A community of older adults called the Longevity Explorers are exploring the future of aging, and the intersection of aging and technology.
Our mission is to improve the quality of life of older adults and their families.
What We Do
- We create insights for older adults (published on this website and in our Newsletter) — with an emphasis on pushing off the day at which getting older gets in the way of living life to the full.
- We enable, and lead the Longevity Explorers: a unique sharing, evaluation, and ideation community— made up of older adults (in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s), and their friends, families, and caregivers.
- Sometimes, the community of Longevity Explorers also provide advisory services for companies — who want to develop products and services that older adults actually want, need, and will pay a premium for.
The Underlying Idea
We believe that there is huge potential for development of clever new products and services that will greatly improve the quality of life of all of us as we age.
Unfortunately, all too often the people who understand the problems, and the people who could solve those problems, inhabit different worlds.
We wanted to bring these groups together and work collaboratively to identify and / or help create new solutions to the challenge of living longer, with higher functionality — at costs that are affordable to individuals and to nations.
History
From 2014 until 2024, the Tech-enhanced Life website and the Longevity Explorer community were enabled, operated, and led by Tech-enhanced Life, PBC. In early 2025, we spun out some of Tech-enhanced Life’s activities into a new venture called Longevity Explorers LLC (announcement here).
Tech-enhanced Life, PBC was a Public Benefit Corporation, incorporated in Delaware, USA. This relatively new class of corporation combines the features of a mission-driven, non-profit organization with the focus and innovative spirit that comes from being a for-profit business. As a PBC we were allowed to have a dual purpose: making our shareholders happy, while also focusing on our mission.
The specific public benefit purpose of Tech-enhanced Life, PBC was to improve the quality of life of older adults and their families. This mission is being continued by Longevity Explorers LLC.
We believe in the power of market-driven capitalism as a force for change, which is why we were a PBC rather than a conventional non-profit organization. We are based in Silicon Valley, but aspired to create a global community that can make a real impact on the quality of life of aging people around the world.
Currently:
- This website, and the Newsletter we send out each month, are operated by Longevity Explorers LLC.
- Tech-enhanced Life, PBC is no longer operating.
- You can reach us using the contact form on this website.
- If you are an entrepreneur or product developer and you want help from the Longevity Explorers, tell us what you are looking for here.
Collaborators & Contributors
The Tech-enhanced Life website, with updates via our Newsletter, are the channels though which our community of Longevity Explorers share what we learn with older adults around the world. It is also a platform where experts, evaluators, makers — and others interesting in improving the quality of life as we age — share their learnings.
We publish learnings from our community of Longevity Explorers, as well as insights from domain experts, and original research by our internal analyst team and other collaborators. We especially like to publish explorations by citizen evaluators of product categories, and “hacks” by makers trying to improve their own quality of life, or that of their parents.
Co-Founders
Tech-enhanced Life was founded by three co-founders, who have also been the primary supporters and leaders of this “experiment” since its inception, contributing their energy, time, and funding.
You can see brief “author bio’s” of the three at the links below.