Every year, we select up to 30 startups solving the problems of product availability, accessibility, quality, affordability, visibility and waste management in health supply chains across Africa
Dr Sett manages biomedical waste through the supply of regulation-compliant packaging for waste collection as well as on-site collection of waste and disposal.
Sobrus leverages cloud-based solutions to connect pharmacies to wholesalers and laboratories through a digital marketplace as well as enable wholesalers and distributors receive, track and manage orders from pharmacies. Sobrus also offers a medical practice management software for practitioners enabling them to generate and deliver electronic prescriptions.
Medevice has developed three medical devices that support and improve diagnostic services. The M.M.P enables patients to monitor vital signs and report to doctors, the Spectro uses infrared technology to provide more accurate diagnostic results for COVID-19, and the Lab on Card machine uses isothermal amplification to support the interpretation of TB test results with the naked eye.
Deepecho is reducing infant and maternal mortality rates by leveraging AI technology for prenatal ultrasound imaging and diagnosis. The use of AI-powered technology for medical diagnosis ensures preventive and predictive detection of prenatal complications.
Meditect enables users to find the pharmacies through a locator service, and verify authenticity of health products through a counterfeit detection service. Meditect also provides pharmacies with a pharmacy management software, enabling them to connect seamlessly with patients, track chronic patients, and enhance customer loyalty.
Cure Bionics develops 3D printed and muscle-controlled bionic arms with multi-grip functionality and empowering aesthetics for below-elbow amputee adults and children aged 8 and above. Cure also leverages distributed and decentralized 3D scanning to enhance accessibility of its products, producing and shipping unit products in seven days.
Valorigo allows users to verify the availability of health products in their locality, compare prices, and receive referrals to the most appropriate pharmacy / drugstore. By democratizing product and price visibility for customers, Valorigo minimizes inefficiencies as customers access health products
Infiuss Health is a digital sourcing and delivery platform for blood, connecting hospitals with blood banks and facilitating the delivery of requests for blood. Requests can be placed by hospitals or patients, via an application or SMS.
Aviro Health’s “Pocket Clinic” solution leverages data, design, and behavioral science to provide a semi-automated experience for patients accessing common health services. The platform empowers patients with engaging automated counselling, reporting, and linkage to services via mobile phones or devices in facilities.
Appy Saúde aggregates stock information of pharmacies and allow users to conveniently find and purchase pharmaceutical products online and receive deliveries at home. Appy leverages its technology to help users to find the medicines they need at affordable prices without leaving the comfort of their homes.
Zinacare offers home laboratory testing services to users, enabling them order test kits for self-tests or book tests performed by health workers and get online results within 24 hours. Tests can screen for a variety of conditions, such as fertility, heart health, digestive health, STIs, cancers, coronavirus, etc.
Contro enables telemedicine by offering virtual consultations and prescription management services to users. The company also provides free, discreet nationwide delivery for sexual and reproductive health products, including birth control and STI treatments. The company has a secondary focus on healthcare data capture, management, and analysis.
VaxiGlobal uses contactless biometrics to ensure marginalized communities, with limited proofs of identity (e.g., migrants), can access and verify delivery of vaccines. VaxiGlobal’s technology captures and links beneficiaries’ facial biometrics to an electronic vaccination record (verification), enhancing visibility of vaccine movement, vaccination data quality, and minimizing vaccine wastage and fraud by accounting for every dose distributed.
Azanza Health improves access to specialist health imaging services by training general practitioners and radiographers in peri-urban and district clinics to perform ultrasound scans and ECGs using AI-enabled ultrasound probes. Images are then uploaded on the cloud with interpretation/reporting performed by remote specialist cardiologists, radiologists.
ClinicPesa leverages technology to offer health financing solutions to uninsured individual consumers, businesses, and healthcare providers. ClinicPesa’s suite of offerings include digital micro savings and medical loan top ups for treatments and purchase of medical supplies, restocking and operating capital for small and medium-sized clinics and hospitals.
Viebeg Technologies provides medical supplies and equipment on-demand to healthcare providers through its data-driven procurement platform, ensuring that they always have sufficient medical products in stock. The platform also has a credit scoring tool that enables providers access financing options (this includes equipment financing & BNPL for consumables).
