K4Connect, the leading provider of enterprise technologies for senior living communities, has raised $8.9 million in a new investment round co-led by Bryce Catalyst and AVP (AXA Venture Partners), with continuing support from other existing investors, including Intel Capital, Forté Ventures, Topmark Partners, and the Ziegler-Linkage Fund. This latest round brings the company’s total funding raised to $39 million and will be used to drive further adoption in the senior living market, while continuing to rapidly advance its patented FusionOS integration technology  and K4Community Engagement Suite.

Along with the new funding, K4Connect also announced today that Mike Weller will be joining the company as the Chief Operations Officer. Mike has been working with K4Connect over the last year and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in client success, data analytics, and operations. “Mike’s experience in client success and in creating value in data-rich environments is a natural fit in the evolution of our company as we look to use data to drive operational insights and efficiencies for our customers, while improving the lives of the older adults who we ultimately serve,” said K4Connect Chief Mission Officer and CEO, F. Scott Moody.

“Since our founding, K4Connect has sought to put the power of the best in enterprise technologies into the hands of senior living operators. Addressing this need has never been more important as the population of older adults continues to rise amidst an ongoing national caregiver shortage,” added Moody. “We are thrilled to continue to deliver on that mission with the continued support of our existing investors, and welcome Bryce Catalyst’s Cary Burch to our board.”

K4Connect’s FusionOS technology is the industry’s first and only enterprise-class operating system that provides a “many-to-many” API integration capability. FusionOS enables senior living operators to seamlessly integrate new and emerging technologies and leverage critical health and behavioral data across connected systems and applications to optimize caregiver workflows, lower costs, and improve resident care. While the industry has seen significant growth in technologies that address many of senior care’s most prevalent issues, senior living operators can only unlock the full potential of data-rich technologies by deploying enterprise solutions that enable them to strategically integrate innovative technology services at scale.

“K4Connect’s approach to the senior living market is rooted in its unique enterprise technology expertise long sought after by senior living operators. The company’s enterprise platform provides the foundation for senior living operators to undergo a digital modernization to improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of caregiver services now and into the future. We’re excited to invest in helping to make that vision a reality,” said Bryce Catalyst President and CEO, Cary Burch.

“K4Connect’s technologies and vision have never been more important to the health and well-being of the world’s aging population,” said Manish Agarwal, a General Partner with AVP, a current investor in the Company. “If anything, the pandemic accelerated the need for senior living technology, and K4Connect is the only company we’ve seen that can bring all the current disparate applications together into a single enterprise system where data is no longer siloed and can be tapped for its full value in operations and care. We’re excited to continue working with the K4Connect team to find ways improve the lives of the one billion people they hope to serve around the world.”

To learn more about FusionOS or K4Community, a suite of Community engagement applications and associated user-friendly interfaces, visit www.K4Connect.com.

About K4Connect

K4Connect is a mission-centered healthtech company delivering the best in technology and solutions to providers serving older adults and those living with disabilities. The company’s patented FusionOS technology and award-winning K4Community engagement suite serve tens of thousands of residents and staff in senior living communities across the United States. With K4Connect, operators can better serve the needs of today’s residents and staff and drive operational efficiencies, while future-proofing their technology investments.

About Bryce Catalyst

Bryce Catalyst is a unique investment company with a focus on high growth sectors. Bryce Catalyst is managed by highly recognized software operators with proven track records of growing software & technology enabled companies. As operators for operators, Bryce has an affinity for closely held and operator-owned companies; and believe that beyond profits, aligned interests and a shared purpose are true measures of a successful partnership. For additional information, visit http://www.brycecatalyst.com.

About AXA Venture Partners

AVP (AXA Venture Partners) is a global venture capital firm investing in high-growth, technology-enabled companies, with €1.3bn of assets under management through four pillars of investment expertise: early stage, growth stage, late growth and fund of funds. Since its launch in 2016, AVP deployed capital across 60 technology companies in Venture and Growth stages in the US and in Europe. With offices in New York, London and Paris, AVP helps companies scale internationally and offers portfolio companies unique business development opportunities to further accelerate their growth. AVP is part of AXA IM- Alts, the alternative investment business unit of AXA IM.

