Longitude Prize on Dementia
CrossSense has been awarded the £1 million Longitude Prize on Dementia
We are pleased to announce the winning team of the Longitude Prize on Dementia is CrossSense, an innovative solution designed to help people living with early-stage dementia maintain their independence.
The £4 million+ Longitude Prize on Dementia was created to drive the creation of personalised, technology-based tools that are co-created with people living with the early stages of dementia, helping them live independent, more fulfilled lives so they are able to do the things they enjoy.
CrossSense has been awarded the £1 million grand prize for its pioneering smart glasses solution with built-in AI-powered assistant that identifies everyday objects and guides people living with early-stage dementia through daily activities.
Learn more about the winning team
Other partners
The Medical Research Council (MRC) funds research at the forefront of science to prevent illness, develop therapies and improve human health.
The prize has received generous support from three UK donors through the Alzheimer’s Society: The Hunter Foundation, CareTech Foundation and Heather Corrie.
Challenge innovator outreach support by:
North America
AgeWell (Canada) is a unique Canadian network that brings everyone together to develop technologies and services for healthy aging. We’re also training the next generation of innovators in this field, and making Canada a world leader in technologies that help aging populations everywhere
AARP (USA)is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older to choose how they live as they age.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, Canada) is Canada’s federal funding agency for health research.
Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI, Canada), powered by Baycrest, helps innovators develop, disseminate, scale, and promote adoption of promising innovations in the aging and brain health sector.
MEDTEQ+ (Canada)’s mission is, through collaborative, industry led projects, to accelerate innovation and position, on a global scale, products and services developed by the Canadian medical technologies industry, thereby generating major economic impacts while improving healthcare systems for the ultimate benefit of patients in Canada and around the world.
UK and EU
Social Tech Trust The UK’s leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech. Social Tech Trust is a charity who challenges themselves and others to think differently about the relationship between tech and society. They see a world where social transformation is the driving force behind tech and provide the investment and support needed for high potential social tech ventures to grow and scale their social impact.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. AWS is supporting the Longitude Prize on Dementia through providing the most promising innovators with skills-building, technical support and guidance, innovation sessions and mentoring.
