CareOS won third prize at the J-StarX Startup Bootcamp in Osaka, run by UC Berkeley SkyDeck. It is the first startup award for CareOS, and we are proud of the team effort behind it.
What we pitched
CareOS is the operating system for family care. When a parent lives far away, the hard part is rarely the phone call. It is everything after it: remembering what was said, noticing what needs action, getting the right person to own it, and knowing that it actually happened.
CareOS closes that loop. It listens to a check-in, keeps a permissioned memory of the parent's care, turns what needs action into a task with an accountable owner, and shows the family the outcome with where it came from. A person approves every care record. The AI drafts; it does not decide.
The bootcamp
The bootcamp put CareOS in front of SkyDeck's mentors and a cohort of founders from Japan and abroad. It pushed us to answer two questions clearly: who CareOS is for first, and what it does in one sentence. Our answer for the first: families caring for a parent from far away, and the care agencies that already look after them.
What comes next
We are working with care agencies on one workflow at a time: a care update becomes a reviewed record, a family-safe update, an assigned follow-up and a recorded outcome. Alongside that, CareOS Family is helping families abroad stay close to a parent's care at home.
Thank you to UC Berkeley SkyDeck, JETRO, the mentors and judges, and every founder in the cohort. If you run a care agency or look after a parent from far away, we would like to hear from you.