I've watched patients
go unheard for decades.
David Martinez, RCP · Founder, Nevidra
"I built Nevidra because the system tracks what's measurable — not what matters."
I've been a licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner for over fifteen years. I've sat at the bedside of patients in every stage of COPD, respiratory distress, and CHF. I've watched people fight to breathe — not just physically, but to be heard.
The clinical system is extraordinary at measuring oxygen saturation, FEV₁, and six-minute walk distances. It is poor at measuring what it feels like to put on your shoes in the morning. It rarely asks what you've stopped doing because breathing makes it too hard. It almost never asks what you're afraid of.
That gap — between what clinical data captures and what patients actually live — is where Nevidra was born.
I spent years watching research studies recruit participants from academic medical centers — places that by definition serve patients with resources, insurance, and proximity to major hospitals. The farmworker in Fresno. The grandmother in Bakersfield whose first language is Spanish. The retired steelworker managing three chronic conditions on a fixed income. Their voices weren't in the data. Their experiences weren't shaping the guidelines that were supposed to guide their care.
I'm not a researcher. I'm not a tech founder. I'm a respiratory therapist who got tired of watching people disappear from the evidence base that determines their treatment.
Nevidra is my attempt to close that gap. It's a platform designed to meet patients where they are — at home, in their own language, at their own pace. Every question was written by someone who has asked those questions in a clinical setting and watched the answers get lost because there was nowhere to put them.
I'm not here to build something for this community. I'm here to serve it — and to hand it back to them.