Callie Care Collects $500K for Voice AI Development
Callie Care, providers of a proactive phone-first voice artificial intelligence agent that calls seniors daily to help fight isolation, manage everyday needs, and stay connected to their families and care teams, closed a $500,000 pre-seed funding round.
The company's voice AI companion connects with older adults through daily wellness check-in phone calls. It books transportation, handles grocery and medication orders, schedules appointments, adapts to their personalities, remembers context from previous conversations, provides emotional support, and enables gentle wellness monitoring. Callie Care also keeps older adults mentally stimulated, introducing new topics, sharing interesting facts and exercises that help maintain curiosity and cognitive resilience. Each interaction is linked to the individual's health profile, routine, and personal network of family members, doctors, and caregivers. The system uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to remember past conversations and personalize each interaction, while integrating real-world context, such as weather and news, to make conversations natural and relevant.
Powered by multiple specialized AI models, it 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 organizations, the platform flags health signals, like signs of pain, depression, or cognitive changes, and detects practical needs like shopping, appointments, or home help before seniors ask.
"Our mission is to ensure no senior feels alone. The debate is usually framed as AI vs. human caregivers. We think that is the wrong question. There are not enough people to care for aging Americans, and no hiring scenario closes the gap. We think this is one of the most under-told threads in US healthcare right now, and that is the gap we built Callie Care for," said Yury Palevich, co-founder and CEO of Callie Care, in a statement.
As a part of its long-term strategy, Callie Care is developing passive voice biomarker analysis to detect early signals of cognitive decline from speech patterns. Research shows this approach can achieve up to 90 percent sensitivity, compared to 30 percent for traditional screening, potentially identifying changes years before clinical diagnosis. With up to 80 percent of mild cognitive impairment, and more than 40 percent of dementia cases remaining undiagnosed, and an average up to a five-year diagnostic delay, earlier detection through passive voice monitoring represents a major opportunity for preventive intervention, the company said.
Early results show strong traction for Callie Care: Since launching last October, more than 8,000 users have tried the service, and 85 percent of engaged users asked to keep receiving regular calls. Average call duration is 10 minutes, with total senior dialogue exceeding 730 hours. Additionally, 44 percent of conversations include older adults voluntarily discussing health conditions, medications, or symptoms, and 28 percent of calls reveal negative emotional states such as sadness, anxiety, or loneliness.
The new funding will facilitate product development, scale user acquisition, build the technical infrastructure for advanced cognitive monitoring, and establish enterprise sales to home care agencies and senior living communities. As it grows, the company plans to add more practical functionality and turn Callie Care into a full-featured AI assistant for older adults.