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Neko Health opens its doors in NEW YORK, bringing the most valuable hour in healthcare to America. Science · SEP 24, 2026 PR Newswire Booking begins today at Neko's first U.S. clinic in SoHo, where breakthrough technology and prevention-focused clinicians give members the bigger picture o... Booking begins today at Neko's first U.S. clinic in SoHo, where breakthrough technology and prevention-focused clinicians give members the bigger picture of their health in a single hour NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Today marks the opening day for Neko Health in the United States, after more than 25,000 New Yorkers joined the waitlist ahead of launch. Their clinic at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo - the first of many planned across NYC and across the country - brings Neko's Scandinavian high-tech and high-touch experience to life. Across Sweden and the UK, more than 100,000 members have already experienced the Neko Health Scan. At the end of their first appointment, 75% of members book and prepay for their next scan, and after their second appointment, 80% of members book their third scan. The Neko Health Scan is the most valuable hour you can spend on your health. Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek (Spotify) founded Neko Health to deliver preventive healthcare at scale, shifting the focus from treating disease after it develops to helping people understand and act on their health earlier. Neko engineered its technology and clinical experience entirely from the ground up. In one hour, you'll have a connected view of your skin, heart, blood, and metabolic health, all explained by a clinician before you leave. All of this for $499. The stakes are real: six in ten American adults live with a chronic disease, and four in ten live with two or more,[1] and roughly 90% of national health spending goes toward people managing chronic and mental health conditions.[1] And yet, up to 80% of premature heart disease and stroke is preventable.[2] "Hjalmar and I have talked about bringing Neko to America since the earliest days of the company because if you want to change healthcare at scale, the U.S. has to be part of that ambition," said Daniel Ek, Co-Founder of Neko Health. "New York is the starting point. New Yorkers place an incredible value on their time and have exceptionally high expectations for how they spend it. This city doesn't settle for good enough, and neither do we." The 60-minute, radiation-free visit combines the best of human, hardware, and health intelligence: a 360-degree skin exam with 6,000 images captured via a combination of cameras in the visual spectrum as well as thermal cameras, a cardiovascular assessment, detailed body composition analysis, on-site blood testing focused on 50+ essential biomarkers, and unrushed time with a clinician to walk through results and build a plan of action. The Neko Health Scan takes roughly 30 minutes, followed by a further 30 minutes with a clinician. Together, this creates a detailed baseline that can be tracked over time and helps surface early signals before symptoms appear, often while there's still time to act. After the appointment, members can access their results anytime through the Neko Health app on iOS and Android, which stores scan history, tracks changes over time, and syncs daily data from wearables like Oura or Whoop via Apple Health. The company designed and developed its own medical devices, hardware, software and systems to capture, analyze and present health data within a single experience. This allows Neko to ensure high quality, all while rapidly improving the technology, experience, and outcomes for members. "There's no better time than now to bring Neko Health to America," said Hjalmar Nilsonne, CEO and Co-Founder of Neko Health. "We've scanned more than 100,000 people across Sweden and the UK, and what we've seen is unmistakable: when people can see their health clearly and know what to do about it, they get healthier." In New York, Neko refers members who need additional care to vetted physicians and healthcare systems, including General Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), Schweiger Dermatology, and Mount Sinai Health System. This allows members to be connected quickly with high-quality, trusted clinicians when follow-up is needed, so they can move forward with confidence in the continuity of their care. Members can also be referred to their own clinicians, if they prefer. Neko also accepts HSA and FSA payment, making the experience more accessible to New Yorkers already setting aside pre-tax dollars for their health. The New York opening follows Neko Health's $700 million Series C, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners, with participation from Maria Sharapova, Zoe Saldaña, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Danny Meyer, Claudia Schiffer and Sir Matthew Vaughn, Thierry Henry, Tim Ferriss and will.i.am. New York marks the first step in Neko Health's U.S. expansion. Additional New York locations and a Miami clinic are expected to follow, with Washington, D.C. and San Francisco also planned. Press kit link for imagery. About Neko Health Neko Health is a health technology company that opened its first clinic in Stockholm in 2023, founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne. Neko designs and engineers its own hardware, software, and clinical protocols in-house, powering a next-generation health scan delivered across clinics in Sweden, the UK, and now the United States. SOURCE Neko Health Published by News Desk · WeeklyReviewer The WeeklyReviewer news desk monitors breaking developments around the clock - sourcing, verifying, and publishing real-time industry news across business, technology, politics, science, sports, and world affairs. Every story that comes through the Live Wire is reviewed for accuracy before publication, keeping our readers ahead of the curve without the noise.

