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.

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.

Social Finance is a non-profit with 15 years’ experience incubating, delivering and scaling social impact ventures; they bring together deep subject matter expertise with technical and financial rigour to tackle entrenched challenges. Their expertise spans healthcare, health technology, design research, service design, data and digital, impact investment and commercialisation.

In collaboration with Challenge Works, Social Finance will provide a range of support during the Finalist phase, from user-centred design to systems support and business development.

PUBLIC is a digital transformation partner committed to helping the public sector turn innovative ideas into practical solutions. They have a wealth of experience supporting the testing, adoption and scaling of early stage health tech SMEs and innovators in the public and private sectors, and with consumers.

Digital Care has a vast array of experience from two decades of leading digital innovation in the health sector. They offer implementation support to help deliver digital health tech solutions, working directly with SMEs.

In collaboration with Challenge Works, PUBLIC and Digital Care will provide a Scaling Support Programme to Finalists.

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, in collaboration with Challenge Works, Social Tech Trust provided 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 supported the Longitude Prize on Dementia by providing  innovators with technical support on cloud deployment.

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 supports 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.

Cordis Bright were commissioned by Innovate UK to carry out a process evaluation of the Longitude Prize on Dementia initial entry and Discovery Awards. The process evaluation aimed to find out how the processes, implementation and delivery of the Discovery Awards worked.