Digital Health Founders is a Santis Health series featuring one-on-one conversations with leaders from across Canada’s digital health ecosystem. From transformative startups to public sector changemakers, these episodes explore how innovators are shaping the future of care through collaboration, technology and bold thinking.

In this episode, we sit down with Adrian Schauer, Founder and CEO of AlayaCare, Canada’s leading software provider for the home care sector.

Adrian shares the story of AlayaCare’s founding and growth, the key challenges and opportunities for digital health in Canada, his own experience as a Canadian innovator growing both here and abroad, and where he sees the digital health landscape going in the future.

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Adrian Schauer, Founder and CEO, AlayaCare

Adrian Schauer is the founder and CEO of AlayaCare, a home healthcare software company that has grown to over 600 employees in eleven years and is delivering its disruptive solution across the globe. AlayaCare’s purpose is to enable the type of care that we would all want our loved ones to receive at home rather than in a hospital or long-term care facility. By combining virtual care tools with the supporting software for in-person homecare, AlayaCare is leading the industry through a transition from fee-for-service to value-based care.

Adrian is a serial technology entrepreneur. Prior to AlayaCare, Adrian built two mobile software companies, both of which were leaders in their respective markets before being acquired. Adrian is an active Angel Investor and sits on the boards of several companies including fast growing technology firms.

In 2016, Adrian received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Emerging Entrepreneur category in Quebec, and, more recently, AlayaCare has been named a Deloitte Technology Fast50 winner 4 years in a row, securing the #37 position in 2022 and the 17th spot on the 2021 Start-up 50 ranking of Canada’s Top new Growth Companies as published by Canadian Business and Maclean’s.

Adrian is the co-founder of Madiro, a charitable organization created to support innovative solutions to the health problems in low-income countries. He holds a Master of Applied Science from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Engineering from Queens University.