Post-acute care providers are spending 25 cents of every dollar on administrative tasks rather than patient care, resulting in structural inefficiency that has intensified as private equity consolidation demands operational excellence while caregiver shortages and regulatory complexity reach critical levels. Traditional electronic medical record systems were built for clinical documentation, not workforce coordination, leaving front-office teams drowning in scheduling conflicts, compliance tracking, and hiring pipelines that consume resources without adding clinical value. Arya Health addresses this gap by deploying AI-powered digital agents that sit alongside existing EMR systems to automate non-clinical administration, fundamentally altering the economics of post-acute care delivery. Their specialized agents handle caregiver scheduling, license compliance monitoring, onboarding workflows, and talent acquisition—reducing administrative effort by 50-70% while maintaining the human touch essential to quality care. The company has grown revenue 6x in 2025, demonstrating that providers are ready to embrace AI solutions that free coordinators to focus on patients rather than paperwork, with an Intake Agent launching in Q4 to further accelerate patient start of care.
AlleyWatch sat down with Arya Health CEO and Cofounder Kunal Sarda to learn more about the business, its future plans, recent funding round, and much, much more…
Who were your investors, and how much did you raise? Was it seed, Series A, B, etc?
The $18.2M Series A funding round was led by ACME Capital, with participation from Ridge Ventures, Twelve Below, executives from OpenAI, and leading post-acute care providers. This brings us to $25M raised till date.
Tell us about the product or service that Arya Health offers.
Arya Health builds AI-powered digital agents that automate the administrative chaos of distributed care, freeing providers’ time and resources to focus on what truly matters: patient care. Purpose-built for distributed care, Arya works alongside leading EMRs like WellSky, HCHB, and AlayaCare to streamline scheduling, compliance, onboarding, and more. By replacing manual office work with intelligent automation, Arya helps agencies reduce operating costs, improve caregiver utilization, and scale seamlessly, while bringing humanity back to care.
What inspired the start of Arya Health?
Arya’s founding story is rooted in the drive to use technology to fix the biggest problems in healthcare. We were frustrated that healthcare – despite all the latest advances – had remained cluttered with endless forms, portals, clicks, and reminders that keeps providers from what truly matters: connecting with the people they care for.
We founded Arya because we wanted to change that, and because we believe the company that helps lead this change in healthcare becomes the most valuable technology company of our lifetime.
How is Arya Health different?
Arya stands out by offering AI agents that actually do the work, not just track it. The platform delivers rapid implementation, immediate value, and fast product evolution, combining deep industry expertise with purpose-built automation for distributed care operations. Most importantly, in a world increasingly littered with narrow AI solutions, Arya is building a complete “digital labor for administration”, with a mandate of becoming the system of action for our customers.
What market does Arya Health target and how big is it?
The distributed care market is the fastest growing segment of healthcare at roughly $400B in the US and $800B globally. Of this, non-clinical administrative payroll- spend on staff perfoming administrative tasks- represents about $200B, which is projected to grow to $400B in the next 10 years. This is the addressable spend that Arya is mandated to compress through our digital agents.
What’s your business model?
Arya’s agents are priced like labor, but at a fraction of the cost of hiring administrative staff, and with shared alignment towards delivering results – new patients, new caregiver hires, staffed shifts, full compliance- to providers.
How are you preparing for a potential economic slowdown?
Arya is well-positioned to thrive in a downturn as (a) the healthcare sector remains resilient through economic cycles and (b) Arya’s agents work directly in service of driving cost efficiency for our customers, which only becomes more important in a downturn.
What was the funding process like?
Easy and fast. Given Arya’s strong growth and clear business impact, we received a lot of inbound interest during both our Seed and Series A. The Series A was oversubscribed.
What are the biggest challenges that you faced while raising capital?
Continuing to operate at our incredible velocity and keeping up with rapid growth as a very lean team. Raising capital is a full time job.
What factors about your business led your investors to write the check?
A best-in-class team delivering best-in-class growth, incredible customer validation, and the most ambitious vision for transforming the administrative backbone of distrubuted care.
What are the milestones you plan to achieve in the next six months?
Over the next six months, we plan to launch our new Intake Agent, designed to accelerate patient start of care and eliminate critical back-office bottlenecks. We will also expand our product suite to cover additional administrative functions within distributed-acute operations, continuing to replace manual, people-heavy processes with intelligent automation. To support this growth and increasing market demand, we’re actively scaling our team across key product and customer success roles.
What advice can you offer companies in New York that do not have a fresh injection of capital in the bank?
The same advice as always – Ship product, and talk to customers often. Given the rapid rate of change of technology, how fast you build, address real customer pain points, and build distribution are more important than ever today.
Where do you see the company going now over the near term?
Our mandate is to become *the* digital labor platform for non-clinical administration. Our near-term goals are in service of this mandate- continue expanding the skills of our AI-enabled agents to support more administrative use cases for our customers.
What’s your favorite fall destination in and around the city?
The Union Square Farmer’s Market! Our old office was nearby and it was the best place to enjoy the abundance of fall and a quick break from work.
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