# Oneva

COVID-19 fuels demand for FBI background checked care for working remotely & returning to work

## Elevator pitch
Today's adults juggle caring for aging parents and children while working full-time. Oneva makes finding trusted in-home care easy with our platform to find, book, and pay high-quality caregivers as an employee benefit. Last year, we finished a year-long pilot at Microsoft. As a result, several other large Fortune 100 companies, plus the Finnish and Japanese governments, showed interest in Oneva. Now that we built our tech, we’re ready to close contracts on companies in our pipeline.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/oneva
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:23736
- Last updated: 2026-06-17T05:01:38Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-18T03:07:14Z

## Quick facts
- Potential unicorn size ROI in a huge market served by a certified black owned business
- COVID-19 increases demand for in-home care
- Microsoft's GM Benefits and Mobility built the Onēva Concierge Care platform collaboratively with us since 2014
- As of February 2020, 102 Filice Brokers began selling Oneva to its customers and inked three enterprise deals
- Patents: one awarded for “Creating Trust and Safety and the In-home Care Market” and a second pending for an AI “
- Closing the career pay equity and gender gap requires women have more access to trusted care
- Caregivers will earn a living rate
- Dollars spent with inclusive IBO on the Oneva Platform stimulates economic communities of all

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:17305: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## Story
Awarded a patent for “Trust and Safety in the Occasional In-Home Care Market”, Onēva Concierge Care is an enterprise grade, GDPR compliant technology platform comprised of:a web application for HR department and Onēva Concierge use, the OnēvaMe native application for employee customer use, and the OnēvaPro application for Caregiver use. In aggregate, these applications allow employee customers to simply and easily select and book repeat care in as few as a dozen clicks saving up to 11 hours per week to find caregivers who may or may not comply with regulations. A live Onēva Concierge is also available 24 x 7 at 800.971.3053 to meet customer needs.

## FAQ
1. **As far as I can see, the demand for the firm's services is much less in question than your capacity to recruit and retain high-quality care providers. Staffing is a critical challenge across the eldercare sector, and getting worse both in the US and internationally as the "gre...**
   - Onēva is more than an in-home Concierge Care platform designed to enterprise privacy, security and accessibility standards, it’s designed to win the Worker war. Living wages, including tips, focus on worker safety and a job ladder for those prepared and ready are our mission. Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/245112428
2. **Great concept and one that is definitely needed. I had a few questions: 1. How does Oneva pre-screen client homes for safety and what does that entail? 2. How do you see the legal landscape changing, if at all, re: employer-employee relationships and any possible risk that the...**
   - 1. A client intake meeting occurs once and first at the location where Care is provided typically the client’s home. Safety for both Client and worker is the goal. The rest is Secret Sauce. 2. Worker Reclassification is inevitable and Onēva’s business model takes that into consideration. I can honestly say it was one of the factors I considered in pivoting to Onēva Concierge Care offered as an Employer Provided Benefit-as opposed to being just another consumer focused/designed two way Care ma...
3. **Hi Anita, Just a couple questions on the financials: 1. The offering statement says that you plan to raise more capital in 3 months. How will that occur? 2. The offering statement says the company has been financed with $1,519,500 in convertibles; however, this does not appear...**
   - We plan on raising additional capital to ramp enterprise contracts using another convertible note. The $1,519,500 convertible note totals include the $141,000 in related transactions as convertible notes. In the course of reviewing numbers to answer your question, it was immediately clear that all the issue dates (and two of the expiration dates) in Form C are incorrect. I will correct Form C with Wefunder (as it's locked to me now). The correct issue dates are Note 1: 1/31/2015; Note 2: 8/19...
4. **Hi Anita, Did you know that your LinkedIn profile does not have your time as CFO at Seagate? Thanks, Alan**
   - I worked at Quantum and was cfo of its desktop hard disk drive division ($3B+) which was acquired by Maxtor and subsequently by Seagate.
5. **What are your biggest reoccurring expenses?**
   - Engineering and insurance.

