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Sage Care

DefunctYC S16

Toronto, CA · 4 known investors

Sage Care connects families with local caregiving professionals who provide in-home support for aging parents.

Also known as Sage Care (YC S16)

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S16)

VLVanessa Lee
Vanessa LeeinFounder

Investors · 4

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$20M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2025

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Sage Care was a Toronto, Canada-based marketplace connecting families with vetted caregiving professionals who provide in-home care for aging parents in their own neighbourhood. The company was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch and is categorized by Y Combinator under the Marketplace and Healthcare sectors.

Y Combinator's directory lists the company's status as Inactive, and an aggregator profile similarly reports an Inactive status with no capital raised and a headcount range of 1-10. Vanessa Lee is listed as the founder. The company's former domain, getsagecare.com, no longer resolves to a caregiving product; the page retrieved today contains unrelated online-gambling link spam, consistent with the domain no longer being operated by the company.

Business model

Marketplace model connecting families seeking in-home eldercare with local caregiving professionals; sources do not disclose pricing, take rate, or other monetization details.

Latest developments

The getsagecare.com domain no longer hosts the company's product and instead serves unrelated third-party link-spam content. Y Combinator and a startup directory both list the company as inactive. Note that a separate, unrelated company also operating under the name Sage Care (sage.care), a Palo Alto, California AI care-navigation platform for health systems founded in 2024, announced $20M in funding in October 2025; that entity is a distinct company and its details are not attributed to this profile.

Full profile — go-to-market, geography, history

Go-to-market

Adult children and families arranging in-home care for aging parents and older adults.

Geography

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with service framed around matching families to caregivers located in the same neighbourhood as the care recipient.

History

The company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch as a Toronto-based marketplace in the healthcare category. Y Combinator's company directory lists Sage Care's status as Inactive, and a third-party startup directory also lists the company as inactive with $0 raised. No funding rounds, acquisitions, or product milestones for this company are documented in the available sources.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Employee count rangeJan 20251-10
Total funding raisedJan 20250 USD

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2016
Participated in Y Combinator Summer 2016 batch

Sage Care was a member of Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch, categorized under Marketplace and Healthcare.

source ↗

Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Sage Care do?
Toronto-based YC Summer 2016 marketplace connecting families with local in-home caregivers for aging parents; now inactive.
Who founded Sage Care?
Sage Care was founded by Vanessa Lee.
Who are Sage Care's investors?
Sage Care's investors include General Catalyst, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Yosemite.
How much funding has Sage Care raised?
Sage Care has disclosed $20M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
Where is Sage Care headquartered?
Sage Care is headquartered in Toronto, CA.