Neko Health, the preventive body-scanning company founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, filed San Francisco building permits at 100 Stockton St. — the only public confirmation of a Union Square clinic the company itself won't announce.

The first public confirmation that Neko Health is coming to Union Square is not a press release. It's a building permit.

On Tuesday, the preventive body-scanning company founded by Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek filed permits with the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection for a health and medical space on the first and third floors of 100 Stockton St., the SF Standard reported. Neko didn't respond to the Standard's request for comment; Kazuko Morgan of Cushman & Wakefield, the broker on the deal, declined to comment. The company has publicly named New York — its first U.S. clinic, due this year — and, per the Washington Business Journal, Washington, D.C. It has not announced San Francisco. The permit is the announcement.

Neko is not short on money. It closed a $700 million Series C on July 15, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by London's O.G. Venture Partners, at a valuation reported near $7 billion — a round that follows a $260 million Series B in January 2025, also Lightspeed-led, and brings the total raised past $1 billion. The scan itself is a leaner proposition than the valuation suggests. Neko sells a fast full-body workup — skin, blood, and heart data with an immediate clinician visit — for £299, about $309, in the U.K., per The Guardian. U.S. pricing is unannounced. It isn't covered by insurance, though it is HSA-eligible: a consumer wellness purchase, not covered care.

What's cleared for that money is narrower than "body scanner" implies. Two Neko devices — Derma-2 and Spectrum-2 — received FDA 510(k) clearance in May, but the full scan is not a single cleared screening service, and the U.S. clinics run direct-pay. Neko operates six clinics in the U.K. and two in Sweden, per the Standard.

It's also the second scanner outfit to circle these blocks. Midjourney, the AI-image company, has floated a spa concept with its own scanners a few blocks away at 300 Grant St. — but has filed no permits, only website renderings. Neko filed. That's the difference worth watching.

Still unconfirmed: the build's cost and permit valuation aren't in the public record yet, and neither is an opening date or a U.S. price. 100 Stockton has sat mostly empty since reopening in 2023. A permit says someone intends to change that. It doesn't say when, or for how much.