Every other day, you can read about a new startup or venture building the next digital solution to change the world.
But more often than not, there wasn’t any problem that needed a solution to begin with. At best, the “solution” aims at digitalization for its own sake rather than having real impact, and the teams behind it are driven by monetary rewards, looking for a quick and easy pathway around the actual hard work of creating a successful business.
In the case of Pal | Digital Palliative Care, things are quite different.
Home care settings in general and the palliative situation in particular present immense challenges for those trying to care for others. First and foremost, there is the emotional toll.
But not far behind lie the practical challenges of caring effectively and efficiently: incorporating the actual care into regular schedules and daily lives, coordinating across multiple people sharing the hands-on care efforts, and most importantly, trying to figure out how to do the right or best thing for people they love and care for.
Pal’s digital companion solution comes as THE most welcome answer here: enabling efficiency (planning and scheduling the care, communicating quickly amongst multiple caregivers, allowing to have the relevant information available instantaneously, etc.) and effectiveness (recording and tracking symptoms and progression to share with other caregivers, including health care professionals, accessing support, helpful information and practical tips on demand, including via an AI-powered search tool that curates, identifies, and provides relevant and reliable search results out of the wildly fluctuating sources on the internet) naturally and simultaneously, without putting any further burden on the user.
Our team at ATHENE Venture Partners is proud and honored to be among the supporters and early-stage backers of this idea and of Pal.
To us, it exemplifies a REAL change of the world for the better, and a REAL solution that has the power to positively affect the lives of millions of people – and of course, it is led and managed by the most compassionate and empathic, and at the same time most driven and effective team we have been fortunate to meet in a long time, with Nara and Azi.
Great things are ahead – go Pal, DO change the world!
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