Neko Health, a Stockholm, Sweden-based preventative health care technology company, raised €60M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Lakestar, with participation from Atomico and General Catalyst. As part of this round, Klaus Hommels (Lakestar) and Niklas Zennström (Atomico) will join the company’s board together with the founders.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its strategic plans for expansion, continue investment in R&D, clinical studies, and recruitment of talent.
Co-founded I n 2018 by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek, Neko works to create a healthcare system that can help people stay healthy through preventive measures and early detection. The company’s medical scanning technology concept plans to make it possible to do broad and non-invasive health data collection that is convenient and affordable for the public. The scan takes approximately 10 minutes, always followed by an in-doctor’s consultation where users get all the results and recommendations instantly. It uses over 70 sensors to collect 50 million data points in minutes and can for instance detect skin changes as small as 0.2 millimetres. The technology at hand is intended to assist doctors in detecting disease earlier including skin conditions, skin cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other metabolic syndromes.
The Neko Body Scan experience is currently only available in Stockholm but will soon launch in clinics across Europe. A scan costs €250.
The company is based in Stockholm with 38 employees across Europe.
FinSMEs
05/07/2023