Kin Health, a consumer health platform founded by practicing physicians, announced a $9 million seed round to help patients better understand and retain information from their medical appointments. The funding round was led by Maveron, with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Flex Capital, Eniac Ventures, Pear VC, and several healthcare and technology investors.
Founded in Los Angeles, Kin Health is building a free app that records medical appointments and converts physician-patient conversations into plain-language summaries patients can review, act on, and share with caregivers and family members. The platform also creates a longitudinal personal health record based on the conversations patients have with their doctors.
The company was founded by brothers Arpan Parikh, MD, and Amit Parikh, MD, both practicing physicians, alongside Kyle Alwyn, founder of HeyDoctor. GoodRx co-founders Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek joined Kin as founding partners and executive chairmen.
Kin Health said the current healthcare experience often leaves patients overwhelmed and unable to retain critical information from appointments. According to the company, patients accurately recall only 49% of decisions and recommendations discussed during medical visits, while nearly half forget their treatment plans entirely.
The company believes healthcare technology innovation has historically focused on providers through tools for documentation, billing, and clinical decision-making, while patients have lacked tools designed specifically for them. Kin aims to address that gap through its always-free application, which captures conversations with doctors and transforms them into structured, easy-to-understand records and action items.
The company said its business model mirrors aspects of the consumer healthcare approach pioneered by GoodRx, with revenue generated from specialist referrals, labs, and prescriptions that follow appointments rather than charging patients directly.
Kin plans to use the new funding to expand its consumer product, strengthen its health record capabilities, enhance its clinical quality engine, and roll out care navigation features designed to help patients take action after appointments.
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“You need to have felt this problem to build the solution to it. We know how powerful – and overwhelming – provider conversations can be. All patients want to leave the exam room with a better understanding of what’s happening in their body and what they can do next. Kin gives them a tool to do that.”
Amit Parikh, MD, Co-Founder, Kin Health
“The most important moment in a patient’s care is the conversation with their doctor. Everything else – adherence, follow-through, outcomes – flows from whether they understood it. So far, that moment hasn’t been addressed for patients. We built Kin to change that.”
Arpan Parikh, MD, CEO, Kin Health
“We spent a decade proving that consumer health could be a real business without charging patients. Kin is the next version of that thesis, starting earlier in the care journey.”
Doug Hirsch, Co-Founder, GoodRx
“The best consumer health products remove friction without asking anything in return. We build tools that allow patients to actually follow through on their care, and only succeed when they do so.”
Kyle Alwyn, CTO, Kin Health
“Patients in the US go to about one billion physician appointments every year, and until now, they’ve walked out of every single one without a reliable record of what was said. It’s the most universal friction point in healthcare, and we couldn’t imagine a stronger team to fix it.”
Natalie Dillon, Partner, Maveron
