How Kin Health is Giving Patients a Record of Their Own Care

Kin Health, a free app that allows patients to remember and act upon doctors’ advice, led by Arpan Parikh, Amit Parikh, Kyle Alwyn, Doug Hirsch, Trevor Bezdek, and the team, has raised 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 a consumer health platform centered around the physician-patient conversation, beginning with a free app that records medical visits and converts them into clear, actionable summaries that can be easily shared.

Despite decades of healthcare technology investment, the patient experience has changed little. Patients are still expected to absorb critical information during stressful moments, resulting in only 49% of medical recommendations being accurately recalled after visits, while nearly half of treatment plans are forgotten entirely.

Healthcare innovation has long focused on providers through tools for documentation, billing, and clinical decision-making, while the patient experience has remained underserved.

Kin addresses this gap with a free app that captures physician-patient conversations, generates clear summaries and next steps, and builds a longitudinal health record that can be shared with caregivers and family members.

“You need to experience the problem to truly build a solution for it. Provider conversations can be both powerful and overwhelming,” said Amit Parikh, MD. “Patients want to leave appointments with a clearer understanding of their health and the next steps ahead. Kin is designed to make that possible.”

“The most important moment in patient care is the conversation with a doctor. Adherence, follow-through, and outcomes all depend on whether that conversation is understood,” said Arpan Parikh, MD, CEO of Kin Health. “Until now, that moment has remained largely unaddressed for patients. Kin was built to change that.”

“We spent a decade proving that consumer health could become a meaningful business without charging patients,” said Hirsch. “Kin represents the next evolution of that vision, beginning earlier in the care journey.”

Like GoodRx, Kin will remain free for patients, with revenue generated through specialist referrals, lab services, and prescriptions that naturally follow medical appointments rather than from the patients themselves.

“The best consumer health products reduce friction without asking patients for anything in return,” said Alwyn, who also serves as CTO. “The focus is on building tools that help patients follow through on their care, with success tied directly to patient outcomes.”

Kin will use the seed funding to expand its consumer product, enhance its health record capabilities, strengthen its clinical quality engine, and begin rolling out care navigation features that turn its understanding layer into an action layer for patients and their families.

“Patients in the US attend around one billion physician appointments each year, yet have historically left without a reliable record of what was discussed,” said Natalie Dillon, Partner at Maveron. “It is one of the most universal friction points in healthcare, and the team is uniquely positioned to address it.”