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How Kivira is Using AI to Solve Mental Health Misdiagnoses
Personal Experience Inspired Maria Carmona’s AI-Powered Company to Revolutionize Mental Health Diagnosis
From her earliest days growing up in Venezuela, Maria Carmona, MBA ’25 (XP-94), knew that a close family member was suffering from mental health issues, with unstable moods that could flare up at any time.
“As an example, my parents were remarried and divorced three times,” Carmona says. Despite traveling to the US several times to take her family member to some of the nation’s best hospitals, nothing seemed to work. “The diagnoses ranged from panic attacks all the way up to schizophrenia. They were just based on whatever the clinician knew at the time.”
Finally, when Carmona was 15, clinicians at NYU Langone Health diagnosed her family member with bipolar disorder. With the right treatment, they got better in a matter of months. “All of our lives dramatically changed,” Carmona says.
Over a decade later, that harrowing experience inspired Carmona to create the mental health startup Kivira while studying in Booth’s Sokolov Executive MBA Program. The company’s app supports mental health diagnosis using AI and structured assessments that patients can complete in a primary care physician’s office.
In the last year, Carmona has been on a whirlwind journey. After winning the Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) at Booth, she raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding from Wellstar Health System. In May 2026, Kivira is expected to begin a pilot project with UChicago Medicine, building on early validation work and formal clinical workflows…
Full release here, originally announced May 18th, 2026.
Kin Health Raises $9M to Build an AI Notetaker for Patients
The market for AI notetaking devices has exploded in the U.S., with the category generating over $600 million in revenue last year, according to a Menlo Ventures report. And as startups like Heidi Health and Freed have shown, there’s decent demand for this tech in healthcare, where doctors and clinics see the potential for an AI assistant that can help them keep track of patient conversations, surface health records, and lower their administrative burdens.
But those apps don’t do much for patients, which is why Kin Health is building a notetaker that can transcribe your visits to doctors, parse medical advice, and surface next steps when required. To that end, the startup has raised $9 million in a seed funding round led by Maveron.
The app is similar to a meeting notetaker: You can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the meeting, with the next steps, all of which you share with family and friends if you want to. It also lets you write down questions that you might want to ask during your next visit.
Kin Health says it encrypts all patient data and that summaries are kept private by default. The tool is not HIPAA-certified, as it is a patient-facing one, but it adheres to the same privacy standards, the company said.
The free app is built by physicians Arpan and Amit Parikh, along with Kyle Alwyn, who previously built online prescription service HeyDoctor and sold it to health platform GoodRx. Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek, Co-Founders of GoodRx, are founding partners and executive chairmen at the company…
Full release here, originally announced May 18th, 2026.
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