## Team
- Anita Gardyne (CEO and Co-Founder)
- Robert P. Gardyne (CTO and Co-Founder)
- Will Carpenter (Engineering Manager)
- Ronald Colombo Jr. (Sr Software Engineer)
- Mariia Choban (QA Engineer)
- Ariel Karlin (Head Concierge)
- Patrik Korzinski (Software Manager)
- Joseph Latu (Sourcer Support)

## Q&A
- Q: Hello Anita, are there any updates for investors? I’d love to have an update know how the company is getting on. Thank you.
  - A: Sparkle, we'be been sending investor updates through email. if youre not getting them, please let me know. I'll post now too
- Q: Thanks Anita, for the quick response and the additional info.
- Q: Hi, it appears you have a fantastic business and a wonderful opportunity for investors. Is this company still raising money? I ask because it no longer shows for me on Wefunder. I have to Google "Wefunder Oneva" to then click on a link that takes me to the "Oneva followers" page. That's how I was even able to submit this question. If still raising capital, when will the round close? Thanks!
  - A: We are still raising funds and only from accredited investors at this time. Please email me at Anita@Oneva.com to learn more. ​ Happy holidays!
- Q: Where in the US are your caregivers - looking for suburb of Philadelphia
  - A: Caregivers are able to join the platform in the 9 counties that comprise the SF Bay Area plus parts of Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado and Placer Counties. The technology can grow to any city in the US to help bring trusted care to families.
- Q: If worker causes damages or causes death, are Oneva liable?
  - A: Sorry it took so long to respond. Thanks for considering an Oneva investment. Oneva's insurance broker (with us since our 2014 start) wrote this for me to post: “The caregiver is responsible first and foremost for damages (s)he causes. Oneva carries a $1/2M General Liability and Professional Liability insurance policy that is in place, which includes hired and non-owned liability coverage auto say in case of an auto accident while a caregiver is driving a client in their own car. This same policy protects Oneva, again in, if an accident occurs while in the client's home, such as a caregiver slip and fall. We also have a $5M excess liability policy to extend over the base policies in the event of a major incident/lawsuit.” I hope this answers your question. Please ask again and I'll respond faster if you've more questions. Care involves contracts and insurance. Being strong in both is a business necessity. Oneva's core business and platform objective is delivery of quality, repeatable care experiences. Unlike buyer-seller matchmaking platforms that masquerade as care delivery businesses, Oneva really is a Care provider, regulated by Trustline http://trustline.org. Have a great day!
- Q: It seems like your closest competitor is Bright Horizons which has been around for 30 years and already provides services similar to yours to major corporations. What do you do differently, if anything? Or are you doing the same thing and simply believe that the market is large enough to support a second provider?
  - A: Onēva is different from Bright Horizons in many ways. At Onēva we believe every Onēva caregiver deserves to earn a living wage. That’s $15/hour. AND every Onēva Caregiver has an opportunity to earn a tip for delivering great customer-centric service. Oneva is a technology company at its core and designed to use its patent pending Concierge Care platform to deliver FBI background checked caregivers offering a variety of in-home services, available 24x7, to large numbers employees. Onēva Concierge Care is not limited to back-up (only care to get you to/from work) like Bright Horizon. And we do not plan to build/rent brick and mortar/on-site Care facilitates like Bright Horizon. Our tech allows employees to view, book and pay for FBI background check Care from a platform designed to enterprise privacy, security and accessibility standards so that client data is as protected as the loved ones in our care. It also allows companies to offer a stipend to some or all employees. We are very different from competitors in the fragmented care market and absolutely believe there is room for multiple market entrants. Care.com’s SVP Strategy told me he’s never seen a competitor enter the care market as we have. And he’s right. I hope I answered your questions. If not, please ask again. Thanks for considering investing. Best, Anita
- Q: What quality of care promise is Oneva making to its customers with regard to caregivers? Do you just do a security background check, or do you also vet quality of education and experience? What provisions are in place to prevent a caregiver from building up a customer base through Oneva and then breaking off on their own? How is the Oneva product protected from imitation? Are the patents held by the CTO owned by Oneva? Who on the executive team has experience managing a benefit provider?
  - A: Bridget, thanks for considering investing. I hope I answer all your questions. If not, please ask again and I’ll endeavor to do better. 1.Care standards are customized between the Client and Onēva during the Client Intake. The rest is secret sauce. 2. The FBI and CA DOJ do the background checks. They just tell me who passes and who doesn’t. Onēva staff verifies that all Onēva caregivers workers comply with all requirements necessary to comply with state/local/federal standards/regulations, including personal reference and education verifications to verify work history. Our technology platform by design clearly distinguishes verified data. Client feedback including giving or withholding a tip and other feedback loops drive better behavior fast. Earnings tips for great service helps align Client and Caregiver goals: delivering an exception experience! 