RALEIGH, N.C., and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — October 13, 2022 — K4Connect, senior living’s leading integrated enterprise technology platform enabling the best in care, services and hospitality for older adults, and Vayyar Care, a global leader in automatic fall detection and remote monitoring, have entered into a partnership to bring next-generation touchless, camera-free fall detection technology to senior living residents and operators across the U.S.

Falls are the number one injury risk for older adults, accounting for tens of thousands of fatalities per year and billions in annual healthcare costs. Today, this problem is further compounded by the rapid decline in the caregiver workforce that supports the fast-growing older adult demographic. To address this nation-wide concern, Vayyar Care will integrate with K4Community, K4Connect’s solution for the residents, staff and operators of senior living communities, to deliver the industry’s most advanced automated fall detection solution available.

Vayyar Care leverages advanced 4D imaging radar technology to deliver instant fall detection and activity data that enables personalized, proactive care management. Each sensor’s wide field of view covers an entire room, operating in all lighting conditions and even dense steam, making it ideal for use in bathrooms where 80% of falls occur. Together with K4Community, the integration will provide senior care operators with a private, passive, low-cost, and proactive resident safety tool that simultaneously alleviates pressure on overstretched care teams.

 “Since its inception, K4Connect’s mission has been to curate and apply cutting-edge technologies to specifically support the underserved older adult population. Right now, technology that keeps residents safe while augmenting frontline caregivers and staff is absolutely critical,” said K4Connect Chief Mission Officer and CEO, F. Scott Moody. “Integrating Vayyar Care with K4Community enables us to bring the best of the best to our community partners today, while establishing a data-driven foundation that can support advanced future offerings built around preventative and predictive care.” 

The K4Community and Vayyar Care integration will ensure resident safety, promote their independence and respect their privacy, while reducing the administrative burden on staff through automated reporting. Vayyar Care passively monitors residents’ surroundings around the clock using ceiling-mounted sensors and point cloud imaging technology, and low-power radio waves that penetrate obstructions, such as shower curtains, ensure visibility at all times. K4Connect applies the same principles of privacy and reliability to its award-winning automated Resident Check-In technology that leverages motion and voice-enabled smart home devices to perform daily resident wellness checks. In large communities, Resident Check-In is automatically performing up to 97% of resident checks, resulting in significant time savings and increased staff efficiency. 

“Partnering with K4Connect represents a significant milestone on Vayyar Care’s journey toward becoming the industry’s leading fall detection and predictive care solution,” said Marc McGrann, US director of sales at Vayyar Care. “Integrating our best-in-class solution with the most forward-looking platform providers is central to our vision of transforming the senior care landscape with data that enhances resident safety and gives caregivers the tools they need to anticipate and address a wide range of health and mobility issues.”

The Vayyar Care and K4Community integration will be available beginning in 2023. 

About Vayyar Care

Vayyar Care’s touchless 4D imaging radar gathers the essential data caregivers need to protect residents, as well as their dignity, privacy, and independence. The solution delivers instant fall detection and 24/7 visibility on room presence, mobility, time at rest, bathroom visits and more. It overcomes the limitations and drawbacks of standard reactive technologies such as hard-to-reach buttons and cords, unreliable mats, underused wearables and intrusive cameras. Vayyar Care is fully interoperable with any nurse call system and care platform, enabling care providers to deliver person-centered, predictive care that enhances outcomes across the board. vayyar.com/care/b2b

For more information, contact Marc McGrann, US Director of Sales: Marc.McGrann@vayyar.com T: +1 919 740 1899

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RALEIGH, N.C., May 4, 2022 – Today, K4Connect, a mission-driven healthtech company integrating the best in technology to serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities, announced its partnership with Knute Nelson, a non-profit aging services and senior living provider serving West Central Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota. This technology partnership brings innovative care and services to older adults in Knute Nelson’s senior living campuses, Autumn Cottages, Crystal Brook, Grand Arbor, Knute Nelson Care Center and Nelson Gables. With K4Connect’s solution designed specifically for older adults, Knute Nelson is delivering premium care and hospitality to over 8,000 residents and clients, and their families each year through their continuum of aging services.

