kelaHealth, Inc.
AI-powered API that delivers patient-specific predictive insights and recommended interventions for surgical care
- Sector
- Digital health
- Headquarters
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- Founded
- 2016
- Latest Form D
- $2M, Aug 2022
- Total capital
- $5.5M
- Federal grants
- $1.6M
- 2 awards · 2017–2019
- Sector median 0 awards
- Private capital raised
- $3.9M
- 3 Form D · last Aug 2022
- 51 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 3rd filing$2M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$1.8M
- Federal grantNSF · Phase II · SBIR Phase II: An adaptive machine learning-based platform to improve surgical quality and patient outcomes$1.4M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$75K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase I · STTR Phase I: Development of a Machine Learning Platform to Predict Surgical Complications$225K
Node area is scaled to amount. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.
Federal first
15months
from kelaHealth, Inc.’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Jul 2017
- NSF · $225K
- First Form D · Oct 2018
- $75K · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 1 award
An association in public records, not a cause or a prediction.
Standing in Digital health · 818 companies
Line = median- Federal contracts#53 · top 6%
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Founders and team
Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants- Bora ChangResearcherExecutive Officer, DirectorLinked by $1.6M in grants as PI
- Dennis McWilliamsDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Zhifei SunDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
No granted patents are on record.
USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.
Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Regulatory activity · Digital health
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
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