As families increasingly live in different cities and countries, keeping ageing parents safe at home can be a challenge. Full-time attendants require trust and may not always be reliable, while video cameras can feel intrusive, particularly in bathrooms, where more than half of serious falls occur. Wearable devices such as smartwatches and panic pendants offer another option, but seniors may forget to wear or charge them.
Bengaluru-based Kubo Care is addressing this problem with a system that monitors movement continuously without recording video or audio, while keeping families informed.
The healthtech startup was founded in 2024 by CEO Ayush Agrawal and COO Anurag Ram Chandran. Agrawal, who previously co-founded senior care ecommerce platform Seniority and worked as an AVP at CARS24, experienced the problem firsthand when his father suffered a stroke and fell while alone at home. He remained undiscovered for hours.
Chandran, a Schwarzman Scholar who previously ran an Indian NGO, became the primary caregiver for his grandmother after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. His experience exposed him to gaps in elderly care.
The two met in early 2024 at Antler’s Bengaluru residency and combined their experience in age-tech to develop a system for monitoring seniors at home.
Monitoring movement through radio waves
Kubo Care’s main device is mounted on a wall or ceiling and uses 60 GHz millimetre-wave (mmWave) radar technology. Similar to how bats use echolocation, the sensor transmits radio signals to map a room in three dimensions, tracking human presence and movement without capturing video or audio.
The system uses proprietary AI to analyse this spatial data and identify patterns of movement. It can detect sudden falls in less than a second while distinguishing them from deliberate movements, such as someone slowly lowering themselves onto the floor.
Beyond emergencies, the software establishes a baseline of daily habits, tracking sleep restlessness, night-time awakenings, and washroom visits. Changes in these routines can help care teams identify possible health issues, including urinary tract infections or gradual vision decline.
Kubo Care holds patents in India and the US for software that converts raw point-cloud data into real-time skeletal models to assess posture and gait. It also has a patented method that reduces false alarms by more than 99%.
The startup develops its technology in-house, including hardware, custom firmware, cloud applications and AI analytics. In larger spaces, its software transfers tracking data between multiple wall-mounted devices, allowing continuous monitoring as a resident moves between rooms, including areas with blind spots.
For institutional operators, the system provides customisable alerts for bed exits, prolonged washroom stays, and wandering. The hardware can also be connected to ambient sensors that measure room temperature, humidity, lighting and air quality.
The information is available through an enterprise management portal for care facility staff and a mobile application for family members.
Global B2B plans
Kubo Care operates on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and plans to charge senior care operators between $50 and $70 per device per month.
The startup is currently pre-revenue and conducting pilots in India, Japan, and the US. In India, retirement community developers are integrating its hardware into model homes as part of the standard infrastructure.
Over the next year, Kubo Care plans to expand its B2B presence in senior care facilities across Japan, the US and India, while preparing for a broader direct-to-consumer launch.
“We are able to reduce false alerts by over 99% through our patented method,” Agrawal says. “The roadmap over the course of the next year is to establish ourselves in B2B, especially in the US and Japan, the two largest senior living markets in the world, while preparing for a direct-to-consumer launch by late next year.”
Kubo Care is part of YourStory's Tech30 cohort—a showcase of India's most promising startups of 2026, unveiled at TechSparks Bengaluru.
Edited by Teja Lele