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About KITOGO

Built by clinicians,
for clinicians.

We started KITOGO after watching a triage nurse work an 11-hour shift without a break. Calls stacked up. Acute cases got buried. Routine questions ate the bandwidth that should have gone to the patients who needed it most. We built the system we wished she'd had.

Healthcare has a paradox: the patients who need attention most often wait longest, while clinical staff spend their time on calls that don't need clinical judgment. KITOGO doesn't try to replace clinicians — it removes the work that was never supposed to be theirs in the first place.

Every protocol we ship is designed with nurses. Every escalation path is reviewed by emergency physicians. And every line of code is audited to the standard your security team expects.

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2023
Founded in San Francisco
$24M
Series A · Andreessen Horowitz
42
Team members across clinical, eng & ops
14
Healthcare networks live in production
The team

People who've been on the call.

We've all worked inside healthcare — as clinicians, as engineers, as operators. We know what breaks and why.

SO

Sarah Okonkwo, MD

Co-founder & CEO

Former ED attending at UCSF. Stanford Med. Built and sold a clinical decision-support startup in 2021.

RP

Raj Patel

Co-founder & CTO

Ex-Anthropic and Google Health. Led voice AI infrastructure at a Y Combinator healthcare unicorn.

EW

Elena Vasquez, RN

VP of Clinical Operations

15 years as a triage nurse and clinical informatics lead at Kaiser Permanente. Designs every protocol.

MK

Marcus Kim

Head of Security

Former CISO at a top-10 health system. CISSP, HCISPP. Owns SOC 2 and HITRUST programs end-to-end.

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Clinical advisory board

The people who keep us honest.

Our clinical advisors review every protocol update, escalation path, and acuity-mapping decision before it ships to production.

Dr. Patricia Hayes, MD, MBAFormer Chief Medical Officer · Cleveland Clinic
Dr. James Rourke, MD, FACEPED Director · Mass General Brigham
Linda Chen, RN, PhDChief Nursing Informatics Officer · Sutter Health
Dr. David Okafor, MDPediatric Emergency Medicine · CHOP
Press

What they're saying.

STAT News
"KITOGO is proving that clinical AI can be both rigorous and deployable — a rare combination in healthcare."
February 2026
Modern Healthcare
"The triage startup that actually works: how KITOGO earned the trust of 14 health systems in two years."
January 2026
Healthcare IT News
"ESI-aligned, protocol-faithful, and HIPAA-native from day one. KITOGO is setting the bar for clinical voice AI."
November 2025