For investors
Building the coordination layer for the future of care.
Care needs more people than it can hire. Kinote starts with multilingual care communication and coordination. Our longer-term ambition is to connect people, workflows, existing care systems and compatible robotics.
The opportunity
Rising demand. Stretched teams. Fragmented information.
Demand for care is growing as populations age, while providers face persistent workforce constraints. A meaningful share of carers' time goes into coordinating and documenting work rather than direct care.
Kinote targets the coordination gap between those pressures: the requests, conversations and handovers that connect people around care.
What backs the idea
Signals so far
Y Combinator is looking for this
YC's Fall 2026 Requests for Startups includes “AI for the Aging Population”: voice-first technology that keeps older people safe, independent and connected, and coordinates their family and carers around them. Kinote's multilingual voice requests and family and carer coordination are aimed at the same problem. [1]
Clinical guidance
A consultant geriatrician advises us on care workflows and resident safety.
Founders who live it
Both founders' grandmothers are bed-bound and struggle to communicate with carers who speak a different language.
Next proof point
We're looking for care homes in Bath to pilot with us, with response times and minutes saved per carer measured from day one.
The market
A growing need with no time to spare
The number of people needing care is rising faster than the workforce. Every task we take off a carer goes back into care.
360k+
People living in care homes in England, counted in December 2025.
DHSC provider statistics [2]
3.6m
People aged 85 and over projected in the UK by 2049, double the 2024 figure.
ONS population projections [3]
1.71m
Adult social care posts in England in 2024/25, filled and vacant.
Skills for Care, 2024/25 [4]
Long-term vision
The path to robots and physical AI in care
Robots in care will need to know what each resident needs, when, and how urgent it is. Kinote builds that record from the first day, through every request, reply and task.
Robotics
Robots are entering care
Care robots are already in UK pilots, from home care visits to companionship in care settings. They need a system that tells them what to do. [5][6]
Now
Communication, records and task routing
Bedside requests, automatic answers, priority lists, family updates and care notes, in any language. Each task goes to the right carer, device or family member at the right time, with every response logged.
Later
Robots and physical AI
The same task layer hands suitable jobs to robots, like fetching a drink or a blanket, while carers keep the work that needs a person.
Why this team
Engineers with a personal reason to solve this.
Kinote's founders Shiv and Ruz are two Mechanical Engineering students at the University of Bath. Their training shapes a practical approach: systems thinking, integration and solving the problem in front of them.
The motivation is personal. Both founders have grandmothers who are bed-bound and struggle to communicate with carers who speak a different language. Kinote began with the question of how that gap could be closed.
Sources
- Y Combinator, Requests for Startups Fall 2026: AI for the Aging Population
- DHSC, adult social care provider statistics, quarterly update to December 2025
- ONS national population projections, reported by AgeTech World
- Skills for Care, size and structure 2024/25, via Care Provider Alliance
- Digital Health, Cera's AI robots in UK home care
- TechIntelPro, Realbotix UK care-setting pilot
Contact
Help build the future of connected care.
We'd welcome conversations with investors, advisers, care providers and strategic partners.
Email the founders directly at kinote.connect@gmail.com