The CareMonster® caregiving app, currently in use by 35 care facilities in Ohio, Kentucky and Texas, aims to improve the quality of care families deliver to their frail, infirm or disabled loved one, either at home or in a long-term-care setting.

Dayton, OH -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/11/2015 -- Caregiving application startup company Care Monster, Inc. has added Courtney Koverman to its staff as its new vice president of account management. She becomes the company's third full-time employee since its founding in 2013.

The company's CareMonster® caregiving app for Android and Apple iOS devices helps family caregivers coordinate their schedules, visits, and caregiving tasks among themselves to help reduce the stress and anxiety that is common to unpaid caregivers.

Although the app is designed as a tool for family members, Care Monster's B2B business model is built around a subscription-supported, co-branded version of the app that is offered by care companies such as nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities and the like to residents' families. Koverman will be responsible for helping care facilities successfully launch and use their customized version of the CareMonster® app in their communities.

Koverman's years of experience working for companies like Capital Senior Living, the Ohio Masonic Home and BrookHaven Retirement Community "give Courtney a unique insight into the mind of our partner communities and the family experience related to long term care," said Michael Eidsaune, Care Monster's co-founder and CEO. "She understands how the CareMonster Caregiving App can support care facilities in their goals of improving patient satisfaction scores and outcomes, while enhancing the care experience for their residents and families."

"My goal will be to create seamless process for on-boarding care providers, and make sure they have all of the resources they need to successful use the CareMonster platform in their communities," said Koverman. "I'll also be recruiting a team of passionate and energetic account managers to help us deliver on our promise to help improve the way families experience care."

Koverman continued, "Families want their loved one to maintain their autonomy, but fear for their safety. This struggle continues even after they enter a community. Consistent communication and the ability to take an honest look back at moods, behaviors, care needs, an so forth are imperative to making educated and coordinated decisions. I believe the CareMonster App can bring balance and peace between the struggle to provide care and still provide freedom for their loved ones."

She added, "The CareMonster App also helps care facilities market their resources and create a compassionate, responsive environment with minimal resources in a day and age when profit margins are shrinking."

About Care Monster, Inc.
Founded by Dayton, Ohio residents Michael Eidsaune and his father-in-law, Care Monster is a technology startup whose mission is to enhance the care experience in long-term-care facilities like nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, assisted living, hospices, childrens' hospitals and adult day care centers by providing family caregivers with trans-formative technology and resources. The company is currently raising capital via a crowdfunding campaign on Fundable.com.

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An equity crowdfunding project posted by caregiving app developer Care Monster, Inc. has trended for a second week on Fundable.com. The company's CareMonster mobile app has been adopted by dozens of care facilities in Ohio, Kentucky and Texas.

Dayton, OH -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/22/2015 -- Caregiving application startup company Care Monster, Inc. has been listed as a "Trending" and "New and Notable" equity fundraise project on the crowdfunding site Fundable.com for the second straight week. Fundable is a business crowdfunding platform that enables start-ups to raise capital from accredited investors, customers, and friends. Care Monster recently completed its seed phase of funding and is seeking $750,000 in start-up capital to expand its workforce and finalize development of the next generation of its caregiving application.

"We're grateful to the staff at Fundable for helping us present our mission and business plan in such a professional way, and for the exposure we've earned as a trending project," said Michael Eidsaune, Care Monster's CEO and co-founder. "Our first investors were also some of our first customers. The value of our caregiver support app was immediately apparent to them, as members of the long-term-care community. The fact that we're receiving such interest from among accredited investors beyond the healthcare field means they recognize the value and potential of our brand. It's extremely gratifying after three years of hard work."

The CareMonster® App for Android and Apple iOS devices helps family caregivers coordinate their schedules, visits, and caregiving tasks among themselves to improve the quality of care they deliver to their loved one, either at home or in a long-term-care setting. Although the app is designed for family members, Care Monster's business model is built around a subscription-supported, co-branded version of the app that is offered to families by care companies. The app is always free for family members to use.

One of Care Monster's first investors, Dr. Robert Banasik, was attracted to the CareMonster App as a way to improve the experience for residents of four nursing homes and an independent living complex operated by his company. "We are delighted to have family involvement with our residents," noted Dr. Banasik. "We are committed to providing as many ways as possible to have family and friends keep close ties with their loved ones. The CareMonster app is a uniquely positive way to keep all involved. This is particularly true of people who are more remote from the facility. We know through our experience that the more a family visits and sees their loved ones the better the result for all concerned."

Eidsaune responded, "Dr. Banasik's leadership at Sanctuary Senior Living has lead to their recognition by U.S. News & World Reports, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and others as some of the best assisted living facilities in the U.S. It's an honor for Sanctuary to offer the CareMonster App to their residents' carers, and an even bigger honor that Dr. Banasik is such a believer in our product and company."

Care Monster, Inc. is part of the prestigious Aging2.0 Academy Startup Incubator Program in San Francisco, and in March received the "Design for All" Award presented by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) at the Impact Pediatric Health Competition, part of SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas.

