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OCHSNER HEALTH
Sep 2, 2021 -
Through the partnership, Ochsner Health's Medicare Advantage patients will gain access to Bold's platform, which assesses current fitness levels to create a personalized exercise program for users. For seniors, a fall could result in a serious injury that greatly impairs their daily life.
To combat this issue, New Orleans-based Ochsner Health and its innovation arm, innovation Ochsner, have partnered with Bold, a digital exercise platform for adults over 50 that aims to reduce falls.
COLLER VENTURE
Jun 23, 2021 - Coller Venture Review, the flagship
journal of the Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University, continues its mission to help
bridge theory with practice in the areas of
venture, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
In this issue, we draw on the insights and
expertise of a range of contributors across
changing technology paradigms and industries.
Our articles continue to articulate emerging
trends, extract generalizable themes, and lend
insights associated with the codification of
new ways of thinking linked to action in the
conceptualization, financing, and execution
of innovation and new venture creation.
FRACTION
Feb 10, 2021 - Fraction Technologies Inc. ("Fraction"), is announcing that it has raised C$289 million in a combination of equity and debt financing from Impression Ventures, Primetime Partners, Global Founders Capital, and Panache Ventures, among others. It will use this funding to launch in Canada, expand its team and technology platform, and prepare for its launch in the U.S.
SWAAY
Nov 10, 2020 - When former JP Morgan executive Rhian Horgan began working with her parents on their retirement planning, she quickly became bogged down in calculating their complicated financial scenarios. Horgan hit her low point when trying to wade through a dense 300-page guide to social security that she had bought out of desperation at her local Barnes & Noble.
CRUNCHBASE NEWS
Sep 29, 2020 - Two startups, Retirable and Capitalize, announced seed funds of $4.7 million and $2 million, respectively, on Tuesday to go after the $17 trillion retirement savings market. Each has a different approach to helping Americans manage their retirement accounts. Vestigo Ventures led the $4.7 million round for New York-based Retirable, with participation from Diagram Ventures, Primetime Partners and angel investors.
LONGEVITY TECHNOLOGY
Sep 9, 2020 - This summer, a new venture capital firm was launched with an exclusive focus on longevity. Primetime Partners is co-founded by Abby Miller Levy, a wellness executive and founder, and Alan Patricof, one of America’s most well-known investors. The firm is focused on “seed and early-stage investments in products, services, technologies and experiences for the aging.”
AGING 2.0
Sep 8, 2020 - The Digital Divide is not a single issue. It’s the result of many trends and topics that intersect ‘as a system’. In this report, The Aging2.0 Collective, in partnership with the Nomura Research Institute, is ‘Framing the Challenge’ for the Digital Divide where it overlaps with fintech, city migration, and the ever-present context of an aging population.
FINANCIAL TIMES
Jul 30, 2020 - Covid-19 has forced the elderly to embrace digital technology to an unprecedented degree, whether to shop, seek entertainment or simply see friends and family. As more Older Adults choose to "age in place," they will need companies and technologies that support their choice to age at home. The leaders of the Primetime fund hope this will create demand for new types of elderly services, which entrepreneurs could tap.
WSJ | MAGAZINE
Jul 29, 2020 - Alan Patricof, the 85-year old chairman emeritus of Greycroft, has co-founded Primetime Partners, a fund aimed at products and services for older people, and sees himself as a “poster boy” for September entrepreneurs: “I felt I had another round ahead of me—a third act.”
FORTUNE
Jul 29, 2020 - VC icon Alan Patricof and SoulCycle vet Abby Levy launch fund to invest in aging. The pair announced the launch of Primetime Partners, a new style of venture capital firm that will bet on innovation related to aging and seniors.
FUTURITY
Jul 14, 2020 - Ageism is becoming more and more prevalent in American society, with over 80% of survey respondents over the age of 50 noting that they commonly experience at least one form of ageism in their everyday lives. Yet, despite this sentiment, a resounding majority of these individuals also held positive attitudes towards aging.
BUSINESS INSIDER
Jun 28, 2020 - In this Business Insider article, Abby Levy (Managing Partner at Primetime Partners) refutes Scott Galloway’s (NYU professor and media commentator on entrepreneurship) claim that age is an impediment to founding a successful media-tech firm.
