YOU(th) Health Tech, a digital health company focused on
expanding preventive care globally, has announced $4.5 million in funding. The
round was led by Callisto Health, with participation from caesar., adesso
Ventures, Antler, Moonstone, and 1024 Ventures. Angel investors also joined,
including Jean-Charles Samuelian, Founder and CEO of Alan and founding member
of Mistral AI, and Patrick Andrae, Founder and CEO of HomeToGo.
Growing interest in longevity among younger generations,
combined with an ageing population, is driving increased demand for health
screenings. However, research suggests that around 60 per cent of people avoid
preventive tests due to friction at the point of screening, including long wait
times, high costs, and cumbersome hardware.
YOU(th) aims to address this gap by using smartphone sensor
data and machine learning to simplify preventive screening. Through inputs such
as face videos, voice recordings, eye and skin images, typing patterns, and
step data, the platform can assess a user’s health status in under two minutes,
identifying more than 50 digital biomarkers across over 10 organ systems.
Filippo Nigro, founder and CEO of YOU(th), said the
company’s mission is to expand access to preventive care to billions of people
worldwide:
Everyone talks about prevention, yet only about 8% screen
at the optimal frequency because time, cost, and friction get in the way. We
remove those barriers by turning everyday phone behaviour, selfies, voice,
typing, into passive health screening, seamlessly connected to real healthcare.
Prevention shouldn’t interrupt life; it should run inside it.
By
leveraging smartphones to reduce reliance on specialised hardware, needles, or
clinic visits, YOU(th) aims to enable frequent, low-friction health checkups
spanning cardiovascular, respiratory, cognitive, dermatological, metabolic,
mental, and blood health. The platform is designed to estimate indicators such
as blood pressure, oxygen saturation, respiratory symptom index, proxies for
glucose, haemoglobin, and cholesterol, cognitive age, skin condition, and
hydration levels.
To
support further development of the platform, YOU(th) plans to use the new
funding to accelerate product development and expand its engineering, data
science, and medical research teams.