2023 Growth Startups
Aurora Health Systems is a medical technology company developing medical devices paired with AI-based software support to help clinicians detect early signs of heart and lung diseases with greater confidence for timely intervention.
Baobab Circle is a health-tech company that developed the multi-award-winning digital platform Afya Pap, which leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide daily behavioural coaching, remote patient monitoring, and remote access to doctors.
Betalife Health promotes access to safe and adequate blood among Africans to alleviate blood shortages and address the spread of infectious diseases. The company works alongside the Federal Ministry of Health to achieve this goal.
Clafiya is a digital primary healthcare service that connects individuals and businesses to health practitioners to provide convenient, quality, and affordable, on-demand, in-person primary care from their mobile phones.
Dawa Health is a standardized mobile clinic that delivers maternal, neonatal, and pediatric health through an AI-powered health platform, point-of-care kit, first-level clinicians, and community health workers (CHWs) for emerging markets.
Dawa Mkononi is B2B mobile application created for health facilities and pharmacies to provide them with a marketplace for easy procurement of medications, online payment and getting medicines delivered.
Docthus is a digital healthcare platform that aims to revolutionize the traditional healthcare system by offering innovative tools and services that cater to the medical community’s needs. The platform includes features like a live surgery-sharing platform and an AI-based doctor-matching service.
ERA is a healthcare technology company changing how medical emergencies are managed in Africa, beginning in Nigeria. ERA saves lives by connecting the largest network of first responders, emergency vehicles and hospitals to anyone experiencing a medical emergency in minutes.
Famasi offers a last-mile care service for individuals in Africa who require regular medication. The company provides convenient and accessible support to patients and healthcare providers who require monthly medications. Famasi’s digital dashboards and APIs enable patients to order, track, and refill their prescriptions.
GIC Space is a company that has developed proprietary technologies, including a smart speculum, a digital microscopy system, and a simple biopsy device, enabling point-of-care screening and diagnosis for breast and cervical cancers in developing settings. This technology is particularly beneficial for women who live in remote and enclave areas with limited access to healthcare.
HealthStack is Africa’s largest connected digital health care platform accelerating and democratizing access to healthcare services in Africa. HealthStack helps healthcare organisations leverage technology to become more profitable and increase productivity while improving the quality of care and patients outcome.
Mscan has developed affordable, portable, and power-efficient ultrasound devices that work on laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. The devices are designed to meet the urgent need to extend ultrasound to pregnant women. Mscan’s ultrasound devices offer a cost-effective and convenient solution for healthcare providers, allowing them to perform ultrasounds using laptops and mobile phones.
Mara Scientific developed Mpeke HMIS, a hospital management information system designed to improve patient outcomes by providing medical personnel with visually descriptive data maps, intuitive workflows and compressive analytics. This platform exclusively covers features of any functional medical setting, i.e. patient, doctor, pharmacy, inventory, billing and accounting.
MedPack is a health-tech company dedicated to improving access to essential healthcare services in Africa. The company provides user-friendly websites and mobile applications that enable health facilities to manage their sales and inventory and order medicines from different suppliers. Medpack application makes it easy to order their prescribed medicines from trusted, registered pharmacies.
Neural Labs Africa is an innovative medical technology company using technology to democratize access to diagnostic healthcare in Africa. The company developed NeuralSight, a technology that Screens Medical Images for Radiologists and Hospitals in Real Time to Identify over 20 pathologies which are common indicators of Lung Cancer, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Prostate and Breast Cancer.
Oncopadi is a digital health company dedicated to improving cancer treatment in Nigeria and Africa. Our vision is to be Africa’s most connected and patient-centric platform, where online cancer care is as reliable as a good old friend. As Africa’s foremost digital cancer clinic, we are reengineering how cancer patients connect with specialists, survivors, and coping tools.
Palindrome’s used Predictive Risk Models and tools to improve the ROI of existing HIV programmes, matching high risk patients to high impact interventions.
Penda Health is a ‘brick and click’ healthcare company, leveraging tech, including telehealth, to serve Kenya’s fast-growing mass market. Penda clinicians, powered by Penda’s clinical decision support system, have completed more than 1 million world-class patient visits.
PBR is a life sciences real-world data and technology company that aggregates and standardize siloed, anonymised health data in Africa, leveraging AI/ML to support decision-making by the both the private and public sector in Africa.
The solution provided by the organization is innovative and unique for Kenya, but common in developed countries. The company uses technology to provide virtual health care and have partnered with physical clinics, licensed pharmacy and licensed labs throughout Kenya.
