Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America

Preventative healthcare investments are drawing significant attention, highlighted by Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raising $700 million to develop body scanning technology. This sector also includes Midjourney, which is building its own body scanner, and Function Health, which has raised substantial capital for its preventative-health platform. On an episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, host Dominic-Madori Davis discussed the consumer-health startup landscape with Preface Ventures founder and general partner Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health.

The conversation focused on how Neko compares to similar startups and the requirements for integrating body scanning into the broader healthcare system. The podcast is produced by Theresa Loconsolo, an audio producer based in New Jersey with a bachelor's degree in Communication from Monmouth University. Additional tech industry developments noted alongside the podcast release include viral AI agent Instinct raising a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation, Crusoe abandoning a $1.25 billion turbine plan for AI data centers, Waymo scaling its fleet, Oracle issuing a force majeure notice for a New Mexico data center, and Meta introducing Muse Charm.