Kinsa

What Kinsa does

Kinsa is a US-based health technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco that builds internet-connected smart thermometers and a companion mobile application, then aggregates the anonymized temperature and symptom data from those devices into a real-time illness tracking and forecasting platform. Its consumer product line includes FDA-regulated Class II Kinsa Smart Thermometers sold across all major US retailers (Walgreens, CVS, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Amazon) and paired via Bluetooth to the Kinsa mobile app, which provides personalized illness guidance to families. The company's enterprise offering, Kinsa Insights, is a SaaS platform powered by machine learning, epidemiological models, and generative AI that forecasts where and when ED/ICU demand will surge and where retail-pharmacy inventory will be stressed, reportedly up to 20 weeks in advance and ahead of CDC surveillance.

Kinsa monetizes through two principal streams: one-time hardware sales of smart thermometers through retail and direct-to-consumer channels, and recurring SaaS subscriptions for Kinsa Insights sold to hospital systems, retail pharmacies, and CPG companies such as Highmark Health, Allegheny Health Network, CVS, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, Clorox, and Mucinex. The company also operates a ShareASale affiliate program paying 10% commission on thermometer sales and runs community-led school health programs (FLUency, WellTogether) that drive household adoption. The technology stack is protected by three granted US data-insights patents and four industrial design patents, and the company maintains SOC 2 Type II compliance.

In 2024 Kinsa was combined with Healthy Together, under which it continues to operate its existing product lines while extending its population-health and public-sector reach. The company employs between 11 and 50 people and has raised approximately $29.3 million in disclosed venture funding, with FirstMark, GSR Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins as notable institutional investors.

Name

Kinsa

Legal name

Kinsa Health, LLC

Website

https://kinsahealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kinsa builds connected smart thermometers and a companion mobile app that aggregate anonymized illness signals from millions of US households, and sells Kinsa Insights — an ML and epidemiological forecasting SaaS — to hospital systems, retail pharmacies, and consumer health companies for early illness detection.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Connected Health Devices

NAICS

Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing (334510), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519)

SIC

Electromedical & Electrotherapeutic Apparatus (3845), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Thermometers & Temperature Monitoring (Smart Thermometers) (CRACAQAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Remote Diagnostics & Point-of-Care (Connected Testing, Home Lab Devices) (HLACAPAK), Continuous Temperature & Fever Monitoring (Wearable Thermometry) (HLAHACAK), Connected Medical Devices & Wearables (Sensors, Patches, Implantables) (HLACAPAB)

Keywords

• Smart thermometers
• Illness forecasting
• Health analytics platform
• Infectious disease tracking
• Predictive epidemiology

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales: Sale of internet-connected smart thermometers through major retail channels (Walgreens, Best Buy, CVS, Amazon, Target, Walmart) and direct-to-consumer via the Kinsa app store
2. SaaS Subscription (Kinsa Insights): Subscription-based SaaS platform providing predictive analytics and illness forecasting to enterprise customers including hospital systems and retail pharmacies
3. Affiliate Referrals: Affiliate program earning 10% commission on thermometer purchases with 30-day cookie duration through ShareASale network

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Kinsa designs and sells internet-connected smart thermometers paired with a mobile health app for consumer households to track temperature, symptoms, and receive personalized care guidance. The company also operates Kinsa Insights, an enterprise SaaS platform that uses machine learning, epidemiological models, and generative AI to forecast infectious illness spread up to 20 weeks in advance for hospital systems, retail pharmacies, and consumer goods companies.

