Prenuvo’s clinic in New York Metropolis, New York.
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Preventative well being startup Prenuvo on Thursday introduced it should provide three new well being assessments along with its flagship full-body MRI scan.
The corporate is launching an in depth blood check, neurological scan and physique composition evaluation that was permitted by the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration in current weeks. Prenuvo stated it needs to present clients an correct image of their well being, and that its sufferers have been asking for extra.
“They’ve come to the understanding and realization that the well being system shouldn’t be serving their wants because it pertains to conserving them wholesome,” Prenuvo CEO Andrew Lacy advised CNBC in an interview. “Customers are more and more in search of alternate options to allow them to keep on high of their well being.”
Prenuvo exploded in reputation due to its $2,500 full-body MRI scan that has been lauded by celebrities like Kim Kardashian. The corporate can test for a whole bunch of circumstances like most cancers, a number of sclerosis and aneurysms as soon as its customized, FDA-approved MRI machines scan an individual’s physique in an hour.
The total-body scan and the brand new blood check, neurological scan and physique composition report can be packaged collectively and supplied to clients for $3,999, Lacy stated.
Prenuvo MRI machine
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Prenuvo has surpassed 110,000 members, and the corporate generated $100 million in income final 12 months. It owns and operates 17 clinics throughout North America and plans to develop to fifteen extra areas within the coming months, together with websites in Europe and Australia, Lacy stated.
Lacy stated Prenuvo has grown shortly however is worthwhile.
Prenuvo has confronted criticism for its steep costs, and a few medical specialists have warned that the scans aren’t meant to interchange focused screenings and will trigger sufferers to hunt out pointless care.
Buyers are bullish anyway.
The corporate introduced Thursday that it closed a $120 million funding spherical, co-led by Left Lane Capital, Forerunner Ventures and its current investor, Felicis. Prenuvo will use its contemporary financing to help its product enlargement, its push into new areas and discover functions for synthetic intelligence.
A competing full-body MRI startup Ezra introduced a $21 million funding spherical final February.
Prenuvo has the biggest repository of whole-body MRI imaging on the earth, Lacy stated, which implies there are many alternatives for the corporate to construct fashions that make its exams extra correct and its 80 board-certified radiologists extra environment friendly.
The corporate’s new physique composition evaluation, which is named the Prenuvo Physique Composition report, makes use of AI to evaluate the amount and symmetry of muscle tissue and the distribution of fats within the stomach. Lacy stated muscle measurement and distribution is a number one indicator of mobility, and fats distribution can have an effect on danger of metabolic illness and heart problems.
“That is actually, actually essential info for sufferers who need to proactively handle their well being,” Lacy stated.
Sufferers won’t have to endure any further imaging for the Prenuvo Physique Composition report.
Prenuvo MRI machine
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Prenuvo’s new mind well being scan can also be imaging based mostly, and it offers sufferers a glimpse into their cognitive well being and performance, the corporate stated. The scan makes use of neurological sequences that Prenuvo developed in-house to evaluate blood move, the mind’s microvascular construction and establish any repetitive trauma from exercise like sports activities.
It requires an extra 10 minutes of imaging, and the sequences are already FDA permitted, Lacy stated.
The blood evaluation is new territory for the corporate, and it’ll test sufferers’ biomarkers to supply insights into hormonal, cardiovascular, metabolic and immune well being. Lacy stated the check might assist detect leukemia, a blood most cancers that may’t be recognized with imaging, as an example.
“Blood and imaging collectively is simply extremely highly effective,” Lacy stated. “It is not a case of 1 plus one equals two, it is one plus one equals 5.”
Initially, a phlebotomist, an individual who’s educated to attract blood, will come to sufferers’ properties to gather the blood pattern, Prenuvo stated. The corporate additionally plans to attract blood inside its amenities ultimately, however Lacy needs to supply a premium expertise that’s as calming and cozy as doable.
Sufferers can entry the brand new assessments at Prenuvo’s Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and New York areas beginning Thursday. Further areas will provide the assessments this spring, the corporate stated.
“Nobody goes to care about your well being greater than you do,” Lacy stated. “While you diagnose issues early, it is empowering. You are able to do one thing about it.”
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