As individuals try to manage medical information and understand their conditions, many typically turn to Google or WebMD — neither of which does much to verify or provide the latest information. But Roon plans to change this with a medical education platform for vetted information, sourced strictly from doctors, patients, and caregivers.

By curating the data it makes available around individual conditions, Roon is meant to reassure patients and caregivers that it's accurate and well sourced.

“We do pay lip service to caregivers, but there's so much more that can and should be done to recognize the important role they play in managing health,” said Roon co-founder Rohan Ramakrishna, who is also a neurosurgeon. “And so when we build this medical canon of information, we take that all into account, so that we can meet the unique needs of both patients and caregivers within any individual condition.”

Along with Ramakrishna are Pinterest’s former head of creator partnerships, Vikram Bhaskaran, and partner engineering, Arun Ranganathan. They entered the health tech space with Roon, hoping to reinvent what it means to receive medical information after working as caregivers themselves.

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Bhaskaran and Ranganathan realized it was unnecessarily difficult to look up information about their loved ones' conditions. After connecting on the idea with Ramakrishna, Roon was born.

“There's so much medical misinformation...in 2022, it's crazy that patients don't have anywhere to go to answer questions,” Bhaskaran told TechCrunch in an interview.

The company claims to be “humanizing medicine” for people who have questions but don't have a place to turn to.

Roon is meant to provide what they consider "medically vetted” information to caregivers and patients about grave medical conditions. To begin with, they are only providing information related to glioblastomas, a type of brain tumor, and have 200 active users. The company hopes to expand to include dementia, pediatric cancers, and ALS.