Knute Nelson launched K4Community, the flagship senior living solution by K4Connect, in its communities in early March 2022 and is the first senior living operator in Minnesota to offer the industry-leading technology. With K4Community, residents now have access to digital engagement, communication and informational tooling that keeps them informed with real-time updates and enables greater socialization and connection to loved ones. The challenges of the pandemic over the last two years amplified the urgency for these types of digital resources in senior living, quickly shifting technology investments from amenity to necessity for operators across the nation. 

“As technology adoption in aging services continues to rise post-pandemic, senior living organizations are integrating more tech to meet the demands of residents and caregiving teams. Knute Nelson is leading this charge in Central Minnesota, running an innovative resident care and services program that is underpinned by a strong technology strategy. With K4Community, they’ll have the ability to continuously scale that vision and deliver more informed care with access to enterprise data and analytics,” said K4Connect CEO & Co-Founder, Scott Moody.

Knute Nelson residents now have access to three core K4Community technology modules: K4Community Plus, a comprehensive mobile and web application with a free companion Friends & Family app, K4Community Digital Signage, dynamic digital communications signage, and K4Community Direct Broadcast, a community-owned TV channel that reaches residents directly in their rooms with interactive and static content (fitness, entertainment, community schedules, and more). For community staff, new advanced back-office tooling seamlessly scales resident and community management, creating a more connected and efficient workplace for teams. All of these technologies are powered by K4Connect’s patented operating system, integrating a community’s entire technology landscape into a single comprehensive platform that delivers critical enterprise data insights into resident and staff technology usage.

“We’re committed to supporting the region’s aging adult community by enriching the lives of everyone that we serve. Keeping pace with technologies that can provide real value to our residents is key to making that vision a reality,” said Knute Nelson VP of Operations, Brittney Thoreson. “We couldn’t be more excited to add K4Community to our resident and staff technology offerings at Knute Nelson.”

K4Connect is the leading provider of technologies for senior living residents and staff. Knute Nelson is the company’s first operator partnership in Minnesota, expanding upon its already growing impact in the Midwest. To learn more, visit www.K4Connect.com.

About Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson, a 501c3 non-profit, faith-based corporation, is an innovative leader in senior housing and health care that offers a full family of services to the West Central Minnesota region. For information on Knute Nelson visit knutenelson.org or call (320) 763-6653.

About K4Connect
K4Connect is a mission-driven healthtech company that integrates the best in technologies and services to serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities. We believe meaningful technologies have the power to make the lives of older adults simpler, healthier and happier. Our leading solution for senior living, K4Community, is an ecosystem of smart products and features that help residents live more independently while streamlining staff workflows and driving operational efficiencies for operators. The entire K4Community experience is powered by our patented FusionOS operating system, enabling all of our community partners to finally unlock the value of enterprise data.

Based in Raleigh, N.C., K4Connect is currently serving thousands of senior living residents and staff at continuing care, independent living and assisted living communities across the nation.

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RALEIGH, N.C., March 15, 2022 – Today, K4Connect, a mission-driven healthtech company integrating the best in technology to serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities, announced its expansion in the Southeast through a technology partnership with Cypress Living, the architect of innovative senior living solutions in Southwest Florida. The partnership brings senior living’s most advanced solution, K4Community, to more than 600 Cypress Cove residents, community staff and caregivers. The community is implementing K4Community as part of its evolving digital strategy to drive enhanced, proactive resident care with data-driven tooling and services. 

From in-home service that allows older adults to thrive while aging in place (Cypress at Home) to a flagship independent senior living community (Cypress Cove), the Cypress family of companies is Southwest Florida’s leading innovator of programs, services and residential developments that ensure the health and wellbeing of older adults. “We’ve long seen the value in providing meaningful technologies to our residents and staff. Working with K4Connect is a significant step forward for us as we create a world-class digital experience for our residents, family members and future residents,” said Joe Velderman, Vice President of Innovation, Cypress Living. “K4Community will be the ‘digital front door’ for our residents to interact with their homes, our community, their loved ones and each other.”

