About Kinnos

We are purpose driven to revolutionize the way healthcare environments are cleaned and are passionate about empowering staff through cutting-edge colorization technology. Our team is committed to ushering in a safer, cleaner world where cleanliness is not just a concept, but a vivid reality you can see.

Colorization technologies for a safer world.

We offer society peace of mind through a clean you can see.

Kinnos is on a mission to enhance people's ability to safeguard themselves and their communities against infections. We firmly believe that enhanced visibility during disinfection can lead to the creation of safer environments, reducing the risk of infections.

Our Story

At Kinnos, we understand the critical importance of precision in infection prevention measures to ensure patient and staff safety. Our purpose-built solutions empower healthcare professionals with unparalleled visibility during the disinfection process, enabling the creation of impeccably clean healthcare environments and reducing the risk of infections.

A higher quality of clean is needed.

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New multidrug-resistant organisms, increasingly infectious bugs, and historically dormant pathogens now on the rise have the healthcare industry on its heels trying to stem the tide. Studies have shown that less than 50% of high-touch surfaces in healthcare settings are adequately cleaned, which can result in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

Simply choosing an effective disinfectant isn’t enough. It’s how those disinfectants are used that matters most.

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During the fight against Ebola in West Africa, three Columbia undergraduate students realized that the challenge was not in the quality of disinfectants being used to destroy the virus but rather the quality of technique in applying the disinfectants. Unable to see the disinfectant once it was applied, workers often missed spots leading to contaminated critical surface areas.

Being able to visualize surface coverage ensures more efficient and effective cleaning.

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Informed by their experience on the ground in an outbreak, the team developed Highlight as a colorizing technology that can be added to the disinfectants already used by hospitals and other facilities. Specially formulated to work with a wide range of disinfecting wipes, Highlight temporarily colors ready-to-use wipes to provide hospital staff with an instantaneous visual cue to confirm complete surface coverage. In various studies, Highlight has been found to measurably improve cleaning quality metrics by as much as 95%.

Our Story

New drug resistant organisms, increasingly infectious bugs, and historically dormant pathogens now on the rise have the healthcare industry on its heels trying to stem the tide. While much attention is paid to the vaccines and drugs used to mitigate symptoms or kill a disease, the less heralded but equally important challenge is in how we prevent the spread of these infections between people and communities.

Much of this hinges on our ability to properly clean and disinfect surfaces. Despite investment in expensive and complex “no-touch” cleaning systems post-pandemic, the truth is that manual cleaning remains the gold standard in infection prevention - tried and tested over the decades.

The frightening reality is that even our hospitals are not safe from this type of infectious spread. Studies have shown that less than 50% of high-touch surfaces in healthcare settings are adequately disinfected, which can result in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). HAIs impact more than two million patients, cause 99,000 deaths, and lead to $45 billion in direct costs every year.

Kinnos has developed and patented a powerful new weapon in the battle against infection called Highlight®. During their fight against Ebola in West Africa, three Columbia undergraduate students realized that the challenge was not in the quality of disinfectants being used to destroy the virus but rather the quality of technique in applying the disinfectants. Unable to see the disinfectant once it was applied, workers often missed spots leading to contaminated critical surface areas.

Informed by their experience on the ground in an outbreak, the team developed Highlight as a colorizing technology that can be added to the disinfectants already used by hospitals and other groups. Specially formulated to work with a wide range of cleaning products, Highlight temporarily colors disinfectant wipes and cleaning solutions to provide hospitals’ staff with an instantaneous visual cue to confirm complete surface coverage. The color automatically fades away to colorless after a few minutes based on thoroughness of wiping to help train on technique.

In a peer-reviewed study published in the American Journal of Infection Control in 2021, Highlight was found to measurably improve cleaning by as much as 70%. This award-winning product is already in use by hospitals, first responders, and transit agencies around the world, and is poised to dramatically scale as health systems embrace the need to improve cleaning and disinfection standards.

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