Unephra

At-home cardiovascular health monitoring powered by passive urine analysis

health AI / medtech / digital health

Founded2023

Employees4

LocationSan Jose, CA

About

Unephra transforms disease management by integrating personalized physiology into treatment using a passive, non-invasive urine monitoring system. We help patients with heart failure and hypertension stay ahead of risk by turning daily bathroom visits into clinical insights, effortlessly, shared between patients and their care teams. This empowers healthcare providers to deliver proactive, tailored interventions that improve outcomes while preventing avoidable hospital readmissions and office visits considerably reducing the cost of care. Applications of Unephra's platform also extends to personalized side-effect monitoring, osteoporosis management, electrolyte balance and general wellness.

Product

Value proposition: Enables at-home cardiovascular disease management by integrating personalized cardio-renal physiology into treatment using passive urine-monitoring technology to provide real-time clinical insights for care teams and patients, improving outcomes while reducing cost
Target customers: healthcare providers, clinics, hospitals, and patients managing heart failure and hypertension

Founders

Farhad Taghibakhsh, PhD (CEO & Co-Founder)"},role:{citations:[3,4],confidence:
Pedram Fatehi, MD, MPH (Co-Founder & Medical Strategist)"},role:{citations:[3,4],confidence:
Saba Lahsaei, MD, FACC (Co-Founder)"},role:{citations:,confidence:
Arash Samimi, PhD (Co-Founder)"},role:{citations:,confidence:

Products

lab-in-bathroom passive urine monitoring systemadaptive micro-sensor array for urine biomarker measurementsmart bio-chemical sensing platformsmachine learning analytics for cardio-renal physiology

Key features

continuous at-home health monitoringreal-time clinical insightspersonalized cardio-renal physiology modelnon-invasive passive urine analysisintegration with care teamsproactive, tailored interventions

Technologies

passive urine monitoringbiochemical sensingmachine learningstatistical analysiscardio-renal physiological modeling

Target conditions

heart failurehypertensioncardiovascular disease

Care settings

homevirtual

Competitors

prospective at-home cardiovascular monitoring companiestraditional remote patient monitoring solutions

News

Unephra | LinkedIn · 2025-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
Unephra 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors · 2025-05-24T00:00:00.000Z
Unephra Wins HealthTech Week Pitch Competition 2026 at JPM in San Francisco | Unephra · 2026-01-19T23:11:04.000Z
Farhad Taghibakhsh: Bringing Precision, Access, and Hope to ... · 2025-12-22T00:00:00.000Z
Meet the 10 startups in Techstars' first DC healthcare accelerator · 2025-12-05T00:00:00.000Z
Techstars Healthcare Accelerator powered by Permanente Medicine ... · 2025-09-21T00:00:00.000Z

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Profile updated Jul 29, 2026. Sources: unephra.com, youtu.be, techstars.com, providers.northbay.org