Kinomatic Announces $4M Seed Round to Scale its Personalized, Opioid-Sparing Custom Orthopedic Surgical Approach

• The round, led by Waterline Ventures, supports the company’s rapid growth since inception
  
• Dr. Andrew B. Wickline, MD, FAAOS, Board-Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, joins as Chief Medical Officer
  
• Funding will accelerate the development of Kinomatic’s proprietary AI-enabled surgical planning and recovery optimization
  

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif., June 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kinomatic, a pioneer in AI- and VR-driven orthopedic surgery planning and concierge recovery, today announced the close of a $4M seed round led by Waterline Ventures. To date, Kinomatic has achieved 7x revenue growth over four years, a 5x expansion in provider relationships, and a world-class Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 85.

The funding will be used to scale the company in critical roles, open a new office, and continue developing the company’s AI-enabled surgical planning platform, with a focus on optimizing long-term, opioid-sparing outcomes in the pre-op and recovery phases of total knee and hip replacement surgery.

Kinomatic’s AI-powered platform spans the surgical continuum across four core capabilities: custom pre-operative 3D modeling tailored to each patient's unique anatomy; VR surgical simulation that allows surgeons to rehearse the procedure before entering the operating room; post operative recovery optimization; long-term outcomes tracking, and concierge-level care.

“Kinomatic is uniting technology and unparalleled patient care to deliver a new gold standard, where every aspect of surgery is optimized, with the goal of a knee or hip that feels so natural that patients forget they ever had surgery,” said Shaun Lea, CEO of Kinomatic. “Patients expect more than just ‘good enough’ from their care. Longevity is no longer a fringe concept, and patients having these surgeries are thinking ahead to what the next 20 to 30 years look like.”

New Chief Medical Officer
Additionally, Dr. Andrew B. Wickline, MD, FAAOS, joins Kinomatic as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Wickline is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who is widely celebrated for pioneering advanced, patient-centric protocols that accelerate post-operative recovery. He developed March2aMillion, a national nonprofit initiative to reduce opioid dependency in orthopedic surgery through education, surgeon enrollment, and advocacy. Dr. Wickline will focus on enhancing Kinomatic’s post-operative recovery protocols by implementing a new state-of-the-art recovery program that he developed while researching recovery optimization.

AI Investment for Personalized Care
For decades, orthopedic surgery has relied on generic alignment parameters applied across patients. This approach doesn’t take a patient’s unique biomechanics into account, limiting patient recovery and successful outcomes. Further, while surgical technique and implant technology have advanced, the post-operative experience has remained limited, leaving patients to navigate their recovery alone. Combining AI enabled surgical planning and VR enabled surgical simulations, Kinomatic assists clinicians in completing surgeries more quickly and accurately, improves prosthesis sizing accuracy, and accelerates the patient’s postoperative functional recovery.

The platform analyzes over two million data points from more than 1,000 unique measurements per patient to select the optimal match from more than 30,000 possible implant configurations. This level of detail enables biomechanical precision that standard 2D templating and one-size-fits-all approaches cannot match.

“For too long, recovery has been the forgotten phase of joint replacement. Patients are left to navigate the hardest part of the procedure largely on their own, often with a bottle of opioids as their only tool,” said Dr. Wickline. “What Kinomatic has built changes that equation entirely. By combining precision pre-operative planning with a concierge recovery model built around a patient's unique anatomy and biology, we can begin to close the gap between a great surgery and a great outcome.”

“Total hip and knee replacements are among the fastest-growing surgical categories in the country. Kinomatic focuses on improving recovery outcomes for patients and surgeons. Kinomatic’s platform is built around the patient, providing data and tools that were previously unavailable to their surgeon. The company has partnered with leading surgeons around the country, and is well-positioned for growth within this market,” said Robbie Greenglass, Managing Partner at Waterline Ventures.

Founded in 2021, Kinomatic is the only end-to-end pre- and post-surgical partner purpose-built around the recovery phase of joint replacement, where long-term outcomes are ultimately determined.

About Kinomatic
Kinomatic is an AI- and VR-driven orthopedic surgery planning and aftercare company dedicated to optimizing outcomes for knee and hip joint replacement patients. As the only end-to-end pre- and post-surgical partner purpose-built around the recovery phase, Kinomatic combines service-enabled technology with a concierge patient experience that wraps around the surgeon’s workflow. For more information, visit www.kinomatic.com.

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