Kaigo Health
AI outpatient care workforce
TLDR; We help healthcare providers care for patients at home by automating follow-ups, check-ins, and monitoring - closing care gaps and catching issues before they become emergencies.
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The Problem
After every visit, patient care falls apart between systems.
Follow-ups, care plan adherence, and patient monitoring are manual, time consuming, and insufficient - leaving patients unsupported, nurses overloaded, and health systems losing billions to readmissions and other penalties.
Our Solution
Kaigo Health builds an AI outpatient care workforce - autonomous agents that continuously follow-up, monitor, and advocate for patients, then report back to their human care teams with actionable insights. All of this is delivered through simple, accessible phone calls with a voice agent specifically designed for older adults.
Kaigo helps providers scale outpatient care management 100× without scaling headcount, driving fewer readmissions, higher quality scores, and stronger value-based performance.
Vision
Kaigo aims to build a new infrastructure for healthcare beyond the 4 walls of the clinic - a layer of autonomous, scalable health monitoring, coordination, and delivery that seamlessly fills in the gaps between our current fragmented system, transforming healthcare into a continuous, ambient part of everyday life.
We’re starting with providers: giving them powerful technology to dramatically expand their outpatient care capacity, thrive under value-based care, and ensure every patient has a proactive, friendly voice looking out for their health between visits.
Our Story
We started Kaigo after seeing how fragile recovery becomes once patients leave the hospital. Our families wanted to stay healthy, yet support faded the moment they got home. We’re building Kaigo so care continues where life happens.
The Team
Peter Chien, CEO
- Led neurosurgical robotics sensors, algorithms, and mechanisms at Neuralink
- Founded Zero2One, UIUC’s primary startup incubator launching 50+ ventures
- 600+ hours field work across hospitals and senior communities
Lukas Klaiber, COO
- Software engineer from Stanford and TUM; built and scaled software at ServiceNow and SAP
- Founded Stanford Founders; largest graduate entrepreneurship group at Stanford with 1,500+ members
- Lifelong advocate of preventative health; broke the German bench press national record through biohacking
Kazuki Shin, CTO
- Designed large-scale perception and simulation systems for autonomous robots at NVIDIA, MIT, BMW, Amazon, and Sony PlayStation
- Developed humanoid robots for homecare, authoring 12 peer-reviewed papers at top IEEE robotics conferences
- Fashion runway photographer featured in ELLE Magazine for NYFW SS25, capturing collections from leading designers and fashion houses
Our Ask
We’d love warm intros to:
- Healthcare providers
- Angel investors
Thanks for the support!
How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
Our mission is personal. Each of us watched someone we love slip through the cracks of today’s healthcare system. Peter’s grandfather suffered three preventable ER readmissions before passing—his ruptured aorta went undetected after missed medications and a complete absence of follow-up care. Lukas’s grandmother, who raised him, deteriorated in assisted living—isolated, depressed, and unrecognizable before passing unexpectedly just days before he arrived. Kazuki’s grandfather battled cancer alone in Japan, cut off from family by COVID-era hospital restrictions—reminding us that healing requires more than medicine.
What we experienced is not rare. It’s the reality for tens of millions of older adults. In ERs, nursing homes, and senior communities where we’ve volunteered, we saw the same patterns: chronic conditions unmanaged, dangerous falls ignored, weeks without human connection, and emergencies that could have been prevented. Aging has become a quiet crisis—fueled by staff shortages, fragmented systems, lack of technology access, and stigma about growing old.
We’ve invested 600+ hours on the ground working with older adults to deeply understand their’ needs, motivations, and barriers. Our team brings full-stack software, AI/ML, and hardware expertise from Neuralink, Stanford, and NVIDIA, along with operating experience leading major organizations like Zero2One (largest startup group at UIUC), Stanford Founders (1,500+ members), and Covalence (2,000 volunteers across seven universities)—this gives us the tools needed to lead transformation in this space.
We’re here because we believe older adults deserve independence, dignity, and a healthcare system that truly cares—and we’re building Kaigo Health to make that the new standard.
What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
Our vision is to transform healthcare into a continuous, preventative, and home-based experience. We start by enabling high touch outpatient care for Medicare providers, supercharging value-based care. This builds consumer trust and a proprietary data layer, and leverages existing provider distribution networks to later phase in more advanced ambient sensing and care delivery technologies (e.g. home robot companions) for 24/7 personal health management - bringing healthcare to the home while hospitals focus on acute care.
