Inside Neko Health's vertically integrated push to make prevention affordable

Key points

Key takeaways from an Upstarts Media interview with Neko Health CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne (October 2026):

Democratising prevention. Neko's stated mission is to democratise preventive healthcare, and it does so by completely reinventing how prevention is delivered — an approach built on full vertical integration.

Vertically integrated model. Neko claims to be the world's only vertically integrated healthcare provider: it builds its own diagnostics, runs its own clinical studies, writes its own software and operates its own clinics with its own staff.

New York expansion. The company has just opened a clinic in New York City, extending its scan-clinic network beyond Stockholm and London as part of a large US expansion.

The Neko Health Scan. A ~25-minute scan maps the key markers for long-term health across cardiovascular, skin, blood and other areas; Nilsonne calls it the most valuable hour you can spend on your health.

Data to insight. After the scan, prevention-trained clinicians turn the collected data into personalised insights, with a full 20–30-minute conversation covering results — including blood results — before the patient leaves.

Full picture in under an hour. Patients are in and out in less than an hour with a complete picture of their health, a radically different experience from conventional healthcare that is possible only because Neko controls every component of the service.

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