Neko Health, the preventive health scanning company co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, will open its first U.S. clinic in New York on September 24, TechCrunch reports. The location, at 300 Lafayette Street in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, marks the beginning of a planned American expansion for the Stockholm-born startup.
Neko pairs proprietary full-body scanning technology with bloodwork and data from customers' fitness devices to build a detailed picture of an individual's health, with the aim of catching problems early rather than treating them late. Visits are designed to be quick, with results reviewed alongside a doctor, part of the company's effort to make preventive checkups feel closer to a consumer product than a hospital visit.
The company is led by chief executive Hjalmar Nilsonne, who founded it with Ek in 2018; the pair spent years quietly developing the scanning technology before opening the company's first clinic in Stockholm in 2023, followed by an expansion into London. In both cities, appointments filled quickly and waitlists became a defining feature of the brand.
Demand has consistently outrun capacity in its existing markets. Neko has scanned about 100,000 people to date across Sweden and the U.K., and more than 25,000 New Yorkers had joined the waitlist for the SoHo clinic ahead of opening day.
The U.S. move follows a $700 million Series C round the company closed in July, giving it substantial resources to build out clinics in a far larger market. For Ek, who co-founded Spotify in 2006 and built it into the world's largest audio streaming service, Neko reflects a long-running conviction that healthcare should be oriented around prevention rather than late-stage treatment, and that better data collection is the way to get there. The company has framed New York as the start, rather than the extent, of its American ambitions.