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Welcome to Kintsugi

We are thrilled to introduce you to our cutting-edge voice biomarker technology that is poised to revolutionize mental healthcare. 

Kintsugi is the art of repairing fractures in ceramics with gold. What once was broken becomes stronger and more beautiful. We apply this philosophy to mental health, developing technology to fill the gaps in behavioral health infrastructures and scale access to mental health care. 
COMPANY OVERVIEW

Kintsugi is a clinically validated voice biomarker technology that harnesses the power of AI and voice to detect signs of depression and anxiety. A flexible, end-to-end behavioral health solution, Kintsugi Voice helps payors, providers and healthcare partners conduct mental health screenings accurately and at scale.

Founded in 2019 by two ambitious women, Grace Chang and Rima Seiilova-Olson, shared a common challenge in accessing quality mental healthcare services. They combined their strengths to create voice biomarker technology that has the power to positively impact the lives of billions around the world. 

Kintsugi has raised $28M to date, with a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners in 2022 and $8M seed funding led by Acrew Capital and the National Science Foundation in 2019. The Bay Area team has received dozens of accolades and distinctions for their AI technology, most recently named to Fierce 15 2023 and Forbes AI 50 in 2022. 

LEADERSHIP PHOTOS

Grace Chang

Founder/CEO

Grace, an artist and builder at heart, flawed and open-minded, generous and persistent, created this company to help all of us grow and flourish.

Grace Chang is the Founder/CEO of Kintsugi. Grace was previously in technical leadership roles at several Bay Area startups including a machine learning company specialized in signal processing for authentication. Grace has been interviewed by the New York Times, MIT Tech in Review, Techcrunch, Forbes, Gartner, The Hill, Financial Times, Crunchbase, Inc., Fierce Healthcare, and more on Kintsugi and its breakthrough technology in voice biomarkers. In addition to receiving multiple National Science Foundation Phase I and II awards for the development of novel AI technology, Kintsugi has been awarded Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 of 2023, Forbes AI 50 for North America and named Gartner's Cool Vendor for Responsible AI.
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Grace Chang

Founder/CEO

Prentice Tom, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Prentice, a pioneer in healthcare, is excited to revolutionize our ability to relieve suffering for two of the most unrecognized and under-treated mental health conditions: depression and anxiety.

Prentice Tom, MD is the Chief Medical Officer of Kintsugi, a pioneering health tech company that has created the first AI supported non-contextual voice biomarker analytic tool for detecting signs of anxiety and depression. Prior to joining Kintsugi, Dr. Tom served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Vituity / CEP America where he led the development of a number of nationally recognized programs including Emergency Department Rapid Medical Evaluation (RME) and EmPATH programs integrating emergency and psychiatric care. Dr. Tom has also served as President of Galen Inpatient Physicians and on the faculty of Stanford Medical School. Dr. Tom received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, completed his residency training in emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was a Kaiser Fellow in health policy and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Tom has participated in numerous medical organizations, including the International Medical Corps (Bosnia) and Emergency International. In his free time, Dr. Tom is an avid skier, cyclist, and Krav Maga practitioner.
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Prentice Tom, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Deepak Ghosh

Head of Product

Deepak believes that mental health impacts everyone in some way, whether it's personally or through a friend or loved one, and is excited to be part of the work that has the potential to change lives by enabling access to mental wellness at scale.

Deepak has over 18 years of experience in software engineering, building products, and scaling teams at various technology startups and at larger firms such as Apple and Amazon. Prior to Kintsugi, Deepak headed Product, Design, and Growth at a financial services startup, helping them grow over 25x during his tenure. Deepak holds a Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California and an MBA from Yale University.
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Deepak Ghosh

Head of Product

Albie Salvatore

Head of Sales at Zus

Albie believes early detection in mental health is key to treatment and management.

Albie spent the last 20 years in Healthcare IT delivering new business growth and building teams with some of the most innovative companies: athenahealth, Blink Health, and Cedar. He played college basketball at Plymouth State University and studied Computer Science at Boston University. Albie lives in New Hampshire with his wife and 2 kids where they spend most of their time along the coast on their boat or hiking in the white mountains.
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Albie Salvatore

Head of Sales at Zus

Albert Ihochi

Head of Strategy and Operations

Albert believes that mental health is criminally underserved in today’s global society and is excited to scale mental health to those in need, having had firsthand experience with family members who have had to deal with depression and anxiety.

Albert has developed and launched multiple new products for $B brands in healthcare at Abbott and new software applications at CAS. Albert received his MBA from The Wharton School of Business and also has a Masters in Materials Science & Engineering from Stanford University. He lives in Columbus, OH, and enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, playing soccer, and traveling.
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Albert Ihochi

Head of Strategy and Operations
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Meet the team

TESTIMONIALS

Our partners are seeing the difference

"I enjoy the simple, clean user interface and the reviews make me feel confident that I would find a reliable therapist.”

Marketplace Member

Kintsugi offers a real path forward for all of us in healthcare: providers, payers and patients too for the first time, make meaningful progress in a critical area that has seemed beyond our grasp. That is what masterful innovation accomplishes.

Large Payor

Chief Medical Officer

Kintsugi’s voice biomarker technology can help us make a quantum leap in the care of patients with mental health disorder by facilitating acquisition of unbiased data in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Steven Bibevski, MD

Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon - Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital

With Kintsugi's software integrated with the Pega platform, providers and payers will now be able to address mental health on every call on which Pega is used, potentially benefiting millions of Americans.

Kelli Bravo

VP, Healthcare and Life Sciences Strategy and Solutions at Pega

There is an enormous mental health crisis in pediatrics with and without chronic illness. We need ways to diagnose, follow and intervene on a large scale. Kintsugi provides one of the most innovative and advanced approaches to begin to do this.

Robin Deterding, MD

Chief Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University of Colorado - Children's Hospital Colorado

With Kintsugi’s software integrated with the Pega platform, providers and payers will now be able to address mental health on every call on which Pega is used, potentially benefiting millions of Americans. Kintsugi will provide crucial mental health information on calls where Pega is present, which allows for immediate and appropriate action.

Kelli Bravo

VP, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Strategy and Solutions at Pega

With Kintsugi’s software integrated with the Pega platform, providers and payers will now be able to address mental health on every call on which Pega is used, potentially benefiting millions of Americans. Kintsugi will provide crucial mental health information on calls where Pega is present, which allows for immediate and appropriate action.

Kelli Bravo

VP, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Strategy and Solutions at Pega

With Kintsugi’s software integrated with the Pega platform, providers and payers will now be able to address mental health on every call on which Pega is used, potentially benefiting millions of Americans. Kintsugi will provide crucial mental health information on calls where Pega is present, which allows for immediate and appropriate action.

Kelli Bravo

VP, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Strategy and Solutions at Pega

With Kintsugi’s software integrated with the Pega platform, providers and payers will now be able to address mental health on every call on which Pega is used, potentially benefiting millions of Americans. Kintsugi will provide crucial mental health information on calls where Pega is present, which allows for immediate and appropriate action.

Kelli Bravo

VP, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Strategy and Solutions at Pega

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CASE STUDY

Proven results

 In a recent pilot study with a large partner, Kintsugi Voice successfully identified 40% more patients with some level of depression vs. PHQ-2. Not just in a binary output, but by level of severity. This means you can provide the right level of preventive behavioral healthcare at the right time for each and every patient.

RESEARCH

Clinically validated

At Kintsugi, we train and validate our voice biomarker AI models by conducting clinical trials with prestigious academic institutions and collaborating with top experts and research partners in healthcare.

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