RALEIGH, N.C., February 14, 2022 – K4Connect, a mission-driven healthtech company integrating the best in technology to serve older adults and individuals living with disabilities, is leveraging its growth since 2020 to empower more senior living operators, staff and residents with technology and data. As senior living’s appetite for innovation increases, meeting that need with solutions that provide actionable behavioral, operational and health insights is critical.

The pandemic revealed an undeniable need for dependable and scalable resources that can support the older adult population with easy access to important information, socialization tooling, communications and safety. Technology quickly rose in importance for senior living operators with over 80% of long-term care executives increasing investment in innovations that would assist residents – and community staff – with navigating through the challenges of quarantine, visitation restrictions and more. In early March of 2020, K4Connect pivoted its product roadmap and company structure to quickly respond to these immediate customer needs. Expanding the features of its K4Community solution for residents and staff, issuing contactless and remote deployments to ease community onboarding and improving its award-winning automated Resident Check-In safety feature, resulted in the company nearly tripling its member base while doubling its revenue over the last two years.

“The pandemic pulled much of the world to a screeching halt. For us, it served as an opportunity to deliver on our mission of using technology to better serve older adults,” said K4Connect CEO and Co-Founder, Scott Moody. “We prioritized product releases and integrations that solved critical issues for communities, all while lowering costs for our community partners. While the last two years were not without their many challenges, we’re proud of our small part in helping those most often underserved by technology. Now, the opportunity lies within enabling these communities to not only maintain but advance their technology strategies many started during the pandemic.”

With the rapid adoption of essential, yet disparate, technologies over the last two years, senior living operators must have the operational infrastructure to extend the value of these solutions beyond the pandemic need. K4Connect’s FusionOS integration platform transforms these point solutions into a single, cohesive technology system – all while collecting and delivering data-driven insights for operators. With over 40 patents, FusionOS, on which K4Community is built, acts as an operating system for the community, providing a flexible architecture that allows customers to integrate systems and tools needed today, while seamlessly expanding implementations as community and resident needs evolve over time.

To support its mission, K4Connect has raised an additional $12 million in venture funding ($35 million in total) from existing and new investors since the start of the pandemic. The new investors include Forte Ventures, Second Century Ventures (National Association of REALTORS®), and senior living industry leaders, CoastWood Senior Housing Partners President, Daniel Decker, BPOC Founder and Omega Healthcare Investors Co-Founder, William Petty, and RSF Partner and National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Chairman, Kurt Read.

“As operators along the entire senior living continuum look to advance hospitality and care, the need for data to inform resident and staffing solutions is absolutely critical,” said Kurt Read, Principal – RSF Partners and current Chairman of the Board of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care. “K4Connect delivers on this promise of data value for operators with an enterprise platform that not only connects and aggregates data, but delivers actionable insights that inform better care and experiences.”

K4Connect is a leading provider of enterprise technologies designed for senior living community residents and staff teams. As the company looks to expand in 2022, it will initiate its first pilots to broaden its K4Community solution for congregate senior living to support home care recipients, and their caregivers, who wish to age in place. For more information about the company and K4Community, visit www.K4Connect.com.

About K4Connect:
K4Connect is a mission-driven healthtech company that integrates the best in technologies and services to serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities. We believe meaningful technologies have the power to make the lives of older adults simpler, healthier and happier. Our leading solution for senior living, K4Community, is an ecosystem of smart products and features that help residents live more independently, while streamlining staff workflows and driving operational efficiencies for operators. The entire K4Community experience is powered by our patented FusionOS operating system, enabling all of our community partners to finally unlock the value of enterprise data.

Based in Raleigh, N.C., K4Connect is currently serving thousands of senior living residents and staff at continuing care, independent living and assisted living communities across the nation. For more information, please visit www.K4Connect.com.

RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 31, 2022  — Today, Sequoia Living’s Viamonte at Walnut Creek announced a technology partnership with K4Connect, a mission-driven healthtech company integrating the best in technology to serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities. Viamonte at Walnut Creek opened the doors of its state-of-the-art senior living community in December 2020. Today, they have more than 150 residents across independent living, assisted living and memory care.

