awards / prizes

AARP, LivePitch Media Announce Start-Up Finalists For Health Innovation@50+

Aging2.0 is a proud media sponsor of AARP’s Health Innovation@50+ Live Pitch event. Here’s a press release / update from our friends at AARP. Congratulations to the Live Pitch finalists!  We hope to see many of you in New Orleans on September 21st. Use the promo code Aging2 for FREE admission ($295 savings!). WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 5, 2012 – AARP [...]

AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch

Hey startups – Would you like to get to know AARP? Would you like to pitch your company to venture capitalists and angel investors? Would you like to get your product/service in front of thousands of AARP members? And do you want a massive discount, exclusive to Aging2.0 readers? Yes, we thought you might. Read [...]

Palo Alto Medical’s Innovation Center Announces Seed Funding for Accelerator Program

[Note: This is a guest post by Hemali Thakkar from Health 2.0  (@Health2con). Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Innovation Center (@pamfinnovation) partnered with Health 2.0 to run the linkAges Developer Challenge and Accelerator Program. linkAges (#linkAges) is the Innovation Center’s Successful Aging initiative. We blogged about the challenge when it was announced in April and again after our energizing weekend at the linkAges kickoff [...]

MacArthur ‘Genius’ Awards to two experts on aging

Two aging experts have picked up the recently announced and highly prestigious MacArthur Genius Award, that provides a $100,000 no-strings attached award each year for five years.