By Kate Newhouse, Chief Executive Officer, Kooth Digital Health
I’m pleased to share that Kooth has acquired Kismet Health. For us, this represents an important next step in strengthening an already robust global offer.
Kooth has long been recognised as a leader in digital mental health, with a proven ability to deliver equitable access, engaging experiences, and clinically rigorous support for teenagers and adults across diverse health systems. As the sector continues to evolve, it is clear that the same standards of engagement and quality must extend to younger children and to the families who support them.
Our work in the United Kingdom and internationally - and particularly in the United States through Soluna, which now supports six million young people across California and New Jersey - has demonstrated that population-level mental health support can be delivered effectively and at scale.
But meeting the needs of younger children requires tools that are developmentally attuned, engaging in a different way, and supportive of meaningful parent and caregiver involvement.
This is precisely where Kismet strengthens our strategy.
Why Kismet, and why now
Across every system I’ve worked in, one principle is clear: access is essential and must be paired with an experience that people and practitioners genuinely want to use.
Kismet complements and expands our company’s ability to tackle the joint challenge of opening access and delivering on engagement. Their telehealth platform brings a fresh, innovative perspective on virtual care for users.
It has been intentionally designed around the challenges clinicians face when working virtually and particularly with children and families, whether in Los Angeles, London, or rural communities. How do we hold the attention of younger service users? How do we involve parents and caregivers appropriately? How do multidisciplinary teams collaborate smoothly across different settings?
Kismet offers thoughtful solutions to these questions. The platform is EMR-agnostic, flexible, well designed, and grounded in strong clinical insight. Kismet’s research shows that their platform achieves three times the engagement of standard video tools while beautifully recreating elements of in-person care
As we continue to expand, our solutions must adapt to local clinical, cultural, and regulatory contexts. Kismet’s design reflects this adaptability and is suitable for school-based health, community care, and other clinical environments.
This combination of access, engagement, and clinical rigour is exactly what our service users need and our partners across systems, commissioners, and payers prioritize.
Looking ahead
What excites me most about this moment is the alignment between our teams. As Dr. Cierra Gromoff, Co-Founder and CEO of Kismet Health, shared in the market announcement that went out last week,