According to the company, the raise was part of a larger funding round earlier in the year. The company opened a primary care clinic by the name of Atrium in Stockholm - which Sifted visited - in the autumn of 2022, when it was still in stealth.Īlready then, the healthtech startup was advertising online that its full body-scanning programmes would soon begin and that it was looking for volunteers.ĭocuments from Swedish Companies Registration Office, which Sifted has seen, show that Neko Health raised another 51.5m SEK, approximately €4.5m, at the end of last year. A moonshot ventureĮk and Nilsonne founded HJN Sverige, now Neko Health, in 2018 and have since had more than €30m invested in the company, mainly by Ek and his moonshot investment company Prima Materia.

Neko’s technology is based on AI, and therefore the company expects its diagnostic ability to improve over time. Neko Health has set up a new health clinic in Stockholm where the non-invasive treatments, which will take about 15 minutes followed by a doctor’s consultation, will take place.įor a €150 patient fee, these examinations will collect over 50 million data points about the skin, heart, vessels, respiration, inflammation and more. Isn’t it strange that since 1965 we inspect our cars every year - but we wait until our bodies fall apart before we do something about it?” said Ek in a statement. If we are to be able to reverse that trend, I’m convinced that healthcare needs to go from being reactive today to acting proactively. At the same time, healthcare has for a long time had an unsustainable cost trend and a heavily burdened medical profession. “Hjalmar and I founded Neko with the insight that large parts of today’s healthcare system were designed over 50 years ago. Given the many challenges that healthcare is facing, Ek and Nilsonne believe it’s crucial that early detection and preventive care are made far bigger priorities. The big problem that Neko Health is trying to solve is that today’s primary care system doesn’t give doctors the time and resources they need to focus on preventive care. Read more: Will Daniel Ek’s full-body scanner be the future of diagnostics? Preventative care is key The announcement today confirms a Sifted scoop from November that Ek was working on a new startup within healthtech.

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