Sila Health makes it easy for migrants to send the care home through a conversational funnel that accelerates digital health adoption & simplifies payments for local care in Africa. Sila Health’s AI-powered product ecosystem automatically manages prepaid health plans, cutting overhead costs and connecting healthcare providers to patients quicker, for less.
Speetar is a patient-centred digital health platform that offers accessible, affordable quality healthcare in the adverse conditions of conflict-affected communities in Libya and other similar crises that often exacerbate existing healthcare inequities of marginalized and displaced communities globally
Teheca is a digitally managed marketplace that connects families to qualified nurses through a digital platform. Teheca provides convenient access to a pool of qualified nurses who provide Bedside nursing, patient Care, & Supportive Post-Birth care services at home or in the hospital.
Tricog is a medical technology company in the Cardiovascular domain utilising advanced AI and Medical Tech to deliver services. Tricog is focused on improving cardiac outcomes globally by accelerating cardiac diagnosis and treatment.
VIEBEG is a data-driven procurement platform that ensures that healthcare provides always have sufficient medical products in stock to treat their patients properly. Products are provided via equipment financing and BNPL.
Waspito is a telehealth platform that improves access to healthcare by providing teleconsultation services, mobile laboratory and pharmacy services with a first-of-its-kind social health network to keep users engaged.
Wazima Health is an integrated TeleHealth remote monitoring and health management solution for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Women’s health in Sub-Saharan Africa. The organization provides point-of-care screening, access to early diagnosis and doctors, EHR, referrals, medicines, and support for continuous care.
WeCare is a leading health professional booking & e-consultation platform in Ethiopia with a transaction-based business model, with a product for health professionals & patients solving their core-challenges
YeneHealth is a femtech startup in Ethiopia that aims to increase access to health information, products, and services for women of reproductive age. The company is pioneering a new era of health-tech services and unlocking the digital door of healthcare services for African women by leveraging an easy-to-use web and mobile application.
Zuri Health is a virtual hospital (Super Health App) providing affordable and accessible healthcare services to patients across Sub-saharan Africa via mobile app, website, Whatsapp bot and SMS service.
Patients can chat and consult with doctors, buy medication from pharmacies, book labs and diagnostic tests, and even visit a doctor at home via the mobile app.
2023 Scale-Up Startups
Benacare delivers quality and affordable clinical and supportive care to people with life-limiting illnesses in the comfort of their own homes. The organization has an online platform that connects buyers of homecare equipment with sellers of used and affordable homecare equipment, such as hospital beds and oxygen concentrators.
Deaftronics is a sustainable social enterprise is pioneering an affordable, holistic method to reduce hearing loss and reverse the burden of hearing loss at all stages of life. Deaftronics has developed low-cost, rechargeable hearing aids called mDREET that use solar technology.
GeroCare leverages technology and traditional family values of adult children caring for their parents to provide a home-based structure for eldercare in the communities where it has operated for 5 years. Its cloud-based platform makes it extremely easy for Africans within and outside their home countries to subscribe for regular doctor home visits.
GOAL 3 is putting health workers in control through the IMPALA system. The IMPALA system is a smart, data-driven technology for patient monitoring, patient management, and decision support, enabling healthcare workers in low-resource settings to achieve more with less, reducing mortality, and saving lives, time, and costs.
Guild Digital is a company that adapted a digital global good, Community Health Toolkit (CHT), and developed a solution for refugee environments called, the refugee setting Community Health Management Information System (rCHMIS). GUILD DIGITAL solution is built to address strategic and operational gaps in the general mandate to address humanitarian health system challenges in Uganda.
“JoCare” is an initiative to help people access sexual and reproductive health information, services, and products, including those with disabilities. The initiative sells innovative tools such as “JoCare” Playing Cards, calendars, and puzzle games. One unique aspect of “JoCare” is that it has been delivering sexual and reproductive health information, services, and products for two years, both online and offline.
Doktorconnect is a digital health platform that provides access to advanced comprehensive wellness checks, personalized plans, genetic analysis, and consultations with licensed doctors virtually and in person. The platform utilizes breakthrough cognitive science methodologies and health coaching best practices to create healthy behaviours.
Kapsule is a company that drives forward the 3A’s: Affordable, Accessible and Authentic healthcare worldwide, starting in Africa. Kapsule achieves this by equipping healthcare providers, government bodies and multinationals with systematic healthcare data to close supply and demand gaps.
Render Health is a healthcare savings and financing company that aims to improve financial access to healthcare in Nigeria. Their Render Health Savings Card allows individuals to save for healthcare expenses and includes overdraft benefits to cover unexpected expenses at no interest.
Vula’s purpose it to get patients access to the right healthcare by running software that connects health workers.