Swedish healthtech startup Neko Health has raised a $260m Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from General Catalyst, O.G. Venture Partners, Rosello, Lakestar and Atomico. The funding brings Neko’s valuation to a whopping $1.7bn.
The company, founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne in 2023, is a preventative healthtech business offering full-body health scans. Since launching its first body scanning facility in Stockholm, over 10k people have been scanned. Global demand is high, with an additional 100k individuals on the waiting list, according to the company.
Last year, Neko launched in London, and with the new funding the startup plans to open more clinics in the coming months — in Europe as well as its first one in the US, the third largest country in terms of its waiting list.
“This round of financing accelerates Neko’s global expansion of locations to include the US, as well as investments in breakthrough R&D,” Nilsonne said in a statement. “In the coming years, Neko will continue to bring incredible innovations to the market to find and prevent disease before it has a chance to develop.”
The Neko scan incorporates high-resolution 2D and 3D photography, thermal imaging, and detailed cardiovascular measurements — similar to what a standard primary care unit could test for, but usually doesn’t.
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