Tonight, in a senior living community somewhere in America, a resident will wake and attempt to walk to the bathroom alone. If she falls, the odds are no one will see it. Without a witness or an alert, caregivers may not know what happened until the next scheduled check. The people who care for her are skilled and devoted. But they simply cannot be everywhere at once. Falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries among adults over 65 and, for many older adults, a serious fall can begin a decline from which they never fully recover.¹ For decades, the gap between the care that residents need and what caregivers can see has been accepted as an unavoidable part of aging.

Inspiren was built to close it.

The silver wave is here

America is aging faster than the systems built to care for it. This year, the first baby boomers turn 80. Adults 65 and older are the fastest-growing age group in the country,² and by 2030, one in five Americans will be 65 or older.³ Residents are also moving into senior living programs later in life, frailer, and with more cognitive impairment than these communities were designed for. At the same time, the workforce caring for them is stretched thin, with annual caregiver turnover hovering near 80%.⁴ Demand is compounding and caregivers cannot keep pace.

Walk into a senior living community at 2 a.m. and the math is unforgiving: a few caregivers, dozens of residents, and tens of thousands of square feet. The most consequential moments of care often happen where no one can see them. Many falls go unwitnessed. Subtle changes in mobility surface only once they become emergencies. Care is delivered but not captured in the record. And when no one can say what happened after a fall, protocol may leave only one option: send the resident to the hospital, whether they need to go or not.

Technology has tackled this challenge one problem at a time: a device for fall detection, a help button, a task log. Each solves a piece of the puzzle. But none addresses the whole picture.

Full-community intelligence, built for dignity

Inspiren unifies these isolated signals into a continuous picture of care. Its platform combines purpose-built hardware, edge AI, and workflow software to give care teams a real-time understanding of the entire community. AUGi, Inspiren’s flagship wall-mounted sensor, provides privacy-protected visibility into resident rooms. Help buttons, resident pendants, and staff beacons connect emergency response and care delivery across the entire community.

The difference becomes most evident when a resident needs help. A traditional emergency call might tell a caregiver only that an alert was triggered and where. Inspiren adds context. The caregiver can see what is happening, assess urgency, and arrive prepared. When the interaction is over, the system automatically documents the care delivered, adding another data point to a long-term view of the resident’s activity, needs, and changing condition.

Inspiren’s platform was designed to preserve the privacy and dignity of the people it’s meant to protect. The system collects only the minimum data needed to keep them safe and participation is fully opt-in. Processing happens on the device. The goal is awareness without intrusion: giving care teams enough information to act while safeguarding each resident’s dignity.

Increasingly, the platform acts in the minutes before the fall, flagging the behaviors that precede adverse events early enough for a caregiver to intervene before the event instead of after it. In one Inspiren-enabled community, 911 calls related to falls declined by 83%.⁵ Underneath every alert, something more durable accumulates: a continuous, longitudinal record of each resident's care, the first of its kind in the industry.

Inspiren is improving care outcomes in senior living communities across the U.S., with up to:⁵

Inspiren’s ambition also extends beyond prevention. With continuous visibility, trusted operator relationships, and presence in more than 400 communities across the U.S., Inspiren is positioned to place an intelligent clinical layer between an alert and an ambulance: assessing events in real time, routing residents to the appropriate level of care, and, over time, coordinating the care that follows.

The right mission, model, and team

Inspiren is differentiated by the alignment between its mission and business model. Preventing falls, avoiding hospitalizations, and improving care decisions all lead to better outcomes for residents and a stronger community for the people who care for them. For families, this can mean more time with a parent or grandparent, fewer avoidable trips to the emergency room, and peace of mind when they can’t be there in person. For operators, Inspiren’s platform supports safer communities, stronger care teams, and better performance. In our diligence, that alignment surfaced in customer conversations, and is the foundation of our thesis.

Moreover, Inspiren is led by people who understand American healthcare from the inside. CEO Alex Hejnosz began his career as an emergency medical technician, then went on to co-found CipherHealth, a patient engagement platform used by hundreds of hospitals nationwide. Over nearly two decades, he has stayed focused on a single problem: how to make healthcare technology work in the realities of care delivery. Founder Michael Wang is a former Green Beret turned cardiothoracic nurse. It is a rare pairing: a clinician who learned to build, and a builder who never left healthcare. They have bolstered that experience with leadership from Anduril, Peloton, and Shopify, and a shared conviction that technology only matters if it helps an overextended caregiver at 2 a.m.

Physical AI, compounding in the real world

We believe the most important AI companies will do more than analyze information already trapped in software. They will perceive the physical world, learn from it, and improve the decisions made within it. Inspiren is doing this in one of the places where those decisions matter most: the communities where older adults live and receive care.

Every room where Inspiren is present produces more longitudinal context. Every resident interaction, caregiver response, and clinical outcome makes the system more useful. More communities create denser data, denser data leads to smarter models, smarter models help care teams deliver safer, more responsive care, and better outcomes drive broader adoption. Purpose-built hardware, community-wide coverage, deeply embedded workflows, and a growing longitudinal dataset make Inspiren increasingly difficult to replicate. We have seen a similar model compound in our own portfolio with Verkada in physical security and Halter in pasture management, where proprietary hardware and software turn real-world activity into continuously improving intelligence. Inspiren brings that model to one of the most meaningful frontiers of AI: helping older adults live safer, longer, and with greater dignity.

Building the future of senior care

We believe what is a differentiator for operators today will soon become an expectation for families, and ultimately the standard of care for an aging nation. We are proud to lead Inspiren's Series C and to partner with Alex, Michael, and the entire team as they build a future in which technology helps people age with greater safety, independence, and dignity.