Preventive health technology is coming to one of the biggest healthcare markets in the world.
Neko Health, the Swedish health-tech company co-founded by Spotify founder Daniel Ek and entrepreneur Hjalmar Nilsonne, is officially opening its first U.S. clinic in New York City on September 24, 2026.
The location, at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo, will introduce Americans to the company’s signature Neko Health Scan: a roughly 60-minute, non-invasive, radiation-free health assessment that collects millions of data points across the body and delivers results during the same visit.
The price?
$499.
And interest is already substantial.
Neko says more than 25,000 New Yorkers have joined its waitlist, while more than 350,000 people have joined a waitlist or registered for a Neko scan globally.
The New York clinic is only the beginning. Additional New York locations and Miami are planned, with Washington, D.C., and San Francisco expected to follow as Neko begins a much larger push into the American preventive-health market.
The bigger story isn’t simply another longevity clinic opening in Manhattan.
It’s the attempt to make an extremely data-rich health screening feel as straightforward as getting an annual physical.
What Is Neko Health?
Neko Health launched its first clinic in Stockholm in 2023.
The premise is relatively straightforward:
Instead of waiting for symptoms to appear before investigating someone’s health, collect a large amount of information while they’re still feeling healthy and look for potential problems earlier.
Neko built proprietary hardware, software, sensors and clinical protocols around that idea.
Its scan evaluates several areas of health, including:
- Cardiovascular health
- Blood biomarkers
- Skin and moles
- Circulation
- Body composition
- Metabolic health
The experience is designed to happen in approximately one hour, with results available during the visit rather than arriving through a patient portal days or weeks later.
After the testing is completed, a clinician reviews the findings with the patient and discusses what they mean.
That last part is important.
Neko isn’t simply handing someone a massive dataset and sending them home.
The company’s model combines technology + diagnostics + an in-person clinical consultation.
What Happens During a Neko Health Scan?
The experience is designed to gather a broad snapshot of someone’s health in a relatively short amount of time.
Neko’s technology captures millions of data points across the body.
Its skin imaging system can rapidly photograph and map visible moles. Cardiovascular measurements examine the heart and circulation. Blood is drawn and analyzed, while body-composition measurements provide another layer of metabolic information.
The process is non-invasive aside from the blood draw and does not use ionizing radiation.
That makes Neko fundamentally different from companies offering MRI-based full-body scans.
Prenuvo, for example, has become one of the best-known companies in preventive imaging by offering whole-body MRI scans intended to look for potential abnormalities.
Ezra has similarly used MRI and AI-assisted imaging as part of its approach to early detection.
Neko’s approach is different.
Instead of relying primarily on medical imaging, it combines numerous measurements across cardiovascular health, skin, blood, circulation and body composition.
In other words, it’s less like getting one giant scan and more like completing multiple components of a health assessment within one highly engineered visit.
Why Neko Is Coming to America
The U.S. healthcare market is enormous, but preventive care can also be fragmented.
A person interested in getting a more comprehensive picture of their health might undergo bloodwork at one location, cardiovascular testing somewhere else, see a dermatologist separately and use consumer wearables to track daily activity and recovery.
Neko wants to consolidate more of that experience.
When the company first announced its U.S. expansion in January, it said more than 300,000 people had signed up globally for the Neko Body Scan. It also reported delivering six times as many scans in 2025 as it did in 2024.
By August, the company said more than 100,000 people in Sweden and the U.K. had already completed a scan.
That growth helps explain why America is next.
New York’s first clinic will be one of Neko’s largest.
The two-floor SoHo location will contain seven scan rooms and occupy a prominent position at Lafayette and Houston Streets.
Neko is also emphasizing design.
The company wants its clinics to feel fundamentally different from a traditional doctor’s office—part medical facility, part high-end technology experience.
That’s becoming an increasingly familiar strategy in consumer healthcare.
Neko Is Entering a Growing Preventive-Health Market
Neko isn’t alone in betting that consumers will pay out of pocket to understand their health before something goes wrong.
As Vital Report has previously covered in its look at Neko Health and the rise of high-tech preventive health scans, the broader wellness industry is increasingly moving beyond fitness tracking and toward technology designed to identify potential health risks earlier.
Function Health has gained attention for providing extensive biomarker testing and longitudinal health data, while Superpower has built another technology-driven approach around lab testing, health data and personalized recommendations.
Prenuvo and Ezra focus more heavily on advanced imaging, while wearables from companies such as Oura and WHOOP have helped normalize the idea of continuously monitoring health and recovery outside the doctor’s office.