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Viamonte at Walnut Creek implemented K4Connect’s technology, K4Community, to deliver a next generation living experience for residents and a better-connected workplace for staff. The technology also helped the new community steer through the challenges of the pandemic by increasing resident access to information, keeping residents connected to loved ones and empowering staff with dependable and scalable tooling to ensure residents were safe and cared for.

“K4Community has played a vital role in Viamonte at Walnut Creek’s success during its first year of operation,” says Melody Mitchell, executive director of Viamonte at Walnut Creek. “We leveraged the technology to seamlessly navigate through the continued hurdles of the pandemic with the communications, engagement and resident safety tooling. We’re confident our strong resident adoption of the technology indicates a continued desire for this type of integrated and innovative living experience.”

K4Community is a comprehensive suite of resident and staff solutions built for senior living. Over the last year, Viamonte residents have used the K4Community Plus app to conduct a myriad of tasks. This includes staying connected to loved ones through video chat, messaging, and photo-sharing, which helped curb the harmful impacts of social isolation throughout the pandemic. K4Community Plus also provides easy access to smart lighting features in their homes, improving safety by allowing residents to turn lights on and off on their personal device(s) from anywhere in the home.

In addition, K4Community Plus enables residents to view community events, dining menus, resident directories, entertainment content and more, all of which over 90% of residents are actively accessing. This same content is also provided as a voice-first experience with K4Community Voice, powered by Amazon Alexa.

Over the last six months, the community has seen high adoption and benefits including:

• Daily app users grew by over 50%
• 77% viewed community photos and 65% viewed community shared videos
• A 190% increase in the total number of voice commands
• 84% of residents used the K4Community Voice control feature for smart lighting
• A 200% increase in the number of smart lighting commands

Community staff are also realizing the benefits from streamlined and augmented daily workflows. With the award-winning K4Community Resident Check-In (RCI), the daily resident check-in process is automated for both the resident and caregiving team. Motion-enabled smart home and voice-activated devices automatically alert staff and confirm a resident is active for the day. This non-invasive, passive monitoring is a complete departure from the traditional method of administering this critical daily task, often relying on in-room resident pull cords or meal check-ins. In using RCI, the time to resolve alerts decreased by 79% over the last six months, a reflection of the increased efficiency of the time-consuming process, along with residents feeling safer.

“We designed our technology with a pretty simple yet impactful objective – to help older adults live their best lives,” says K4Connect CEO and Co-Founder, Scott Moody. “In recent times, that has meant using K4Community as a tool and resource to stay safe, connected and healthy during the pandemic. We are thrilled to see how the residents at Viamonte have embraced our technology and look forward to working with the community team to continue to deliver on our mission of serving through innovation.”

K4Connect is a leading provider of enterprise technologies being used by tens of thousands of residents and staff teams across the nation. For more information about K4Community, visit www.K4Connect.com.

About K4Connect
K4Connect is a mission-driven healthtech company that integrates the best in technology to serve and empower older adults and individuals living with disabilities, together with the people, communities and organizations that also serve them. We believe meaningful technologies have the power to make the lives of older adults simpler, healthier and happier. Our leading solution for senior living, K4Community, is an ecosystem of smart products and features that help residents live more independently, while streamlining staff workflows and driving operational efficiencies for operators. The entire K4Community experience is powered by our patented FusionOS operating system, enabling all of our community partners to finally unlock the value of enterprise data.

Based in Raleigh, N.C., K4Connect is currently serving thousands of senior living residents and staff at over 800 continuing care, independent living and assisted living communities across the nation. For more information, please visit www.K4Connect.com.

About Viamonte 
Viamonte at Walnut Creek, owned by Bay Area nonprofit Sequoia Living, includes independent apartments, assisted living units and memory care. The 191 units at Viamonte feature spacious floor plans, modern kitchens, and private patios or balconies. The award-winning design of the community includes $1.5 million in public art on display on every floor and common area. Viamonte is a truly inspired environment to call home. For more information or to schedule a private tour and lunch at Viamonte, contact the sales office at 925-621-6600 or visit online at viamonteliving.org.