PEW RESEARCH
March 10, 2020 - Living with an extended circle of relatives is the most common type of household arrangement for older people around the world, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. But in the United States, older people are far less likely to live this way – and far more likely to live alone or with only a spouse or partner.
FRACTION TECHNOLOGY
Jul 12, 2021 - After Hayden James and Josh Baker met through a mutual friend four years ago, they started working on an idea to build a Hootsuite-type social media automation business for independent professionals and entrepreneurs. Their startup was housed in the Vancouver office of U.S. conglomerate Century 21 Real Estate on nights and weekends. There, they quickly learned about the residential property industry from realtors who would come and go.
KINDRA
Jun 15, 2021 - Kindra, a modern wellness brand for menopause essentials, announced today that it closed a $4.5 million seed funding round. The new capital will be used to drive the continued growth and expansion of Kindra. The round is led by the Female Founders Fund. Primetime Partners, Anne and Susan Wojcicki, Katie Couric Media, The Community Fund, and H Ventures are also investors in this round.
CARELYST
Nov 12, 2020 - A popular caricature of older people depicts them as hopeless with technology, fumbling with remote controls or struggling to navigate the Internet. This stereotype, though, is often unfair—and it’s becoming even more so during in the age of COVID.
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CRUNCHBASE NEWS
Oct 13, 2020 - Over the last 10 years, investment in startups focused on the areas of “elder care” and “home health care” has increased. At the same time, investors are eying new opportunities in the space. Reframing technologies so seniors can live their best life, be active and prevent health mishaps while staying in their own home is the key, say experts we interviewed.
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THE HILL
Sep 18, 2020 - If American voters have any doubts about the age of the two presidential candidates, they should know that today’s 70-year-old is similar to the energy of a 50-year-old of just a few generations ago. In just a few weeks, the United States will elect its oldest president ever, just four years after the two oldest presidential candidates in history faced each other in the last general election.
ROCK HEALTH
Sep 8, 2020 - The aging of America presents a unique window of opportunity to support aging in place1 with digital health technologies. A confluence of factors have coalesced to align incentives across payers, older adults, and their families and caregivers. This has created a unique opportunity for digital health-driven transformation. In this review, we discuss three reasons why 2020 marks a material turning point for aging in place and highlight eight areas where we see opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors.
EDWARD JONES
Aug 4, 2020 - Retirement today means a new life chapter that you get to write – so say the majority of today’s retirees in a recent study from Edward Jones and Age Wave called “The Four Pillars of the New Retirement.” Edward Jones partnered with Age Wave on this comprehensive five-generation study including a survey of 9,000 adults in the U.S. and Canada.
BLOOMBERG
Jul 29, 2020 - Veteran investor Alan Patricof has teamed with entrepreneur Abby Miller Levy to back startups riding the “silver tsunami.” Patricof and Abby Miller Levy, former president of Thrive Global, an employee wellness company in which Greycroft invested, hatched the idea for Primetime in November and have since raised $32 million for their new fund, Primetime Partners.
CNBC
Jul 29, 2020 - Start-up investor Alan Patricof, at 85, targets aging Americans with his latest venture fund. Patricof is teaming up with Abby Miller Levy, former president of Thrive Global, to invest in the “silver tsunami” they say has been overlooked by Silicon Valley.
KAISER HEALTH NEWS
Jul 24, 2020 - As more interactions move to a virtual format as a result of COVID-19, many Older Adults are left unable to participate. KHN (Kaiser Health News) looks at the various ways Older Adults have been impacted by the ever increasing digital world.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Jul 7, 2020 - Nearly 60% of working-age people in the United States don’t have any money in a retirement account. Several states are working to solve this problem through various means: (1) legislation to promote retirement planning through mechanisms such as auto-IRAs, (2) retirement marketplaces, and (3) multi-employer plans.
OXFORD ACADEMIC
Apr 20, 2020 - In this article, Nora Super identifies three key trends related to our aging population that are likely “to shape our nation’s politics for the next decade."
VOX
Mar 12, 2020 - Vox does a deep dive on the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have on the social determinants of health amongst Older Adults. Specifically, Vox has identified the impending “social recession” as a major risk to the health and wellbeing of our aging population.
