Kanjo

Kanjo (Kanjo Ltd, also referred to as Kanjo Health) is a UK company operating a predictive neuro-developmental platform intended to help parents and clinicians better understand children's mental health. For families, the product centres on a five-minute assessment taken on any device, after which a clinician-approved AI model produces a personalised "Care-Match" of options, specialists and clinicians, plus content and free planning tools such as an affordability calculator and a check-in calendar, and appointment booking [0][1]. For clinicians, Kanjo offers pre-consultation risk analytics and structured medical history, comorbidity prediction, remote monitoring and tracking, patient-to-clinician matching and the ability to invite other physicians to review data or accept referrals. Its clinical range, Insights, covers major depression, generalised anxiety and ADHD and their core symptoms, and is stated to be available as an investigational device [3].

The company describes its approach as combining generative AI with hierarchical Bayesian networks over thousands of data points and decades of pre-existing data, trained alongside domain experts, to build a pre-diagnostic tool for ADHD, autism and their comorbidities, with a stated aim of reducing bias relative to other healthcare models [2][6]. Kanjo states it cannot make formal diagnoses; the intent is to improve the diagnostic journey, giving families personalised content pre-diagnosis and then integrating them into existing clinical pathways [6]. The company also publishes a free parental-support resource library covering school, sleep, neurodiversity, relationships and mental health topics [4].

Earlier public descriptions (2022) framed the product as turning children's games and activities into evidence-based insights and advice for parents, with a long-term goal of building a large longitudinal data set on children's development and cognition to predict autism, ADHD and other special educational needs earlier than currently possible [5]. Founders have also cited possible future applications in insurance risk prediction and paediatric drug discovery [6].

Founding story

Founded in 2021. Co-founder and CEO Sophia Parvizi-Wayne has described two motivations: being diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa at sixteen and subsequently running a UK mental health education campaign, and later receiving a late ADHD diagnosis at 24 that exposed flaws in the diagnostic process, after more than a decade working in mental health policy and education [5][6]. She applied to Entrepreneur First roughly 12 hours before the deadline and was contacted the next morning [7]. She met co-founder Stefan at Entrepreneur First, describing him as bringing the complementary technical skills to build personalised, accessible and preventative solutions [5]. A later account names Sophia Parvizi Wayne and product leader Deepthi Uppala as founders [6].

Business model

Kanjo operates a two-sided platform: parents take an assessment and receive matched care options, content and free planning tools, while vetted clinicians apply via an interest form, are onboarded onto a clinician portal, and receive matched patients along with pre-diagnostic and comorbidity analytics and monitoring tools [0][3]. By 2024-2026 the company had added an in-house care delivery programme onto which it had brought its first batch of patients [6].

Not specified in the sources; certain parent-facing planning tools (affordability calculator, check-in calendar) are stated to be provided at no charge [0].

Traction

Secured its first clients and partners during 2024, won support from NHS DigitalHealth, London, and onboarded a first batch of patients onto an in-house care delivery programme; named to the Startups 100 2026 index at number 83 [6].

Latest developments

In January 2026 Kanjo was listed at number 83 in the Startups 100 2026 index, which reported first clients and partners, backing from NHS DigitalHealth London, investment from KQ Labs / Francis Crick, Entrepreneur First and Access Industries, and the first patients onboarded to an in-house care delivery programme [6].