Neko Health's $700M body scan bet lands in the US
Original: Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America
Why This Matters
A wave of capital is flowing into preventative health tech, testing whether body scanning can shift from luxury to standard care.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek's health startup Neko Health, which raised $700 million, has expanded to the United States. TechCrunch's Equity podcast examines how the body-scanning company stacks up against competitors like Midjourney and Function Health in the growing preventative healthcare market.
Neko Health, the preventative health company founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, has brought its full-body scanning service to America after raising $700 million. The company isn't alone — Midjourney is developing its own body scanner, and Function Health has also secured significant funding for its preventative-health platform, signaling broad investor appetite for the category.
On a recent episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, host Dominic-Madori Davis spoke with Farooq Abbasi, founder and general partner of Preface Ventures and a Neko Health investor. Abbasi walked through how Neko differentiates itself from rival consumer-health startups and laid out what conditions need to be met before body scanning can enter mainstream healthcare delivery. Key questions include insurance integration, clinical validation, and whether the scans lead to actionable outcomes rather than anxiety-inducing over-diagnosis. The episode runs approximately 30 minutes and is available across major podcast platforms.