ventures

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 [...]

Spring is coming: 3 signs the aging market is poised for takeoff

Spring is here, and Aging2.0 – myself and co-author Emily – just spent a busy but enjoyable week in Washington, DC, (although climate change finished off the cherry blossoms before we got there). We went for Mary Furlong‘s consistently good value What’s Next? Boomer Summit, which was held just before the ASA Annual Conference. A lot [...]

A Graying Population Spells Business Opportunity – NYTimes.com

Companies come here to understand their target audience or to have their products, policies and services studied. Often, visitors learn hard truths at AgeLab: many older adults don’t like products, like big-button phones, that telegraph agedness. “The reality is such that you can’t build an old man’s product, because a young man won’t buy it [...]

Snip: Funding Aging Research for Life Extension and Human Longevity

The MaxLife Accelerator Fund. MaxLife addresses the needs in the financing marketplace by: Having Fund Management comprised of Managing Directors with ca. 100 person-years of venture capital experience in “finding and minding” successful opportunities that achieve prominence in their marketplaces, as well as healthy financial returns to investors via Funding Aging Research for Life Extension and [...]