Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M

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Neko Health, the body-scanning and wellness appraisal startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (above, left), has raised a $700 cardinal Series C.

The circular was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and O.G. Venture Partners. This follows the company’s $260 cardinal Series B raised successful January 2025.

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to measure a person’s health. For gym lovers, the scan besides present includes assemblage creation information. It tin mates the appraisal with Apple Health data, which Nilsonne says gives its aesculapian clinicians real-world information to usage successful its assessments.

Neko Health, which has locations successful the UK and Sweden, is preparing for its archetypal U.S. determination successful New York. The institution says much than 100,000 radical person already had scans and much than 350,000 radical person either registered for the waitlist oregon acceptable an appointment.

One of the radical who had a Neko Health scan is Calm laminitis Alex Tew. He posted connected X that it recovered a malignant mole connected his back, which helium promptly had removed. “I’m grateful to Neko for helping maine observe this – I’m not definite however I would person otherwise.”

Neko Health isn’t the lone wellness scanning institution founded by tech folks. MidJourney, the AI Lab champion known for its AI representation and video instauration exemplary and website, is besides creating a assemblage scanner, which it plans to integrate into a spa acquisition with blistery tubs and saunas, opening successful San Francisco sometime successful 2027.

Other investors successful Neko Health’s latest circular see Atomico, General Catalyst, Lakestar, Liberty City Ventures, Positive Sum, and BDT & MSD.

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