Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York

In Brief

Neko Health’s promised U.S. enlargement arrives connected September 24, erstwhile the health-scanning startup opens its archetypal American office. It volition beryllium located successful SoHo, Manhattan’s location of luxury shopping, astatine 300 Lafayette Street.

Neko was founded by Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, who serves arsenic Neko’s CEO. The institution says that much than 25,000 New Yorkers person joined a waitlist.

As we antecedently reported, Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it pairs with bloodwork and information from fittingness devices to measure a person’s health. Currently, the startup has locations successful the U.K. and Sweden. When it raised a $700 cardinal Series C past month, it said that 100,000 radical already had scans.

Neko is among a increasing fig of wellness scanning companies created by tech founders oregon backed by VCs. For instance, Midjourney, the AI laboratory champion known for its AI representation and video instauration exemplary and website, is also creating a assemblage scanner, which it plans to integrate into a spa experience. It plans to unfastened successful San Francisco successful 2027. Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis besides person a longevity company called Fountain Life that does scans and wellness assessments. Function Health, co-founded by well-known wellness podcaster Dr. Mark Hyman, offers humor testing, and it added assemblage scans aft acquiring the startup Ezra. Function conscionable took connected a $450 cardinal loan from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, wherever companies repay the wealth via profit-sharing arrangements.

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