Neko sits somewhere between these categories.
It’s not continuous monitoring like a wearable. It’s not simply blood testing. And it isn’t primarily an MRI service.
It’s an in-person preventive health assessment built around Neko’s own hardware and software.
That could give the company an interesting position as preventive healthcare becomes increasingly consumer-driven.
Your Wearable Data Is Becoming Part of the Picture
Neko is also beginning to connect the occasional clinical snapshot with the data people generate every day.
In 2026, the company expanded its scan experience to incorporate wearable information and body-composition analysis. Neko says wearable integration can provide clinicians with additional information about what happens between visits.
That represents an important shift.
A traditional physical might tell a physician what your blood pressure, weight and bloodwork look like on one specific morning.
A wearable can provide information collected across hundreds of days.
Combining the two potentially gives clinicians something much richer:
Clinical measurements + longitudinal lifestyle data.
That’s where the future of companies like Neko could become particularly interesting.
Instead of treating an annual scan as an isolated event, each visit could become another data point in a continuously developing picture of someone’s health.
The $700 Million Bet on Preventive Healthcare
Neko’s American expansion comes with significant financial backing.
In July 2026, the company announced a massive $700 million Series C funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners.
The company said the capital would help fund its U.S. expansion and further development of its preventive healthcare technology.
The financing also included participation from a striking collection of high-profile investors, including Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Tim Ferriss, Maria Sharapova, Thierry Henry, will.i.am, Danny Meyer, Claudia Schiffer and Matthew Vaughn.
For Neko, the funding provides the resources to build something that is considerably harder to scale than a health app.
Every new market requires physical clinics, specialized equipment and medical staff.
But owning the entire stack is also part of Neko’s strategy.
The company develops its own hardware, software and clinical protocols rather than simply combining services from third-party providers.
That gives it more control over both the medical workflow and consumer experience.
What Does Neko Health Cost in the U.S.?
The U.S. Neko Health Scan costs $499 and takes approximately one hour.
That pricing is noteworthy when compared with some other consumer preventive-health services.
Full-body MRI services can cost significantly more, while concierge medical programs can run into thousands of dollars annually.
Neko is attempting to position its scan as something consumers could realistically repeat.
And repeat visits appear central to the model.
Neko says 75% of members book and prepay for another scan at the end of their first appointment.
That’s significant because longitudinal data may ultimately be more useful than a single snapshot.
Instead of asking only whether a measurement falls inside a population reference range, repeated testing can potentially reveal how your own baseline changes over time.
New York Is Just the Beginning
Neko’s SoHo location officially opens September 24, 2026, at 300 Lafayette Street.
But the company’s American ambitions extend well beyond Manhattan.
Neko has announced plans for additional New York locations, followed by expansion into Miami, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
That geographic strategy makes sense.
These cities have significant populations already interested in longevity, wearables, advanced diagnostics and preventive medicine.
If the New York launch succeeds, Neko could become one of the most visible companies trying to bring a more technology-driven annual health assessment into the mainstream.
The Bigger Question: How Much Screening Is Actually Helpful?
There is also an important distinction between more health information and better health outcomes.
Preventive screening can identify important risk factors and disease earlier. But screening broadly can also produce incidental or ambiguous findings that lead to additional testing, anxiety, expense or unnecessary procedures.
That’s why the clinical layer of Neko’s model matters.
A sophisticated scan shouldn’t be interpreted like a consumer fitness score.
Health measurements need context: age, medical history, symptoms, family history, medications and other risk factors can change what a result means.
Neko’s decision to pair its technology with an in-person clinician consultation is therefore one of the most consequential parts of the experience.
The value isn’t simply collecting millions of data points.
It’s determining which of those data points actually matter.
The Bottom Line
Neko Health’s U.S. launch is another sign that preventive healthcare is becoming a major consumer technology category.
For years, people have used smartwatches and rings to quantify what happens between doctor’s visits.
Now companies are bringing that same data-heavy philosophy into the clinic.
Neko’s first American location will open in SoHo on September 24, offering its one-hour scan for $499, with more than 25,000 New Yorkers already on the waitlist.
The company is already preparing to expand beyond New York.
But the more interesting question is what happens if this model works.
An annual physical has traditionally been a relatively low-tech snapshot.
Neko is betting that the future looks very different: millions of measurements, proprietary sensors, wearable data, immediate results and a clinician helping turn all of it into something understandable.
Spotify’s Daniel Ek helped build a company that changed how millions of people consume music.
Now Neko Health is trying something considerably more ambitious:
changing what it means to get a checkup.