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[Music] so connected hero is a social platform that's created for the aging and diverse communities where we bring immersive and engaging content virtually into the lives of older adults to fight against social isolation so we help organizations whether the nursing homes home organizations bring unique culturally programmed events such as mariachi sessions cooking shows guided tours of chicago where older adults can stay engaged based off topics of their interest and we help them um through our digital platform do that

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yeah so my inspiration behind connected hero started way back but my dad had me at 57 years old and so my early 20s i had to really make the difficult decision to move my dad to a nursing home and so early middle 20s i was basically pushed into senior living into a nursing home and that's really what kind of started my my passion for senior living and in activity engagement um my dad was you know felt very lonely wasn't connected enough and wasn't getting enough programming that was

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specific specific to his demographics and also preferences um so that really was what kind of started me started me on the path of working with senior living operators and also providing really engaging programming that's diversely focused for their populations our vision for connected hero going forward is we're creating a place where older adults can age gracefully through fun and engaging programming you can kind of think of us as the peloton of senior living programming where we bring immersive curated programming

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and and it's based off the the demographics and preferences of of our populations the matter revenge fund uh in many ways helped us um our company from making strategic intros to do certain groups in the tech space to helping us out in different ways of identifying ways to use and leverage research arms within within the university bringing this approach of like how do we bring science to our technology obviously we provide programming but how do we bring more science to it tom levi and all the students have

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obviously been are the type of investors i feel like companies like ours really look for as a partnership because it's more than just money that they provide it's actually more strategic guidance also within the space and we're also looking at you know expanding to nebraska so that's another thing too that that we see a lot of value from them yeah so i think it's it's great i think um giving empowering students to restaurant money and real companies gives students a clear insider view

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of entrepreneurship in the us by giving by the students doing interviews um conducting due diligence learning about things that are important for running profitable businesses it's a unique place to be and it's one of those things that um you need real world experience in order to kind of um uh decisions so it's great seeing amazing you know amazing groups empowering students their students to actually invest in real companies um and actually seeing their return on their results um for us we've been able

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to kind of get guidance and as we kind of went into our our tech stars program interviews they they played a crucial part and i was getting accepted into into that program tech stars is a global accelerator in the tech space and so it's been you know great to kind of get that extra help and the students led a lot of that for us yeah if anyone's interested in learning more about us and what we do um you guys can follow us on any social account uh at connectcarehero and we're on instagram facebook twitter

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even tick tock nowadays to learn more about what we do and and get a little more insight on on our progress going forward [Music] you