Safety first
Every caregiver is background-checked before they ever reach a door. You always know who is coming, and why they can be trusted.
About us
Who is behind Tethr?
Our goal: to make care available the moment a family needs it.
Chapter one
It started at home
For as long as I can remember, I've always wanted to do something big. I found what that was when my grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Watching my own family struggle to get him care is how I realized how flawed the caregiving industry really is. Too many of the companies built to help are run for profit, not for the families who depend on them.
The longer I looked, the clearer it became that this was not our problem alone. Sixty-three million Americans are caring for an elder relative today, about one in four adults, and nearly all of them face the same broken system. Care that is slow, hard to reach, and rarely there when a family needs it most.
Chapter two
Building it anyway
Seeing a problem and deciding to fix it are two different things. When I decided to build something better, most people around me had doubts. A high schooler taking on an entire industry sounds unlikely, and plenty of people told me as much. For a while, I almost let them convince me.
My best friend, Harvey Uyeyama, saw it differently. Where others found reasons to stop, he found reasons to go bigger. He pushed me to stop treating this like a side project and start building something that could actually reach the families who needed it. That was when Tethr stopped being just my idea and started being ours.
Chapter three
Where we're going
We are not here to build a slightly better version of what already exists. We want to change what families can expect when someone needs care. Help that is there the moment it is needed, and a system no one has to face alone.
We want to change the standard the entire industry is held to, and push it somewhere it has never been. We are starting with California, but the goal has never been one city, or one kind of care. We are building toward a world where getting care is simple, fast, and something families can trust, no matter who needs it. It is a big promise to make, and we intend to keep it. This is the way care should have always been.
— Dash Voskuhl Co-founder and CEO, Tethr
What we stand for
Care that shows up.
We built Tethr on a few things we refuse to compromise on, no matter how big we get.
There when needed
Care should not take weeks to arrange. We make it available the moment a family needs it, not whenever a schedule finally allows.
Built on trust
Families are letting us into their homes and their hardest moments. We do not take that lightly, and we work to earn it every single visit.