Fundz

Ai-Powered Retina Scanning Startup Mediwhale Raises $9M

PRIVATEApr 18, 2023

Amount Raised

$9 Million

Round Type

Funding Round

SeoulBiotechnologyHealth CareArtificial IntelligenceMedical

Investors

KKR

Description

Mediwhale co-founder and CEO Kevin Choi discovered that he had lost nearly half of one of his eyes from glaucoma when he was 24, which is rare in young people.

Quick answer

Mediwhale raised $9 Million in a Funding Round round, dated April 18, 2023. Investors: KKR. Mediwhale is based in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.

How much did Mediwhale raise?
Mediwhale raised $9 Million in a Funding Round round on April 18, 2023.
Who invested in Mediwhale?
KKR is named as investors in this round.
What does Mediwhale do?
Mediwhale is the AI-empowered health diagnostics company that uses non-invasive retina scans to help prevent heart and kidney diseases.
Where is Mediwhale based and how big is it?
Mediwhale is based in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.
Who are the decision-makers at Mediwhale?
Fundz holds 1 contact at Mediwhale. Names and contact details are shown to Fundz members.

Source: Fundz verified event record.

Who else raised in Medical and Biotechnology around the same time

Companies in the same sectors as Mediwhale that raised within 45 days of this round, from Fundz verified event records.

  • Lucem Health raised an undisclosed amount (Series A) on May 9, 2023.
  • Lucem Health raised $5.2M on April 28, 2023.
  • Health Plix raised $22M (Funding Round) on March 15, 2023.
  • Carrum Health raised $45M (Series C) on May 30, 2023.
  • Conformal Medical raised $35M on May 26, 2023.
  • Qnovia raised $2.9M on May 25, 2023.

Who to call at Mediwhale, and when

A new round usually means Mediwhale is about to hire and buy. The teams that reach out first get the meeting.

  • An alert the day Mediwhale raises, hires an executive or expands, scored against what you sell
  • The decision-makers there, with verified emails
  • Who you already know at Mediwhale, from your own LinkedIn network

Works inside ChatGPT and Claude. Ask who to call at Mediwhale. With Fundz connected, it knows.

Watch Fundz in
See plan options
Trusted byOracleSnowflakeCloudflareLinkedInGoogleSalesforce 4.8/5 on G2

Company Information

Company

Mediwhale

Location

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

About

Mediwhale is the AI-empowered health diagnostics company that uses non-invasive retina scans to help prevent heart and kidney diseases. Mediwhale’s Reti-Intelligence suite of services uses deep learning algorithms to detect disease risks even before symptoms appear. Mediwhale has been dedicated to making preventative care more affordable, accessible, safe, and convenient since being founded in 2016 in South Korea. Mediwhale has product approvals in 8 territories in Europe and Asia (including EU, UK, Australia, Korea), and is under FDA approval.

AI made execution free. Knowing first is the whole game now.

Fundz sees it the moment Mediwhale raises, hires an exec or expands, usually minutes after it happens, and tells you who to reach.

Related People

1 contact
Predictive Intelligence
Strategic

ML-powered predictions for Mediwhale's next move

See what Strategic adds

Mediwhale raised. Fundz records a round at a median of 3.6 minutes from the SEC filing, with the decision-maker attached.

145 of these a day, filtered to the companies you pick, with the decision-maker attached.

5 screens from a live account. No signup.

Fundz is a real-time business intelligence platform powered by agentic AI that proactively delivers personalized daily signals, including funding rounds, executive changes, M&A activity, 13F institutional filings, SEC 8-K events, investor activity, and website modifications, based on each user's watchlist and ICP. A trusted data source at firms such as BlackRock, Oracle, Kleiner Perkins, LinkedIn, HubSpot, and Cloudflare, Fundz democratizes the institutional-grade intelligence that previously required a PitchBook or Bloomberg terminal. Features include Daily Briefing for AI-powered daily briefings, and unified cross-signal alerts across 281,000+ organizations. Developers and data teams can access these signals programmatically via the Fundz Funding Data API, with transparent published pricing.