Our Partners

Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading dementia charity. It is a vital source of support and a powerful force for change for everyone affected by dementia.

The Alzheimer’s Society has contributed £3.55 million to the prize programme. In addition, the prize has received generous support from UK donors through Alzheimer’s Society, in particular: The Hunter Foundation, CareTech Foundation and Heather Corrie.

Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency, helping UK businesses to grow through the development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive and easy to navigate.

Innovate UK have contributed £3.6 million to the prize programme.

At Challenge Works we design and create challenge prizes to help solve the world’s biggest problems, from health to finance to climate change and more.

For more than a decade we have successfully set over 81 challenges with a total prize pot of £160M, working with innovators finding radical solutions across the world.

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.

Throughout the Discovery Phase of the prize, Social Tech trust will provide technology and data support to all innovators to help them develop working prototypes of new assistive technologies to help people living with dementia remain independent for longer.

Further details around the partnership can be found in our blog here.

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  innovators with support such as skills-building, technical support and guidance, innovation sessions and mentoring.

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.

CABHI will be supporting the prize by providing access to their wide network of users (people living with dementia and carers) in the US & Canada, as well as through providing personalised webinars for our cohort.

The London School of Economics (LSE) will conduct an independent evaluation study in the finalist phase (September 2024-November 2025) with the five finalists, evaluating the effects of technologies on the lives of people living with dementia, and the resources needed to achieve those effects.

Cordis Bright have been commissioned by Innovate UK to carry out a process evaluation of the Longitude Prize on Dementia initial entry and Discovery Awards. The process evaluation aims to find out about how the processes, implementation and delivery of the Discovery Awards are working. This will help to inform the continued delivery of the programme and similar future investments.