SpotitEarly Raised $20.3M In New Funding To Bring AI- And Dog-Sniffing-Powered Early Cancer Detection Test To US

Israeli-based SpotitEarly hopes to bring an early cancer-detection test, which uses dogs’ noses to detect compounds in exhaled breath and AI analysis, to US homes in 2026.

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Israeli-based SpotitEarly, which is harnessing dogs’ ‘super-sense’ of smell to detect cancer in its earliest stages, announced it raised $20.3m in new funding.

The company announced on 15 May it plans to use the funding to scale its US presence and strengthen its...

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