{"id":95326,"title":"Kaigo Health - The AI Care Workforce That Looks After Grandma \u0026 Grandpa","tagline":"Keeping patients healthy at home by automating follow-ups, check-ins, and monitoring that catch problems early.","body":"**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.\\\n\\\nhttps://youtu.be/c2BLsZJtZSg\n\n**The Problem**\n\nAfter every visit, patient care falls apart between systems.\n\nFollow-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.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nKaigo 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.\n\nKaigo **helps providers scale outpatient care management 100× without scaling headcount**, driving fewer readmissions, higher quality scores, and stronger value-based performance.\n\n**Vision**\n\nKaigo 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.\n\nWe’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.\n\n**Our Story**\n\nWe 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.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95326\u0026key=user_uploads/549368/10d07369-f920-467c-af8c-ffdf828ef817)\n\n\\\n**The Team**\n\n**Peter** **Chien, CEO**\n\n* Led neurosurgical robotics sensors, algorithms, and mechanisms at Neuralink\n* Founded Zero2One, UIUC’s primary startup incubator launching 50+ ventures\n* 600+ hours field work across hospitals and senior communities\n\n**Lukas Klaiber, COO**\n\n* Software engineer from Stanford and TUM; built and scaled software at ServiceNow and SAP\n* Founded Stanford Founders; largest graduate entrepreneurship group at Stanford with 1,500+ members\n* Lifelong advocate of preventative health; broke the German bench press national record through biohacking\n\n**Kazuki Shin, CTO**\n\n* Designed large-scale perception and simulation systems for autonomous robots at NVIDIA, MIT, BMW, Amazon, and Sony PlayStation\n* Developed humanoid robots for homecare, authoring 12 peer-reviewed papers at top IEEE robotics conferences\n* Fashion runway photographer featured in ELLE Magazine for NYFW SS25, capturing collections from leading designers and fashion houses\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe’d love warm intros to:\n\n* Healthcare providers\n* Angel investors\n\n🔗[ ](http://www.lunabill.com/)https://kaigohealth.ai \n\n📩 [founders@kaigohealth.ai](mailto:founders@kaigohealth.ai)\n\nThanks for the support!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95326\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/9814261f-88f6-4c5c-90cc-015141e131b4)\n\n","slug":"OnW-kaigo-health-the-ai-care-workforce-that-looks-after-grandma-grandpa","created_at":"2025-11-09T06:54:28.070Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T23:02:24.578Z","total_vote_count":26,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OnW-kaigo-health-the-ai-care-workforce-that-looks-after-grandma-grandpa","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=95326\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/9814261f-88f6-4c5c-90cc-015141e131b4","company":{"id":30869,"name":"Kaigo Health","slug":"kaigo-health","url":"https://www.kaigohealth.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/59741bf929b644ae6eee61f3e03439f598f3ceeb.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"Healthcare","tags":["Health Tech","Digital Health","Healthcare IT"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30869"}}