What You Should Know
- The Funding: Sage, an integrated care platform for senior living and skilled nursing, has raised a $65M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total capital to $124M.
- The Market Crisis: The senior care industry is currently short 1.8 million licensed caregivers and suffers from a staggering 79% turnover rate. Meanwhile, 72 million Americans will reach retirement age by 2030.
- The Tech Solution: Sage is deploying predictive AI to shift the industry from a reactive posture to a preventative one. Its Sage Detect engine analyzes daily activity patterns (like sleep changes and bathroom frequency) to identify fall risks before adverse events occur.
- The Workflow Integration: Sage unifies data from fragmented Electronic Health Records (EHRs)—including PointClickCare, Yardi, ALIS, and ECP—into a single, real-time dashboard, vastly reducing the cognitive load on caregivers.
- The Hard ROI: Sage-powered communities are already reporting a $275 increase in Net Operating Income (NOI) per resident per month, a 50% reduction in falls, and 50% faster response times.
The $65M Pivot to Prevention: How Sage is Using AI to Rewire Senior Care
By 2030, one in five Americans will be of retirement age, yet the caregiving workforce is fundamentally unequipped to handle the surge. The industry is short 1.8 million licensed caregivers, and the ones currently working are burning out at a staggering 79% turnover rate.We cannot simply hire our way out of this crisis. We have to fundamentally rewire how caregivers operate.
Today, Sage announced a massive $65M Series C funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives to do exactly that. The company is actively replacing the fragmented, paper-and-pager infrastructure of skilled nursing and senior living facilities with an AI-powered operating system designed to predict medical crises before they happen.
“Every caregiver I talk to says the same thing: current tools are not built for how care actually works, contributing to chaotic environments that fail both caregivers and residents,” said Raj Mehra, Co-founder and CEO of Sage.
Sage Detect: From Reaction to Prediction
Historically, the technology used in senior care has been strictly reactive. Caregivers are alerted after a resident has fallen, after a condition has severely deteriorated, or after an ambulance has been called. Sage is utilizing its new capital to accelerate the deployment of Sage Detect, its AI-driven predictive engine. Instead of waiting for an emergency pull-cord to be yanked, the software analyzes subtle daily activity patterns. By tracking leading indicators such as sleep disruptions, nighttime wandering, and increased bathroom frequency, Sage can flag high-risk residents to the care team, providing the crucial lead time needed to intervene and prevent an adverse event.
According to the company, this proactive model reduces falls by 50% and improves caregiver response times by 50% compared to the industry average.
Unifying the Caregiver Workflow
Predictive analytics are useless if the data is buried in a clunky software interface. In most senior living communities, caregivers are forced to toggle between multiple, disconnected systems to piece together a single resident’s health status. To solve this, Sage acts as a central nervous system. It pulls data directly from leading Electronic Health Records (EHRs)—including ALIS, August Health, ECP, PointClickCare, and Yardi—into one unified, real-time care view.
This streamlined workflow is particularly vital for skilled nursing facilities, which operate under some of the most demanding clinical and regulatory conditions in healthcare. Sage drastically reduces the cognitive load on an already overwhelmed workforce by surfacing alerts, risk signals, and resident-specific context exactly at the point of care.
“This investment allows us to put caregivers at the center of innovation — by delivering a platform that provides real-time intelligence, and by convening an inaugural summit to ensure their voices and expertise drive the future of the industry,” noted Raj Mehra, co-founder and CEO of Sage.
