Company: CallieCare
Founders: Igor Gurovich, Yury Palevich, Michil Androsov
Website: https://getcallie.care/
About CallieCare
CallieCare is an AgeTech startup building a phone-first voice AI that automatically calls seniors helping them fight isolation and cognitive decline and giving caregivers an easier way to monitor and stay informed about their wellbeing.
With nearly 28% of U.S. seniors living alone, loneliness now affects millions. CallieCare co-founders Igor Gurovich, Yury Palevich, and Michil Androsov arrived at the idea behind the startup through their personal experience: each spent significant time with aging grandparents and saw firsthand how the modern world was not designed for them, and how profound the effects of loneliness can be.
That insight led them to create a voice AI companion that connects with seniors through daily wellness check-in phone calls, requiring no apps, downloads, or active tech navigation. CallieCare initiates daily calls and engages users in natural, context-aware conversations. It adapts to their personality, remembers context from previous conversations, provides emotional support, and enables gentle wellness monitoring. It also keeps seniors mentally stimulated — introducing new topics, sharing interesting facts and exercises that help maintain curiosity and cognitive resilience.
Unlike app-based solutions, CallieCare operates entirely through regular phone calls, eliminating hardware and interface barriers. The system uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to remember past conversations and personalise each interaction, while integrating real-world context such as weather and news to make conversations natural and relevant.
The system, powered by multiple specialised AI models, already extracts meaningful health and wellness signals from natural conversations. Family members receive weekly wellness reports with mood tracking and emotional trends, with instant alerts when concerns arise. For care organisations, the platform flags health signals for clinical attention — signs of pain, depression, or cognitive changes — and detects practical needs like shopping, appointments, or home help before seniors ask.
The company is building toward passive voice biomarker analysis to detect early signals of cognitive decline from speech patterns. Research shows this approach can achieve 70-90% sensitivity, compared to 30% for traditional screening, potentially identifying changes years before clinical diagnosis.
With up to 80% of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and over 40% of dementia cases remaining undiagnosed, and an average 3.5-year diagnostic delay, earlier detection through passive voice monitoring represents a major opportunity for preventive intervention.
– Our mission is to ensure no senior feels alone. By combining cutting-edge voice AI with such a simple and familiar interface as a phone call, we are creating a daily connection that eases loneliness and helps maintain cognitive engagement — one of the key contributors to a healthy lifespan, says Yury Palevich, co-founder and CEO of CallieCare.
Early results show strong traction: in the B2C segment, over 8,000 users have tried the service since launching its MVP in mid-October 2025, and 85% of engaged users asked to keep receiving regular calls.
The long-term vision includes evolving from daily check-in calls to a fully personalised AI companion that integrates with healthcare providers, enables voice-first access to various services, and becomes an essential platform for joyful and connected aging.
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