Kai Health Technology, the AI-powered Performance Improvement platform for emergency medicine, raised $4.8 million seed round led by Distributed Ventures, the venture capital firm that leads Seed and Series A investments in risk ecosystem innovation across health, insurance, and wealth.
Kai Health says the fresh will will help it to activate its proven clinical risk mitigation system for clients, advancing from version one of its AI platform to version two, and positions the company to scale across U.S. emergency departments.
Founded in August 2024, Kai Health has reached enterprise maturity at unusual speed. The company has signed five clients, including three health systems and two medical groups, with contracts extending the platform’s reach to 107 acute care facilities impacting 2.7 million patient visits annually. Between August 2025 and March 2026, seed capital fueled a 350 percent increase in contracted annual recurring revenue while the company secured SOC 2 Type II certification, adding to its SOC 2 Type I and ISO 27001 certifications, with ISO 42001 AI management certification in progress. The platform successfully integrates with Epic, is listed on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, and now processes up to 1,800 medical records per hour on Microsoft Azure and Databricks infrastructure.
“Diagnostic error is not a single risk, it is a cascade. One missed diagnosis raises clinical risk for the patient, financial risk for the system, and strategic risk for the organization, and health systems have never had a way to act on it at scale. The urgency that drives this team comes down to how quickly we can change that, because every week sooner means patients kept safer, providers better protected, and stronger financial outcomes for the health systems we serve. This investment lets us expand our commercial and engineering teams and put that capability in the hands of the largest health systems in the country,” said Brant Roth, CEO and Co-Founder, Kai Health.