About Fundable.com
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Fundable.com is the world's largest crowdfunding platform for raising business capital. Since its launch in 2012, over $189 million in funding commitments have been raised on the platform. Fundraising campaigns may reward funders—which may include accredited investors, friends and family—with either goods and services or with equity in exchange for their support. The company was launched by a team of successful entrepreneurs experienced in connecting businesses with investors.

About Care Monster, Inc.
Founded in 2013 by Dayton, Ohio residents Michael Eidsaune and his father-in-law, Care Monster is a technology startup whose mission is to enhance the care experience in long-term-care facilities like nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, assisted living, hospices, childrens' hospitals and adult day care centers by providing family caregivers with transformative tools and resources via an easy-to-use application for Android and Apple iOS devices.

About the CareMonster® App
The CareMonster App for iOS and Android platforms enhances the caregiving experience by helping families coordinate communication, encourages engagement between family members and care facilities, and supports families with caregiving resources as they coordinate the care of an ailing loved one. The app was inspired by a Dayton, Ohio family's struggles to take care of their 93-year-old great-grandmother after she moved to a memory care facility.

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Former TuneWiki director of engineering Jared Fleener will help guide development of the new CareMonster Caregiving App for family caregivers which has been adopted by 35 care facilities in Ohio, Kentucky and Texas.

Dayton, OH -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/10/2015 -- Caregiving application startup company Care Monster, Inc. today announced its first hire after the successful completion of its initial round of seed funding.

Jared Fleener—the former Director of Engineering for the global music lyrics database TuneWiki—has been hired to translate the Care Monster vision of enhanced caregiving experience in to a robust and scalable CareMonster® caregiving application. "I'll be taking the lead on moving Care Monster forward with content changes, app releases, technical hiring, and looking at how best to leverage existing and trending technology," said Fleener.

The company's CareMonster caregiving application for Android and Apple iOS devices helps family caregivers coordinate their schedules, visits, and caregiving tasks among themselves to improve the quality of care they deliver to their loved one, either at home or in a long-term-care setting. Although the app is designed for family members, Care Monster's business model is built around a subscription-supported, co-branded version of the app that is offered to families by care companies. The app is always free for family members to use.

"I could not be more excited to have Jared joining us," said Michael Eidsaune, Care Monster's co-founder and CEO. "I was afraid we would have to go to the Silicon Valley to find a CTO with both the mobile software development and deep startup experience we needed. Fortunately for us, Jared was right here in the Dayton area." Eidsaune continued, "At TuneWiki, Jared led a global team of developers in four countries and helped scale the platform to over 10 million active users in 70 countries. His experience in growing TuneWiki into a well-funded global startup will be invaluable to our brand and long-term vision for the company."

"I am very excited to be joining Care Monster," said Fleener. "I think the application is a great concept for its particular market space. There is a real void in the app world for a family-centered caregiving application, and I think Mike has done a tremendous job thus far taking advantage of that lapse in app coverage. The CareMonster caregiving app is well thought out and really helps people. Having worked in the startup space before, it's really a great and dynamic environment and I can't wait to take that leap and get back in to the exciting day-to-day challenges that lay ahead."

Care Monster, Inc. is part of the prestigious Aging2.0 Academy Startup Incubator Program in San Francisco, and recently received the "Design for All" Award presented by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) at the Impact Pediatric Health Competition, part of SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas.

About the CareMonster® App
The CareMonster App for iOS and Android platforms enhances the caregiving experience by helping families coordinate communication, encourages engagement between family members and care facilities, and supports families with caregiving resources as they coordinate the care of an ailing loved one. The app was inspired by a Dayton, Ohio family's struggles to take care of their 93-year-old great-grandmother after she moved to a memory care facility.

About Care Monster, Inc.
Founded in 2013 by Dayton, Ohio residents Michael Eidsaune and his father-in-law, Care Monster is a technology startup whose mission is to enhance the care experience in long-term-care facilities like nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, assisted living, hospices, childrens' hospitals and adult day care centers by providing family caregivers with transformative tools and resources via an easy-to-use application for Android and Apple iOS devices. The company's equity fundraise is currently trending on Fundable, a business crowdfunding platform that enables start-ups to raise capital from accredited investors, customers, and friends.

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Representatives from AARP presented Ohio entrepreneur Michael Eidsaune’s CareMonster App with the “Design for All” award at a SXSW startup pitch competition emceed by Shark Tank panelist and angel investor Mark Cuban.

Dayton, OH -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/24/2015 -- A caregiving scheduling and reporting application that helps families provide better care for ailing loved ones won the "Design for All" award at the Impact Pediatric Health Startup Pitch Competition, presented as part of the prestigious SXSW Interactive program on March 16, 2015 in Austin, Texas. The CareMonster® App for iOS and Android, developed by Ohio entrepreneur Michael Eidsaune to help his own family, was chosen by representatives of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) as the best interactive healthcare solution designed for people of all generations during the event.

