Why "Kintsu"
Named after Kintsugi — repairing what's broken, visibly and stronger.
Cancer and dialysis care in India are often fragmented across specialists, centers and paperwork. Kintsu is building two dedicated centers and a shared record — the Passport — to hold that journey together from the start, rather than patching it after the fact.
Kintsugi (金継ぎ) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with seams of gold — treating breakage and repair as part of an object's history, not something to hide. It's the idea behind our name: a fragmented care journey, made whole and visibly stronger where it's been rejoined.
Every seam represents a handoff in care — referral, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up — rejoined in gold rather than left to break.
Where things stand
Building in the open, on a fixed timeline.
Kintsu is pre-launch. Here's exactly what's real today and what's coming next — no vague promises.
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Now
Care Passport in testing
The record-and-coordination platform is built and undergoing internal testing ahead of center launch.
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Now
Angel round closing
Kintsu's angel funding round is active and closing soon, backing the Gurgaon and Jaipur build-out.
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October 2026
Gurgaon oncology center opens
Kintsu's first care center — day-care oncology treatment — opens its doors in Gurgaon.
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December 2026
Jaipur dialysis center opens
Kintsu's second center opens in Jaipur, offering coordinated dialysis care on the same Passport.
How we're building
Clinical discipline, designed in from the first blueprint.
Because both centers are being built from scratch, protocols, escalation paths and documentation standards are part of the design — not retrofitted after opening.
Readiness before treatment
Structured verification of records, approvals and clinical prerequisites before any session begins.
Documented workflows
Role-based actions, timestamps and handoffs recorded through the Passport from day one.
Clear escalation paths
Exceptions route to a named clinical or operational owner, not a general queue.
Built to measure quality
Operational dashboards are part of the Passport, so quality can be tracked from the first patient.
Beyond our own centers
The same system, built to run any center — not just ours.
The Passport is the patient-facing layer of a broader operating system — Kintsu Digital - Oncology and Kintsu Digital - Dialysis — that any oncology or dialysis center in India will be able to license as software, whether or not they're run by Kintsu.
Early-stage & funded
Kintsu Care is an early-stage venture.
Our angel funding round is active and closing soon, backing the Gurgaon and Jaipur build-out. For investor or press enquiries, reach out through our partnerships page.