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Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York

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6:00 AM PDT · August 18, 2026

Neko Health’s promised U.S. expansion arrives on September 24, when the health-scanning startup opens its first American office. It will be located in SoHo, Manhattan’s home of luxury shopping, at 300 Lafayette Street.

Neko was founded by Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, who serves as Neko’s CEO. The company says that more than 25,000 New Yorkers have joined a waitlist.

As we previously reported, Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it pairs with bloodwork and data from fitness devices to assess a person’s health. Currently, the startup has locations in the U.K. and Sweden. When it raised a $700 million Series C last month, it said that 100,000 people already had scans.

Neko is among a growing number of health scanning companies created by tech founders or backed by VCs. For instance, Midjourney, the...

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