you(th) health technologyA 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 Caesars, Adesso Ventures, Antler, Moonstone, and 1024 Ventures. Angel investors also joined, including Jean-Charles Samuelian, founder and CEO of Elon and founding member of Mistral AI, and Patrick André, founder and CEO of Home2Go.
The growing interest in longevity among the younger generation, combined with the aging population, is driving the increasing demand for health checkups. However, research shows that approximately 60 percent of people avoid preventive tests due to friction, including long waits, high costs, and cumbersome hardware when it comes to screening.
U(th) aims to address this gap by using smartphone sensor data and machine learning to simplify preventive screening. Through inputs such as facial videos, voice recordings, eye and skin images, typing patterns and step data, the platform can assess a user’s health status in less than two minutes, identifying more than 50 digital biomarkers in more than 10 organ systems.
filippo nigroThe founder and CEO of You(th) said the company’s mission is to expand access to preventive care to billions of people around the world:
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 behavior, selfies, voice, typing into passive health checks and connecting them to real health care. Prevention should not disrupt life; It should move inside it.
By leveraging smartphones to reduce reliance on specialized hardware, needles, or clinic visits, AAP aims to enable frequent, low-friction health screenings related to cardiovascular, respiratory, cognitive, dermatology, metabolic, mental, and blood health. The platform is designed to estimate indicators such as blood pressure, oxygen saturation, respiratory symptom index, glucose, hemoglobin and cholesterol, cognitive age, skin condition and hydration levels.
To support further development of the platform, you plan to use the new funding to accelerate product development and expand your engineering, data science, and medical research teams.