Product overview

Kinsa offers a portfolio of connected health monitoring products centered on internet-connected thermometers and companion software. The core offerings include the Kinsa Smart Thermometer (FDA-regulated Class II medical device) paired with the Kinsa mobile app for families, and the Kinsa Insights SaaS platform for enterprise customers. The company's technology aggregates anonymized illness signals from millions of households to track and forecast the spread of infectious illness earlier than traditional surveillance systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kinsa Insights: Enterprise-grade predictive health analytics platform that forecasts when and where cough, cold, flu and other symptomatic illnesses will rise, up to 20 weeks in advance.
• Kinsa Health (for Households)

Products and services

• Kinsa Smart Thermometer Internet-connected smart thermometer (FDA Class II medical device) that pairs via Bluetooth with the Kinsa mobile app, allowing users to track temperature and symptoms, and receive personalized care guidance from board-certified clinicians. Sold through major retail chains including Walgreens, Best Buy, CVS, Amazon, Target, and Walmart, and through Kinsa's direct online shop.
• Kinsa App Mobile application (iOS and Android) that pairs with Kinsa smart thermometers to provide symptom tracking, personalized care guidance, and community illness trend information to help families understand and respond to illness. Functions as a product-led adoption driver for Kinsa's smart thermometer hardware.
• Kinsa Insights Enterprise-grade SaaS platform powered by machine learning, epidemiological models, and generative AI that delivers predictive illness analytics to hospital systems, retail pharmacies, consumer goods companies, and other organizations. Forecasts when and where infectious illness will rise up to 20 weeks in advance to support ED/ICU demand planning, inventory optimization, and outbreak response.

Quantifiable outcome

• Flu detection weeks ahead of CDC surveillance
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Healthy TogethercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKinsa Health announced it is now part of the Healthy Together family. This represents a significant merger/acquisition that expands the combined entity's capabilities in population health and early illness detection.
• Highmark HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKinsa is working with Pennsylvania's Highmark Health to predict the spread of infectious disease. Highmark's Senior VP of Chief Analytics Officer publicly endorsed Kinsa's AI and medicine approach for reducing clinical burnout and anticipating customer needs.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Withings: Withings sells a portfolio of connected health devices (smart thermometers, scales, blood pressure monitors, sleep mats) that pair with a mobile app to capture longitudinal health data, making it a direct competitor in the consumer smart-thermometer and connected-health data layer.
• iHealth Labs: iHealth (Andon Health subsidiary) is one of the largest sellers of FDA-cleared smart thermometers and other connected vitals devices in U.S. retail, competing head-to-head with Kinsa in both consumer hardware and the underlying temperature-data network.
• Sickweather: Sickweather applies machine learning to social-media and crowdsourced symptom data to forecast illness outbreaks, competing directly with Kinsa Insights on the predictive-illness-intelligence value proposition sold to enterprises and public-health agencies.
• BlueDot: BlueDot provides infectious-disease intelligence and outbreak forecasting to governments, health systems, and enterprises — a direct functional peer to Kinsa Insights on the enterprise illness-prediction go-to-market.
• Tempdrop: Tempdrop makes a connected wearable thermometer primarily for fertility tracking, sharing Kinsa's connected-temperature hardware + app + data platform architecture for a different but adjacent use case.

Emerging players

• HealthMap: HealthMap (Boston Children's Hospital) aggregates disparate data sources for real-time disease surveillance, overlapping with Kinsa's public-health analytics mission but without a consumer-hardware data-collection layer.

Broad incumbents

• Oura: Oura operates a smart-ring platform that collects continuous temperature, sleep, and readiness data — a broader-scale consumer health data network that could rival or complement Kinsa's household-level illness signals.
• Garmin Health: Garmin's wearables capture temperature, heart rate, and activity data at massive scale and increasingly sell aggregated health insights to enterprise partners, positioning it as a broader incumbent in connected health-data analytics.
• Apple Health: Apple Health aggregates temperature, symptom, and biometric data from hundreds of millions of iPhones and Apple Watches, representing the largest potential threat and adjacent platform to Kinsa's aggregated illness-data model.

Others

• Validic: Validic is a health-data platform that ingests device data (including from connected thermometers) on behalf of payers, providers, and pharma — an ecosystem partner or alternative aggregation layer competing for the same enterprise health-analytics budget as Kinsa Insights.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kinsa
• Xx.com/kinsa
• Facebookfacebook.com/kinsahealth

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors12 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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