living and skilled nursing facilities. This AI-powered life safety hardware, including life safety devices, advanced fall detection and elopement sensors, helps caregivers catch falls faster and prevent unsafe resident exits, while routing data directly into Sage’s software platform to streamline care workflows. Future upgrades become part of an ongoing partnership with Sage, ensuring communities always have the latest technology to keep residents safe. By restructuring upfront capital requirements, Sage enables operators to move from signed agreement to full deployment faster — reducing the delays that have historically accompanied large infrastructure investments in senior care.
“When a senior living community has to delay upgrading a broken or outdated life safety system because of budget constraints, it is the residents and the frontline caregivers who pay the price,” said Raj Mehra, Co-Founder and CEO at Sage…
Full release here, originally announced July 8th, 2026.
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