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The 411: Millennials Helping Seniors Navigate the Next Chapter of Their Lives
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https://www.renew.com/?utm_source=BuiltinLos%20Angeles
Hello, We're Renew
Retirement shouldn’t be a full-time job. That’s why Renew creates innovative content & tools that simplify the complex decisions retirees face. Our ultimate goal? To be the premier destination for the 10,000+ people who retire each day. With a first-of-its-kind Medicare shopping engine and a rapidly growing online community, we're well on our way.
We’re committed to improving the entire retirement experience. We know you use technology and don’t want to be talked to like you’re on death’s door. Our goal is to take the stress out of retirement, and help a new generation of retirees who aren’t satisfied with the way things are.
We’re modernizing the retirement experience for a new generation:
Retirement today isn’t what it used to be, and we see an opportunity to become the premiere destination for the next big wave of retirees. Today’s retiree is plugged in, active, and digitally savvy. They’re looking for help, and we want to provide it — by using innovative technology to build clear and simple, yet powerful, tools.
The problem:
Over 10,000 people turn 65 every day, facing many critical decisions as they retire. Benefits departments focus on current employees, but have limited resources to support those going through the retirement transition. Left on their own, today’s retiree has to navigate a complex landscape of ads, brokers, and government websites.
Our solution:
Renew is building the virtual benefits department for retirees. Using modern technology, we will help our users manage their health, wealth, and time in a way that fits seamlessly into their lives. We started with a health benefits platform in California, and we’re expanding to cover more aspects of retirement for people across the U.S.
At Renew, we believe retiring shouldn’t be a full-time job. Fixing it is. Our team is well-suited to the challenge. We have years of experience building consumer-focused solutions for top tech and healthcare companies, including Oscar Health, Google, Microsoft, McKinsey, Hunch, eBay, Tag, and The New York Times. While we definitely work hard, we don’t take our beachside environs for granted. In everything we do, we aim to be as humble and grounded as we are driven and ambitious.
Our vision has attracted investment from Venrock, Nyca, and Expa (founded by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp), and took shape in our first product launch – a technology-driven retirement transition engine.
Get your retirement questions answered:
Retirement is one of the best times of your life. But before you start enjoying it, you have to make a lot of tough decisions. And with all the complex and conflicting information out there, it can be tough to figure out what’s best for you.
Dive in with our Quick-start Retirement Guide, which breaks down major topics like health, money, and time. We also put together five essential questions you should ask yourself as you prepare for the next phase of your life. Like all of our resources, it’s stress-free (and free-free), and there is no obligation to enroll in a plan. You’ve got nothing to lose by adding our Quick Start Guide to your retirement toolkit.
The future of retirement: Meet a senior software engineer behind Renew’s proprietary tech platform
BY JOHN SIEGEL
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
As more and more baby boomers prepare to retire, the relative lack of a comprehensive, tech-based tool to help retirees manage all aspects of their retirement is becoming increasingly obvious. Founded in 2016 by Kevin Nazemi, a co-founder of healthcare disruptor Oscar Health, and Tony DeGangi, formerly of Hunch and eBay, Venice-based Renew is a platform that helps retirees stay updated on everything from health insurance to wealth management.
Recently, Built In LA spoke with Mike Verderese, a senior software engineer for the startup — which was recently named to Built In LA's 50 Startups to Watch in 2018 — about being first to market, the dynamics of the engineering team and what LA has that New York City can’t offer.
What attracted you to Renew?
I’ve been doing software development for about eight years now, and the part I love most about it is that I can build just about anything from a blank screen. Up until Renew, I had mostly been building silly consumer products that weren’t really making a difference. Working at Renew was a chance to build something that could help people at one of the most confusing and vulnerable times in their lives. I also had worked with Tony DeGangi, our CTO, for a few years, so I had a lot of trust in him.
Renew is one of the first companies to create a tech platform to improve the retirement process. What’s it like being part of a team addressing challenges that will affect millions of people?
Working in a space that has been generally devoid of tech startups has given us a big advantage in being industry shapers, as opposed to industry followers. We’re building a really unique platform that is unlike most of the current solutions. At the same time, we have to work with companies that are not necessarily used to working with tech startups, so it’s been an incredible learning process for us as well as them.
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