A $499 checkup gave me a peek at the future of AI-powered health care. * In today's CEO Daily: Can AI make health care better - and cheaper? * The big leadership story: Travis Kalanick's return to Silicon Valley * The markets: Surging Treasury yields spark a selloff. * Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. Earlier this week, I got an AI-powered physical exam that frankly wowed me, from a scan that mapped my skin and body composition to heart, blood, and metabolic health tests. A physician walked me through the results a few minutes later while standing in front of my 3D image in a room more reminiscent of "2001: A Space Odyssey" than my doctor's office. Neko Health, a Swedish health care and technology company founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek and CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne, opened its first U.S. clinic in Manhattan yesterday, offering this package for $499. It was the kind of health care experience I've always wanted and rarely received: fast, simple, and proactive. "We want to create this almost magical consumer experience around health care," Nilsonne told me. "We want to democratize high-quality preventive health care and make it available to millions or hundreds of millions of people." There's a lot of discussion about health right now: the health of the planet, the health of our economies, and, of course, the health of our own bodies. We are living longer at a time when health care is getting more expensive, jobs are becoming less secure and much of the developed world is bracing for a 'silver tsunami' as aging populations impact everything from tax revenue to consumer behavior. The Trump administration announced plans this week to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public health care exchanges as part of a crackdown on fraud. The problems are profound, but I'm also struck by the promise of what's happening right now, via AI and beyond: The desire to disrupt. There are now thousands of AI-powered health care startups and plenty of disruption within the system, too. AI is saving at least 132 hours annually for half of the health care professionals surveyed in the 2026 Philips Future Health Index. They report seeing more patients and making fewer mistakes. But the most critical disruption for many Americans is cost. I spoke with Mark Cuban at the Digital Health New York Summit last week about how he's disrupting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) with Cost Plus Drugs. Launched in early 2022, the direct-to-patient pharmacy business has expanded to manufacturing, where, Cuban says, volume has increased enough to lower the price of 190 medications. He said the company is making money, thanks in part to demand generated by TrumpRx, but that's not the goal. "My mission is just to fuck up health care," he said. "Trying to optimize a broken system doesn't really change anything." The desire to live better. Bryan Johnson might want to live forever - and this 55-year-old single mother is aging at a slower pace - but most of us just want to be healthier in the time that we're here. Is America getting healthier? When it comes to obesity and death from cancer, yes. When it comes to managing stress and the ability to afford health care, no. So it matters that companies like Walmart are trying to put more emphasis on nutrition and initiatives like its Health Ambassador pilot to make health care more accessible. Most important, though, is our growing understanding of the systemic nature of health. I spoke this week with Frederick Lowery, who became CEO of Henry Schein in March. As leader of the world's largest distributor of dental equipment, supplies, and services, he's eager to explore the links between oral health and a range of chronic ailments. The desire to engage. Large U.S. employers expect a median 9.2% increase in health care costs next year, according to the nonprofit Business Group on Health. About half expect to push those costs onto workers, a record number of whom are already disengaged. But Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel, who also oversees all of Amazon grocery, has a different approach. He came in earlier this week to talk about how the company is investing in organic foods and in workers through higher pay, apprenticeship programs, and cheap health care. There's been a lot of attention to the decision to raise the hourly pay of 100,000 workers to $21 an hour. But Buechel hopes the introduction of low-cost health care and apprenticeship programs could turn what is typically a high-turnover job into a compelling career. I suspect one reason Amazon can do that is that it's also creating AI-powered health care offerings for consumers. 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Neko Health body scan lands in NYC with 25K on the waitlist. Prevention gets tech budget it deserves as a $499, hour-long body scan backed by Zuckerberg and Sharapova lands in SoHo. There's a line that Neko Health likes to point to: 25,000 New Yorkers signed up before the company had even picked a paint color for its walls. It's a waitlist number for a clinic that hadn't opened yet, in a city that already has some of the best hospitals on the planet. So why the line? Because Neko is selling the hour before anything goes wrong. Strip away the marketing language and the Neko Health Scan is fairly simple to describe: one visit, about 60 minutes, no needles that draw blood in the traditional sense, no radiation. The machine and the clinician together gather a broad range of information about your heart, your skin, your blood chemistry, your metabolic markers - then you sit down with an actual person who walks you through what it means and what, if anything, you should do next [1]. That last part is the part longevity researchers have been begging for. Most of Longevity Ltd. don't get a full-body check until something already hurts. Neko is betting that people will pay to find problems before they have symptoms, and the early numbers back that bet up: more than 350,000 people worldwide have joined the waitlist or already booked a scan, and in the UK and Sweden, over 100,000 have actually gone through with it. Three out of four of those people liked what they got enough to prepay for the next one. Neko Health co-founder and CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne framed the US launch as a question the company had been sitting with for years. "We've spent the last few years asking a simple question: What if a single visit could give you a more complete picture of your health, where it's heading, and a clear plan from a medical professional to change what happens next?" he said. "New York felt like the right place to bring that idea to the US It's a city where people are used to having access to the best of everything - and we think healthcare should be no different." The SoHo location, opening 24 September at 300 Lafayette Street, isn't a converted storefront with a folding table and a blood pressure cuff. It's a two-floor buildout with seven scan rooms, built to look and feel less like a doctor's office and more like the kind of space you'd actually want to return to. That's deliberate. Preventive care only works if people show up more than once, and Neko is designing for the second visit as much as the first. None of this comes cheap to build. Neko's US push follows a $700 million Series C, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by OG Venture Partners. The investor list reads like a longevity dinner party: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, tennis great Maria Sharapova, Tim Ferriss, will.i.am, restaurateur Danny Meyer. When people with that much money and that much choice about where to put it all land on the same preventive health company, it says something about where the smart capital thinks health care is headed. New York is just the opening chapter. Neko plans additional NYC locations, then Miami, then Washington DC and San Francisco, all within the next year. The longevity angle nobody should skip. Here's the part that matters most for anyone thinking about healthy aging: most of the diseases that shorten its lives don't announce themselves early. Heart disease, metabolic decline, some cancers - they build quietly for years before symptoms show up, and by then, the cheapest and easiest window to intervene has often closed. A yearly, deep-dive body scan doesn't replace your doctor. But it does something longevity science has been pushing for over a decade: it moves the moment of discovery earlier, when there's still time to actually change the trajectory. That's the real product Neko is selling. Not a scan, but time.