Business Wire · Apr 2026
Optum Arcadia partnered with Kivo Health to expand at-home pulmonary rehab and care in California, highlighting Kivo’s AI-enabled virtual care platform and home-based COPD care model.
AI-powered virtual care for chronic lung disease
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Kivo Health is a YC-backed San Francisco telehealth company delivering AI-powered, insurance-covered pulmonary rehabilitation and chronic lung disease care for people with COPD through home-shipped kits, live therapist-led sessions, and payer partnerships.
Primary product
Insurance-covered virtual pulmonary rehabilitation and chronic COPD care
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Sub-industry
Telehealth pulmonary rehabilitation / chronic respiratory care
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)
Seattle, Washington, United States (in-office hiring location)
Business model
insurance-covered virtual care
B2B2C partnerships with health plans and health systems
Medicare/Medicare Advantage reimbursement
value-based care / outcomes-based contracts
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$12.8M
Latest round
Series A · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$5.1M
Dec 2025
Jan 2024 · MassMutual Ventures
Mar 2023 · Liquid 2 Ventures
Feb 2023 · Y Combinator
Jan 2023
People & investors
Founders
Co-Founder & CEO
Work & culture
Mission-driven, AI-first startup culture that emphasizes fast execution, direct work with founders, and in-office collaboration for Seattle engineering roles.
Compensation
Public engineering postings advertise roughly $160k-$260k base salary, plus equity, healthcare, 401(k), and unlimited PTO; at least one senior role lists $200k-$260k base and 0.15%-0.25% equity.
Benefits
Healthcare
401(k)
Unlimited PTO
Product & market
Pricing
Insurance-covered, reimbursement-based B2B2C care program sold to payers/health plans and delivered to members/patients
Differentiators
- —Home-shipped Kivo Kit with monitoring equipment
- —Live therapist-led virtual pulmonary rehab
- —Insurance-covered / Medicare-supported program
- —Rapid scheduling and no Wi‑Fi requirement via cellular-connected kit
- —EHR-integrated workflows for physicians and population-health teams
- —AI-supported care coordination and outreach
Technology
Python
Django
TypeScript
React
React Native
Docker
Google Cloud
LLMs
AI agents
Customers
Medicare Advantage and other health plans
health systems
physicians
population health teams
individuals with COPD / chronic lung disease
Competitors
Carda Health
Wellinks
Medvivo
Plushcare
Firefly Health
FamilyWell Health
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$2.1M ARR (GetLatka estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
4.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2025
Latest news
Priority Health / Business Wire · Dec 2025
Priority Health said it partnered with Kivo Health to expand access to virtual, at-home COPD care across Michigan for members.
Business Wire · Jun 2025
Stanford Health Care tapped Kivo Health to help expand access to virtual pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD patients and support value-based care.
Kivo Health blog · May 2025
Kivo Health said a peer-reviewed study showed positive results for its virtual pulmonary rehabilitation approach.
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