About the accelerator
The HTHA Accelerator program supports healthtech startups and scale-ups that are committed to solving Africa’s most pressing healthcare challenges through partnerships with governments and the public sector.
We provide a supportive peer and partner ecosystem, exclusive access to government stakeholders, and tailored resources to foster innovation, promote scalability, and drive the development of impactful health technologies in Africa.
We work closely with government partners to create opportunities for ventures to demonstrate their solutions and achieve meaningful public health outcome.
Our Goals
The HealthTech Hub Africa aims to support local authorities in addressing major health challenges in low-income and underserved populations through catalytic partnerships. Our core goals are to:
Support local startups to deliver impactful, data-driven HealthTech innovations that generate evidence on reducing health inequities.
Create a launchpad for local HealthTech solutions with regional and global potential by fostering dialogue and partnerships among innovators, policymakers, funders, and researchers.
Inform forward-looking health policies on the use of data and technology in public health systems.
Growth Startups
Growth-stage startups are pre- or post-revenue African-registered companies led by African founders, operating in one of HTHA’s four priority thematic areas.
These ventures offer products or services that generate measurable health benefits and demonstrate a rigorous approach to impact monitoring, whether at the client, patient, community, or health worker level.
As part of the cohort, startups will refine their business models, validate their solutions, and explore integration opportunities within public health systems.
Benefits to Startups
Expert-led masterclasses
Media training, public speaking, and pitch preparation
Peer learning and community engagement opportunities
Invitations to networking meetups and regional hybrid events
Free access to legal, accounting, marketing, talent, and fundraising support
Access to the HTHA Impact Framework and training on its use
Product demos and pitch opportunities at HealthTech summits in Kigali
1:1 mentorship with experts in public health and technology
Guidance on public-private partnerships and digital health strategies
Access to pro bono tech credits, advisory, and market support
Structured growth support through an interactive business modeling Platform
Scaleups
These are post-revenue African-registered startups led by African founders, operating within one of the four thematic areas.
Scaleups are expected to offer evidence-based products or services with proven positive health outcomes, supported by strong impact tracking.
The program supports scaleups in validating and integrating their solutions at scale within one or more public health systems in Africa.
Benefits to Scaleups
All benefits offered to growth startups
Additional investment readiness support
Advanced media training and exposure
Free access to premium legal, marketing, and fundraising service
Currently, the HealthTech Hub Africa focuses on the following four thematic areas with impact goals for public health systems:
Virtual Health
Proactive and Preventive Health Management Solutions that empower individuals and communities to manage health and prevent illness
Virtual Care
Diagnosis, Management & Treatment Solutions that improve diagnosis, treatment, and management of health conditions.
Data-Driven Decision
Making Solutions that strengthen public health systems by improving data use and system processes
Climate and Health
Innovations responding to climate-related health challenges and vulnerabilities.