Kin Health Raises $9M To Give Patients a Record of Their Own Care
Founded by practicing physicians, Kin translates medical appointments into plain language, allowing patients to build a personal health record from the only source that actually works
Kin Health, a free app that allows patients to remember and act upon doctors’ advice, today announced a $9 million seed round led by Maveron, with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Flex Capital, Eniac Ventures, The Family Fund, Pear VC, Watershed Ventures, Foundry Square Capital, and individual investors including GoodRx co-founders Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek, Nabeel Quryshi, Jay Desai, Alex Cohen, Saharsh Patel and more than 30 physicians. The company is building the first consumer health platform designed around the physician-patient conversation, starting with a free app that records medical visits and turns them into easy-to-read summaries patients can easily act upon and share.
Despite decades of investment in healthcare technology, the general patient experience has not changed. Patients are forced to absorb critical information in their hardest moments. The result: they accurately recall only 49% of decisions and recommendations from these visits (38% for patients without a high school education). Roughly half forget their treatment plans entirely.
