#Startups

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter sits down with Babak Parviz and Daniel Kelly, co-founders of NewDays, a platform purpose-built for older Americans living with cognitive decline to help them reclaim abilities, preserve independence, and keep being themselves.

Babak and Daniel share how their experience at ‪@amazon‬ and ‪@Google‬ led them to apply AI in the most human way: helping people with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with scalable solutions.

They dive into:
The lessons they’ve carried from big tech into startup life
Why building meaningful technology starts with empathy, not hype
How velocity and focus help small teams execute at the pace of opportunity
Why the next wave of generative AI is human-centered, not model-centered