
Cardo Health is a digital health investment firm based in Stockholm, focused on early-stage AI startups with a specialized emphasis on healthcare and social impact. The company partners with visionary founders from pre-seed to seed stages, providing hands-on expertise from former McKinsey partners in AI development and go-to-market strategies. Cardo Health supports startups by connecting them to a global network and minimizing bureaucracy to empower founders. Their portfolio includes digital health companies across emerging markets such as Kena Health in South Africa, RetinIA and Zana in Mexico, doc-doc in Colombia, and Lumina in Spain, offering AI-driven telemedicine, mental health coaching, early disease detection, and personalized weight loss solutions. Cardo Health aims to scale these ventures to become local digital health champions, improving healthcare accessibility and outcomes in regulated and underserved markets.

Cardo Health is a digital health investment firm based in Stockholm, focused on early-stage AI startups with a specialized emphasis on healthcare and social impact. The company partners with visionary founders from pre-seed to seed stages, providing hands-on expertise from former McKinsey partners in AI development and go-to-market strategies. Cardo Health supports startups by connecting them to a global network and minimizing bureaucracy to empower founders. Their portfolio includes digital health companies across emerging markets such as Kena Health in South Africa, RetinIA and Zana in Mexico, doc-doc in Colombia, and Lumina in Spain, offering AI-driven telemedicine, mental health coaching, early disease detection, and personalized weight loss solutions. Cardo Health aims to scale these ventures to become local digital health champions, improving healthcare accessibility and outcomes in regulated and underserved markets.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Business: Digital health investor/operator focused on early-stage health/AI startups in emerging markets
Founded: 2021
Employee count: ≈9
Notable activity: Series A reported on 2022-01-11; active as an investor in portfolio startups
Digital health, AI for healthcare, improving access and outcomes in emerging markets
2021
Digital health / Healthtech / Venture investing
Series A round reported; public profiles show amounts obfuscated.
“Cardo Health acts as an investor/operator and has made investments into portfolio companies such as doc-doc, Lumina, and others.”