Severe period pain
Pain gets normalized or self-managed rather than evaluated, especially when nobody has told you what level of pain warrants care.
The problem usually isn't that care doesn't exist. It's getting to the right care.
Khora helps students with unresolved reproductive-health symptoms figure out whether to see someone, what kind of clinician to see, and where to find one who is nearby, in network, and actually available, and we stay with you until that next step happens.
We don't diagnose. We help you reach the clinicians who can.
Clinical evaluation, testing and treatment stay with licensed clinicians and the health system you already have access to.
Where students get stuck
Symptoms get normalized, self-managed, or split across four specialties.
Irregular cycles
Irregularity often doesn't trigger follow-up until it becomes disruptive, or until something else prompts a visit.
PCOS presentations
Can span primary care, OB-GYN, endocrinology, dermatology and nutrition, which makes "who do I book with?" a genuinely hard question.
Endometriosis symptoms
Persistent pelvic pain often needs specialized evaluation beyond what a student knows how to access on their own.
The problem isn't always a lack of healthcare. It's getting students to the right healthcare.
250–500
students in the first pilot cohort
One
semester, start to outcomes report
Zero
diagnoses made by us, navigation only
Closed
loop: we follow up until the step is done
How it works
Five steps, and none of them end in a directory link.
01
Identify
A short, clinician-reviewed assessment about your symptoms and what you need from care. Voluntary, and yours to stop at any point.
02
Guide
Education and next-step guidance based on your answers, what your symptoms could warrant looking into, without handing you a diagnosis you didn't get from a clinician.
03
Navigate
If further evaluation may help, we help you work out the right type of clinician and find campus or local in-network options you can actually get into.
04
Connect
Practical help with where to go, how to book, and the usual walls, network participation, no availability, being told to call back next month.
05
Follow up
We keep going until you've connected with the next step, you tell us to stop, or we document exactly what blocked you, so it can be fixed for the next student.
SymptomsIdentificationNavigationAppropriate careFollow-up
What you can ask us
It should feel like having a person, not a resource page.
Should I talk to someone about these symptoms?
What kind of provider should I even see?
Where do I find one near campus?
Do they take my insurance?
What should my next step actually be?
What if I can't get an appointment?
Where we stop
Being clear about our limits is part of the service.
What Khora does
- +Runs a voluntary, clinically reviewed symptom and care-needs assessment.
- +Helps you judge whether speaking to a clinician is a reasonable next step.
- +Points you to the right provider type and care pathway.
- +Helps identify campus and local in-network providers.
- +Works on the practical barriers: network participation, appointment availability.
- +Gives partner OB-GYN departments free recognition and pathway resources.
What Khora does not do
- ×Diagnose PCOS, endometriosis, or anything else.
- ×Replace Student Health or your treating clinicians.
- ×Order labs, imaging, medication or procedures.
- ×Build a parallel specialty-care system alongside your school's.
- ×Operate as an urgent or emergency service.
- ×Collect more of your data than the navigation actually requires.
Who we are
“The answer isn't always a better technology, but rather just a better way of doing things.”
Khora is built by a team working across women's health research, clinical epidemiology, engineering and early-stage investment, with one shared focus: making reproductive care easier to reach.
Zarah Khondoker
Women's health & innovation
2x TEDx speaker and women's health activist with a Master's in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work sits between women's health, reproductive endocrinology, venture capital and new business models for access.
Creator of The Hormonal Podcast; has consulted for women’s health companies and nonprofits.
Gabrielle DeCuir
Engineering & investment
Studying Computer Science with a focus in applied mathematics, data science, and computational medicine at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. Partner at A-Level Capital, data scientist at Arboretum Lifesciences, and fellow at Dorm Room Fund, with prior experience at IBM, Boeing and UC Irvine.
Focused on representation of and investment in women across technology and research.
Khora turned heads at OpenAI and Stanford.
We took the case for navigation to a room of builders and researchers: why reproductive care so often fails at the handoff rather than the diagnosis, and what changes when someone stays with a student until the appointment actually happens.
After completing the Breakthrough Accelerator, we presented Khora to investors, innovators, students, and faculty at Stanford.
Speaking, press and event invitations: info@khoraintelligence.com
Bringing Khora to your campus?
We run one-semester navigation pilots with student health services and OB-GYN departments, fixed cost, aggregate outcomes report, no EHR integration required to start.