# Neko Health Secures $700 Million Series C for US Preventive Healthcare Expansion

> Neko Health, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, has raised a 700 million dollar Series C at nearly a 7 billion dollar valuation. That is a fourfold leap from its 1.7 billion dollar Series B in January 2025, and the round was led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture, with Atomico, General Catalyst and Lakestar co-investing alongside backers ranging from Mark Zuckerberg to will.i.am. The money funds a US expansion, opening clinics in New York and other cities where a 60-minute, radiation-free scan promises a comprehensive preventive health assessment. The premise is that catching problems early with AI-assisted analysis of the whole body beats waiting for symptoms, a pitch that resonates with the growing longevity and preventive-care movement. The skeptical question is whether whole-body screening of healthy people delivers real outcomes or mostly surfaces false alarms, a debate that has dogged preventive scanning for decades. Investors are clearly betting that AI plus slick execution changes the math, and the valuation reflects how big they think the market could be.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Monday, July 20, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Neko Health, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, has raised a 700 million dollar Series C at nearly a 7 billion dollar valuation. That is a fourfold leap from its 1.7 billion dollar Series B in January 2025, and the round was led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture, with Atomico, General Catalyst and Lakestar co-investing alongside backers ranging from Mark Zuckerberg to will.i.am. The money funds a US expansion, opening clinics in New York and other cities where a 60-minute, radiation-free scan promises a comprehensive preventive health assessment. The premise is that catching problems early with AI-assisted analysis of the whole body beats waiting for symptoms, a pitch that resonates with the growing longevity and preventive-care movement. The skeptical question is whether whole-body screening of healthy people delivers real outcomes or mostly surfaces false alarms, a debate that has dogged preventive scanning for decades. Investors are clearly betting that AI plus slick execution changes the math, and the valuation reflects how big they think the market could be.

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[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/daniel-eks-body-scanning-startup-neko-health-raises-another-700m/)

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