Ahead Health, a Zurich-based preventive healthcare company, today announces that it has raised €5.1 million ($6 million) in funding to scale its European expansion by signing up more partner clinics across Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, enhance its platform, introduce new testing modalities and grow its engineering team.
The round was led by RTP Global, with participation from Tiny.VC, Pareto 20, and entrepreneurs including Kai Eberhardt (Oviva), Stef van Grieken (Cradle), Sara Hürlimann (Zahnarztzentrum), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Michiel Bakker (MIT, DeepMind), and Cody Gakpo (Liverpool FC).
Nick Lenten, CEO and co-founder at Ahead Health, says: “Well-analysed data for preventative health purposes is already making a massive difference, with 25% of those who have used our services discovering a medical issue that was previously unknown to them. Next to that, we also uncover more longevity-focused insights – for instance when our MRI analysis pinpointed the root cause of my own nagging lower back pain, which then allowed me to treat the issue.
“We’re thrilled to welcome new investment as we enter a new stage of growth and many more people will experience such relief as a result. We all want to be able to lift our grandkids when we’re 70, and early detection is the key.”
Ahead Health’s round comes amid steady funding activity across Europe in preventive healthcare, diagnostics and longevity-focused HealthTech during 2025.
In Switzerland, Zurich-based Aeon raised €8.2 million to scale its AI-driven preventive health platform, underscoring sustained investor interest in the Swiss market. In the UK, longevity and diagnostics players attracted significant capital, including GlycanAge, which secured €7.4 million to expand glycan-based ageing diagnostics, and Numan, which raised €51.6 million to broaden its preventative digital healthcare offering.
Elsewhere in Europe, Spain-based Holo raised €1 million to grow its personalised lab testing and health-tracking platform, Poland’s Holi closed a €3 million round to expand its digital obesity treatment clinic, and Dutch men’s health startup Fellos raised €2 million to scale its telehealth services.
In adjacent monitoring and diagnostics, Swiss wearable technology company Liom secured €13.9 million to advance continuous glucose monitoring.
Taken together, these rounds represent over €100 million invested into preventive, diagnostic and proactive healthcare startups in Europe during 2025, positioning Ahead Health’s raise within a broader pattern of capital flowing into data-driven early detection, biomarker analysis and preventive care models – particularly notable given the continued concentration of activity in Switzerland.
Vinsensius Vega, CTO and co-founder at Ahead Health, adds: “Proprietary, hard-to-get data is where we believe the AI-puck is going. We want to help people securely and safely build that data set, and help make sense of it – embedded in the local healthcare system they’re part of.”
Founded in 2024 by ex-Google executives, medical doctors, and healthtech builders, Ahead Health combines preventive check-ups such as MRI scans, advanced blood tests, and CT-scans into a single AI-powered platform to democratise access to sophisticated preventative healthcare.
It translates biomarkers (naturally occurring indicators in the body which can indicate disease) into personalised, actionable insights. The company says this can lead to detection of conditions like cancer, brain disease, endometriosis, and cardiovascular issues years earlier than traditional healthcare.
Crucially, Ahead Health’s full-body MRI scan and blood tests take just 30 minutes.
Jelmer de Jong, Partner at RTP Global, says: “There’s enormous untapped potential in the preventative health space, which is quickly emerging as one of the most exciting applications of AI in healthcare. Nick and team combine operator experience with healthcare expertise to keep building on their success and serve the growing number of consumers placing a priority on proactive health management. We’re very proud to back them on their journey.”
As a licensed medical practice, Ahead Health operates through partnerships with clinics across Switzerland and Germany, combining medically rigorous testing with an AI platform that continuously learns from both research and individual health patterns.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/01/we-all-want-to-lift-our-grandkids-when-were-70-ahead-health-raises-e5-1-million-for-preventive-healthcare-expansion/
