A HOLDING COMPANY FOR HEALTH AT HOME

Building the Family of Brands
for Health at Home

Most people want to get care in their own homes. Long Haven Partners is the holding company that builds, buys, invests in and partners with the brands that make that work. Our first brand is NestCara.

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The Fortune Brands model

Fortune Brands is an example of what we want to be: a parent company with solid operating brands underneath it.

Each brand can bring products together into one complete solution for the people it serves.

The holding company is not the product brand. Products live one layer down.

THE HOLDING COMPANY
Long Haven Partners
OUR FIRST BRAND
NestCara
THE DEVICE IN THE HOME
Nest HD
NestCara
NestCara, our first brand

NestCara is the ecosystem that connects healthcare to health at home.

The Nest HD is a small box that plugs into the TV the person already has. It connects them with family, caregivers and their care team.

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Industries We Serve
The business model, in plain words

We do not try to win the whole ecosystem in one shot. We build one layer at a time.

Each layer solves one vertical's pain, deploys into that vertical and takes it.

5 verticals, taken one at a time
1
Non-Medical Home Care

The pain is staffing: agencies can't cover every client around the clock. NestCara answers with two-way drop-in video and monitoring, in one simple unit tied to the agency's back office.

2
Home Accessibility & Mobility

The teams who make homes safe also install smart devices that don't work together. NestCara gives them all-in-one technology that works.

3
OTs & Skilled Nursing

OTs and skilled nursing teams get compliance and nudging between visits, and support through the move home.

4
Retail Health Clinics

Retail Health Clinics already sit right next to healthcare, and they want to reach the customer at home.

5
Healthcare / Primary Care, including hospitals and the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP)

This is the last step. By the time NestCara gets here, the data already speaks healthcare and already lives in the EHR.

The NestCara Partner Network diagram: NestCara and the Nest Home Device in the middle, with Non-Medical Home Care, Home Accessibility & Mobility, OTs & Skilled Nursing, Retail Health Clinics, and Healthcare / Primary Care around it, sharing data in and out.
Health at home

Care is moving into the home. Chronic disease, worker shortages, Medicaid cost pressure and behavioral health needs are pushing it there, and rural communities feel it hardest. NestCara is built for anyone who needs care at home.

Data into the EHR

Homes are full of helpful technology. But if the data is not in the electronic health record (EHR), healthcare does not know it exists, and a doctor will only use data that lives there. NestCara does the heavy lift of turning home data into something healthcare can act on and putting it into the EHR, so doctors and insurers can make better decisions, lower costs and deliver better outcomes.

20% development, 80% deployment

Most startups get stuck building what they think people want, overbuild and take too long to reach the market. We do the opposite. 20% of our effort goes to development. 80% goes to market penetration, adoption and deployment.

The platform and the ecosystem

NestCara gets richer with every vertical, and more data flows toward the EHR. The Nest HD carries two-way communication and telemedicine, carries remote patient monitoring, and acts as a hub for other smart devices in the home. We own the ecosystem and the hub. Partners own the specialized devices.

The Heavy Lift

There is no shortcut. Long Haven Partners takes on the support and the heavy lift, franchise by franchise and practice by practice, so NestCara and the Nest HD become the ecosystem and platform people take for granted.

Why now

The people who need care at home are growing in number, and the system is not built to reach them.

Congress funded the Rural Health Transformation Program with $50 billion over 5 years, across all 50 states. The money comes with KPIs and clawbacks: a state must show results or risk giving money back. It's a tailwind, not the whole story. The need is there with or without it.

73.1M
Americans 65+ by 2030
233
AgeTech companies in AARP's AgeTech Collaborative
FOR INVESTORS
Request the business plan

The October 2026 Master Business Plan lays out the whole picture: the problem, the 5 verticals, the go-to-market plan for each one, the team, and the numbers.

We share it with family offices and strategic partners who understand infrastructure platforms, healthcare complexity and category ownership.

The plan is built on 230+ interviews across manufacturers, healthcare, agencies and all 5 verticals.

The plan answers 3 questions
  1. What problem is being solved?
  2. How?
  3. Who can pull it off?
Best-of-breed partners and acquisitions

Many AgeTech companies make great products for people at home. Most can't get their data into the doctor's system on their own.

We are looking for best-of-breed companies in AgeTech, home safety and care tech that want to grow inside the NestCara ecosystem and come under the Long Haven Partners umbrella. For every capability, we choose on purpose: buy, build, invest or partner.

Partner

We will not build a stove shutoff or a fall detector. We work with the companies that do, and bring their data into NestCara.

Invest

As we uncover more needs, we plan to invest in companies that could become large when their solution lands in the right ecosystem.

Buy

Only when it multiplies the platform: companies that increase the value of the platform, and that the platform makes more valuable in return.

Build

NestCara first: the ecosystem, the tools that run on the Nest HD, and the path into the EHR.

Our first best-of-breed partners
FireAvert

Stove and fire safety, with an automatic shutoff. Their event data flows into NestCara.

Fall Call

Fall detection. Their data flows into NestCara.

We're finalizing the details of the agreements with both.

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Leadership

This team has built, manufactured and deployed home technology before, and has made public programs work on the ground. The job now is to make the complex simple.

Ryan Herd
Ryan Herd — Founder & CEO
Founder

Built and sold Caregiver Smart Solutions in 2024, an AgeTech company with patented AI/ML fall detection. 37+ years in IoT and technology. 6x founder with 3 exits. As mayor of Pequannock Township, he secured more than $50M in public funding. He has led 230+ interviews across the aging and care world.

John McGrail
John McGrail — COO
Operations

7 turnarounds with $300M+ P&L experience. The operator who turns agreements, assets, and state contracts into reliable execution.

Joseph Castonguay
Joseph Castonguay — Chief Strategy Officer
Strategy & Deployment

President of AutoSlide LLC North America for 22 years. Manufacturing, logistics, mobility and accessibility. Deep relationships across rehab and home care. He knows what it takes to move units, crews and training at national scale.

Jim Kitchen
Jim Kitchen — Chief Product Officer
Product & Integration

One of 3 co-authors of the Matter smart home protocol, adopted by Apple, Amazon and Google. He created, manufactured and deployed alarm-industry products at scale, and worked at iControl Networks, which exited into Comcast's Xfinity Home. He makes different technologies work together.

Nicholas Domnisch
Nicholas Domnisch — Chief Technology Officer
Technology & Architecture

CEO and founder of EE Solutions and a member of the Forbes Technology Council. AI and digital health architecture. He helped build breathing devices during COVID and knows how to navigate FDA review.

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Build health at home with us

Whether you invest, partner or build in this space, we would like to hear from you.

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