3. Aside from violating contract terms and risk being denied continued access to the platform, Clients who cheat by paying a caregiver off the platform wouldn’t be paying for their services using a corporate subsidy, payroll deduction, or a bank/credit card. Securing Flexible Spending Account (FSA) reimbursements would be difficult at best too. A Caregiver can’t pull Onēva Clients because Clients love Onēva and need us to help them with work-life balance. And there is some secret sauce here too. 4. Onēva is a software platform and any software is subject to replication in some form even with patents. That said, Onēva is also a set of complex, nuanced work flows developed by 4 years operating a 24x7 care business with real elders, working Moms, and housecleaners. We add something special that comes with delivering a quality service as our passion/mission. 5.Both pending patents are owned by Onēva 6. Since 2014, Onēva CEO Anita Gardyne has been mentored by Fred Thiele, GM Benefits-Microsoft. Since 2015, Anita has also been mentored by some of the best in Benefits including Burton Goldfield, Ceo Trinet, a Benefits Company. Burton IPO’d his Benefits company and gives great guidanxe. And Unexpectedly, yesterday, he posted this about me in LinkedIn: Anita Gardyne you are too kind!  I am always excited to speak with you.  Your energy and enthusiasm is inspiring.  I am so proud of what you have accomplished.  You are a great CEO!  Please keep it up and reach out to me anytime. So while while current staff does not have direct experience, we have an exceptional Advisory team that do bring Benefits know-how and from the Buyer and Seller perspective. I hope I answered all your questions. Please ask again if I missed something.
- Q: What are your biggest reoccurring expenses?
  - A: Engineering and insurance.
- Q: OK, I just had the impression you were the Chief Financial Officer of Seagate not the CFO of a division of Quantum March 2000 - Feb 2001 which was officially acquired by Maxtor April 2001 which was then acquired by Seagate in Dec 2005.
- Q: Hi Anita, Did you know that your LinkedIn profile does not have your time as CFO at Seagate? Thanks, Alan
  - A: I worked at Quantum and was cfo of its desktop hard disk drive division ($3B+) which was acquired by Maxtor and subsequently by Seagate.
- Q: Hi Anita, Just a couple questions on the financials: 1. The offering statement says that you plan to raise more capital in 3 months. How will that occur? 2. The offering statement says the company has been financed with $1,519,500 in convertibles; however, this does not appear to include the $141,000 in convertibles in related transactions, under #26. Is that correct; so the total would be $1,660,500? Thanks again
  - A: We plan on raising additional capital to ramp enterprise contracts using another convertible note. The $1,519,500 convertible note totals include the $141,000 in related transactions as convertible notes. In the course of reviewing numbers to answer your question, it was immediately clear that all the issue dates (and two of the expiration dates) in Form C are incorrect. I will correct Form C with Wefunder (as it's locked to me now). The correct issue dates are Note 1: 1/31/2015; Note 2: 8/19/2015; Note 3: 11/27/2016; Note 4: 2/14/2017; and Note 5: 8/31/2017. The expiration dates are two years from the issue date.
- Q: Great concept and one that is definitely needed. I had a few questions: 1. How does Oneva pre-screen client homes for safety and what does that entail? 2. How do you see the legal landscape changing, if at all, re: employer-employee relationships and any possible risk that the caregivers Oneva uses will be reclassified as employees? 3. As the platform expands to different markets, which may have different views on caregivers as either contract or employees, would Oneva classify all caregivers the same across the country, or would you wish to keep as many as possible on a contract basis as opposed to employees? Thanks
  - A: 1. A client intake meeting occurs once and first at the location where Care is provided typically the client’s home. Safety for both Client and worker is the goal. The rest is Secret Sauce. 2. Worker Reclassification is inevitable and Onēva’s business model takes that into consideration. I can honestly say it was one of the factors I considered in pivoting to Onēva Concierge Care offered as an Employer Provided Benefit-as opposed to being just another consumer focused/designed two way Care marketplace. There is a role for a care subsidy and it can come from an Employer, an Insurance provider, a government program, etc. 3. Our platform is designed for regional adaption. We’ll do what makes sense for each geography and set of customers (enterprise, Client and worker). Onēva’s global mission includes workers earning living wages plus tip regardless of employment status as employee or contractor.
  - A: I’m not seeing a new question and hope my earlier response met your need. Thanks for thinking of investing in me.
- Q: As far as I can see, the demand for the firm's services is much less in question than your capacity to recruit and retain high-quality care providers. Staffing is a critical challenge across the eldercare sector, and getting worse both in the US and internationally as the "grey tsunami" approaches. As you secure more and larger employer contracts, how will you be able to scale up the supply of care providers to match demand, especially in markets with high cost of living?
  - A: Onēva is more than an in-home Concierge Care platform designed to enterprise privacy, security and accessibility standards, it’s designed to win the Worker war. Living wages, including tips, focus on worker safety and a job ladder for those prepared and ready are our mission. Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/245112428