KARE Technologies operates a digital labor marketplace for health care workers, offering senior facilities and qualified caregivers a platform to post and accept work for hire. Founder and CEO Charles Turner developed the idea after hospitals struggled to get care workers during the 2017 hurricanes, and the rise of COVID-19 further exposed staffing gaps. The company targets chronic staffing challenges in senior care; the release cites that 82 percent of caring communities face such challenges. KARE has experienced rapid adoption in the caring industry, according to its investors and press statements. The company plans to use new capital to support growth and national expansion. KARE’s leadership team includes Charles Turner and Bridget Kaselak, and the company emphasizes customer-driven solutions to address labor shortages. Kare Technologies was launched in 2019 by Charles Turner after his experience managing staffing challenges during Hurricane Harvey and Irma in 2017. The platform lets senior-care facilities post shifts and connects them with vetted, credentialed frontline caregivers who can pick up extra work. Facilities pay a marketplace fee instead of using staffing agencies that take a cut of placements. The pandemic accelerated Kare’s growth and prompted the company to expand features to onboard laid-off or furloughed hospitality workers into roles such as cooks, receptionists, wait staff, and housekeepers. A $1 million in-kind software services grant from Golden Section Financial funded the addition of developers and COVID-mitigation features that limit how many buildings workers can circulate through. Kare is currently used by several thousand workers and hundreds of senior-care facilities, and Turner anticipates availability in all major U.S. cities by the end of the year with international opportunities explored in 2022.

Total raised

$8M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Aug 2021