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Neko Health expands preventive body scan operations to New York

Swedish health tech startup Neko Health has launched in New York after raising nearly $1 billion total to expand its preventive health screening services.

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Swedish health tech company Neko Health has expanded its operations to New York, TechCrunch Venture reported. Co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, the startup offers body scans that screen for issues in metabolism, skin, and blood. The company states that its global waitlist currently exceeds 300,000 people. [1]

Neko Health has raised nearly $1 billion in total funding to date, TechCrunch Venture reported. Preface Ventures investor Farooq Abbasi, who backed the company, stated that he hopes the business can become the future of preventative medicine in the United States. [1]

Ek, who co-founded Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2006 alongside Martin Lorentzon, serves as the executive chairman of the streaming platform. Forbes estimated his net worth at $12.5 billion as of August 2026. [3][5]

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In short

  • Neko Health was co-founded in Sweden by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne.
  • The startup has raised nearly $1 billion in total funding.
  • Neko Health has launched its body scan technology in New York with a global waitlist over 300,000 people.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to AmericaTechCrunch Venture, 1d ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to AmericaTechCrunch, 1d ago

Background

  1. [3]Daniel Ek on Wikipedia
  2. [4]Cryonics on Wikipedia
  3. [5]Spotify on Grokipedia
  4. [6]America on Grokipedia

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 6 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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