Ahead Health, a Zurich-based preventive healthcare firm, as we speak proclaims that it has raised €5.1 million ($6 million) in funding to scale its European growth by signing up extra accomplice clinics throughout Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, improve its platform, introduce new testing modalities and develop its engineering group.
The spherical was led by RTP International, with participation from Tiny.VC, Pareto 20, and entrepreneurs together with Kai Eberhardt (Oviva), Stef van Grieken (Cradle), Sara Hürlimann (Zahnarztzentrum), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Michiel Bakker (MIT, DeepMind), and Cody Gakpo (Liverpool FC).
Nick Lenten, CEO and co-founder at Forward Well being, says: “Nicely-analysed knowledge for preventative well being functions is already making a large distinction, with 25% of those that have used our providers discovering a medical challenge that was beforehand unknown to them. Subsequent to that, we additionally uncover extra longevity-focused insights – as an illustration when our MRI evaluation pinpointed the basis reason for my very own nagging decrease again ache, which then allowed me to deal with the problem.
“We’re thrilled to welcome new funding as we enter a brand new stage of progress and plenty of extra individuals will expertise such aid consequently. All of us need to have the ability to elevate our grandkids after we’re 70, and early detection is the important thing.”
Forward Well being’s spherical comes amid regular funding exercise throughout Europe in preventive healthcare, diagnostics and longevity-focused HealthTech throughout 2025.
In Switzerland, Zurich-based Aeon raised €8.2 million to scale its AI-driven preventive well being platform, underscoring sustained investor curiosity within the Swiss market. Within the UK, longevity and diagnostics gamers attracted vital capital, together with GlycanAge, which secured €7.4 million to increase glycan-based ageing diagnostics, and Numan, which raised €51.6 million to broaden its preventative digital healthcare providing.
Elsewhere in Europe, Spain-based Holo raised €1 million to develop its personalised lab testing and health-tracking platform, Poland’s Holi closed a €3 million spherical to increase its digital weight problems therapy clinic, and Dutch males’s well being startup Fellos raised €2 million to scale its telehealth providers.
In adjoining monitoring and diagnostics, Swiss wearable know-how firm Liom secured €13.9 million to advance steady glucose monitoring.
Taken collectively, these rounds characterize over €100 million invested into preventive, diagnostic and proactive healthcare startups in Europe throughout 2025, positioning Forward Well being’s elevate inside a broader sample of capital flowing into data-driven early detection, biomarker evaluation and preventive care fashions – notably notable given the continued focus of exercise in Switzerland.
Vinsensius Vega, CTO and co-founder at Forward Well being, provides: “Proprietary, hard-to-get knowledge is the place we imagine the AI-puck goes. We need to assist individuals securely and safely construct that knowledge set, and assist make sense of it – embedded within the native healthcare system they’re a part of.”
Based in 2024 by ex-Google executives, medical medical doctors, and healthtech builders, Forward Well being combines preventive check-ups comparable to MRI scans, superior blood assessments, and CT-scans right into a single AI-powered platform to democratise entry to stylish preventative healthcare.
It interprets biomarkers (naturally occurring indicators within the physique which may point out illness) into personalised, actionable insights. The corporate says this will result in detection of situations like most cancers, mind illness, endometriosis, and cardiovascular points years sooner than conventional healthcare.
Crucially, Forward Well being’s full-body MRI scan and blood assessments take simply half-hour.
Jelmer de Jong, Associate at RTP International, says: “There’s huge untapped potential within the preventative well being area, which is shortly rising as probably the most thrilling functions of AI in healthcare. Nick and group mix operator expertise with healthcare experience to maintain constructing on their success and serve the rising variety of customers putting a precedence on proactive well being administration. We’re very proud to again them on their journey.”
As a licensed medical follow, Forward Well being operates by way of partnerships with clinics throughout Switzerland and Germany, combining medically rigorous testing with an AI platform that constantly learns from each analysis and particular person well being patterns.