"Getting an award from AARP was a complete surprise, at an event that was focused on pediatric care solutions," said Eidsaune. "But it was great validation for us, since the App was inspired by my family's struggle to care for our great-grandmother. AARP is an organization that I have a ton of respect for, and we were thrilled to have been selected for an award in that extremely competitive venue."

Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban emceed the competition, which included a three-minute pitch and seven minutes of questions and answers for each of the ten finalists. "Pitching in front of Mark Cuban was surreal," Eidsaune shares. "You spend years looking up to the guy, then next thing you know, you're presenting your company to him...Cuban had several questions and even some advice for us. He emphasized that one of our biggest assets is our relationship with care providers."

SXSWi wasn't Eidsaune's first pitching success. In the spring of 2014, Care Monster won the Innov8 for Health Competition. Last November, the company was accepted into the highly competitive Aging 2.0 Academy, a one-of-a-kind Silicon Valley program designed to connect, support and accelerate the top startups in aging and long-term care. Katy Fike, the co-founder of Aging2.0, congratulated Care Monster and Eidsaune for the AARP award, noting that "Aging2.0 is delighted to work with the Care Monster team as they help reduce stress and simplify coordination and communication for families taking care of someone of any age."

Although most app developers market their software directly to consumers, the CareMonster App is designed to be shared with families by hospitals, long-term care, assisted living and rehabilitative care facilities. Care facilities can subscribe to a premium co-branded version of the app that is customized for their patients and promotes their facility's service offerings and resources. "We're already working with care facilities in Ohio, Kentucky and Texas," says Eidsaune. "We'll continue to focus on those relationships as we continue to grow."

The CareMonster App supports family caregivers with a visit and activity calendar, condition reports and care checklists that are shared with every enrolled family member. The App is designed to reduce caregivers' stress and guilt, while helping the ailing loved one enjoy a better quality of care. The CareMonster App is free for end users and is available in the iTunes App Store and on Google Play.

"SXSWi was amazing," added Eidsaune. "I was honored just to be a part of it."

About the CareMonster® App
The CareMonster App for iOS and Android platforms helps families coordinate communication, encourages engagement between family members and care facilities, and supports families with caregiving resources as they coordinate the care of an ailing loved one.

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First-of-its-kind competition to be emceed by billionaire Shark Tank entrepreneur Mark Cuban at SXSW was created by pediatric care leaders to find and highlight health innovation for kids.

Dayton, OH -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/20/2015 -- Dayton, Ohio-based startup company Care Monster will pitch its caregiving app to the nation's top four pediatric care institutions at the first-annual Impact Pediatric Health Startup Pitch Competition to be held at SXSW on March 16, 2015 in Austin, Texas. Care Monster is one of only 10 finalists in the event. The Impact Pediatric Health Competition, scheduled to take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown at 500 E 4th Street, is part of the official SXSW Interactive Schedule. Billionaire angel investor, Shark Tank member, and father of three Mark Cuban will emcee the event.

Representatives of Boston Children's, Cincinnati Children's, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Texas Children's are organizing the competition to find and highlight health innovation for kids. Care Monster CEO Michael Eidsaune will also be pitching to a panel of nationally-recognized venture capitalists and hospital executives.

The competition is a chance for startup CEOs to present how their company is solving the unique healthcare needs of babies, kids, and teens. Each selected finalist will have three minutes to pitch their startup to the audience, followed by several minutes of questions from Mark Cuban and the judging panel.

"We are stunned and grateful to have been chosen as a finalist for The Impact Pediatric Health Competition," says Care Monster's CEO, Michael Eidsaune. "When we developed this caregiving app in 2013, inspired by our own family's needs, we never dreamed it would go so far, so fast. The Care Monster App for iOS and Android is already helping families do a better job of caregiving in Ohio, Texas and Kentucky, and we're in talks with a national non-profit organization that wants a branded version of the app for their constituents."

Eidsaune continued, "People don't generally plan to become caregivers. Most are thrust into the position. Families can find the caregiving role fraught with worry and guilt, and are often frustrated by a lack of effective communication between caregivers and other family members. The Care Monster® app promotes better care for the loved one and a better experience for families. It can also help a sponsoring caregiving facility—such as a hospital, rehabilitation or long-term care center—improve patient satisfaction and engagement."

"I've participated in producing these events in various capacities over the years, and this is by far the best group of innovators I've dealt with yet," said Brian Lang, Impact Pediatric Health event producer.

About Care Monster®
The Care Monster® App for iOS and Android platforms supports family communication, encourages engagement and helps families navigate resources in the care of an ailing loved one. Designed to be shared with families by caregiving facilities such as hospitals, long-term-care, assisted living and rehabilitative care facilities, Care Monster® offers several ways for companies to participate in its platform and interact with the families using it.

About The Impact Pediatric Health Competition
Made possible by Boston Children's Hospital, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Texas Children's Hospital, the The Impact Pediatric Health Competition seeks targeted and innovative solutions that address the unique challenges of pediatrics.

Twitter Resources
The official Twitter username for the event is @pediatricpitch. Hashtags to use are #kidshealth and #sxsw. Follow Care Monster on Twitter: @caremonster and hashtag #assistedloving.

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