News Summary

• Dognosis pairs sniffer dogs with sensors and artificial intelligence to flag early signs of cancer from a single breath sample.
• The premise is that tumours leave a chemical signature in exhaled breath, one a dog can smell long before conventional tools can see it.
• Dognosis raised a $1.5m pre-seed in 2024 and has since closed a further, undisclosed round, with Accel India and Caffeinated Capital among its backers.
• The roadmap is ambitious.
• Kulgod plans an at-home, multi-cancer prescreening test in India next year, priced at a few thousand rupees.