Xetova offers AI data and business analytics and access to financing capabilities to clients across multiple sectors. It provides ministries of health and national drug purchasing agencies with real-time software-based product intelligence to optimize demand forecasting, large-scale inventory management, planning, and procurement to improve the supply of medical products across hospitals
Zuri Health facilitates remote access to healthcare services by offering tele-consultations, appointment booking and at- home diagnostics services. The company also enables users order medications (OTC and prescription) and locate pharmacies on its platform.
Negus Med Limited provides wound and surgical care device distribution services through an e-commerce and AI-integrated logistics platform, and a vast distribution network. The company also produces and distributes drapes and gowns for medical practitioners.
Signalytic enables access to digital technology solutions for remote health centers through S+, an integrated healthcare platform, providing them with real-time supply chain information within local health facilities. Powered by solar energy, the platform ensures sustained connectivity for these health centers.
Damu Sasa provides a cloud-based platform that enables real-time information sharing between front-line healthcare workers (FLHWs), allowing them to source critical products, especially during periods of emergency. Damu Sasa incorporates blood donor relationship management, inter-hospital collaborations and an internal management module that facilitates screening, inventory & transfusion management.
The Pathology Network (TPN) connects doctors, hospitals, and patients they serve to a global network of diagnostic pathologists. TPN uses technology to enable doctors to order tests for their patients, pick up samples, arrange processing and distribute it to a network of pathologists for reporting.
Advantage Network Holdings Ltd. (Advantage Health Africa) is a health tech business that provides an integrated technology-enabled suite of solutions through its subsidiary companies – myMedicines, an e-pharmacy operator that leverages an online-offline network of pharmacies to arrange for D2C distribution of medications nationwide, myCare, a B2B2C service that facilitates fulfillment of prescriptions and medications for payers (HMOs, insurers); myLabs, a diagnostics service that facilitates tests for patients by aggregating orders from patients and leveraging partner laboratories, myPharmacy, an offline franchise chain of pharmacies; and Advantage Pharma, a pharmaceutical marketing and distribution company with its own product line.
Erith Health Services provides health workers and caregivers with access to equipment and consumables such as personal protective equipment (PPEs), wound care products, and cancer medication. Erith maintains its own product lines as well as other generic products, allowing health providers and individual providers order and receive deliveries conveniently. Erith also provides online training to health providers on best practices in care and waste management.
OneHealth is an online pharmacy and healthcare platform improving access to medicines through an offline retail outlet and an online e-pharmacy that provides last-mile logistics for its customers. OneHealth also offers other telemedicine services, including laboratory testing and medical consultations.
Lifestores Healthcare democratizes access to medical services and medications through a digital marketplace that enables pharmacies and hospitals pool their procurement needs to access genuine medications more affordably. Lifestores’ software offering also enables healthcare providers optimize their operations, from automated re-ordering to embedded finance.
Disrupt Pharma Tech Africa (Medsaf) provides an end-to-end pharmaceutical supply chain optimization platform, leveraging software, logistics, financing, quality control and API plugins to automate and finance the movement of medications across Nigeria.
DrugStoc operates as a tech-enabled procurement platform for health providers, leveraging cloud-based solutions and data analytics to offer omnichannel marketplace and fulfilment services to pharmacies, hospitals, and drugstores. In addition, DrugStoc helps providers resolve cash flow constraints and enhance product affordability by offering stock financing and group purchasing services.
LifeBank enables last-mile delivery of critical health supplies, including blood, oxygen, medical consumables and equipment, to hospitals and providers. LifeBank's operations are anchored on its digital marketplace solutions and an efficient distribution network to guarantee fast and convenient access to critical products
Gricd offers cold chain solutions that help businesses track and monitor the location and storage conditions of temperature-sensitive products, in real time. Through Gricd’s devices and dashboards, customers, primarily pharmaceutical and agricultural producers/distributors, can monitor and record the location and temperature of their products to enhance planning and minimize losses
Chekkit provides manufacturers in pharmaceutical and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) with sticker labels and software packages that enable them to track products while also allowing their customers to authenticate them. Chekkit can also provide producers with serialization standards-based services with data matrix codes printed on product packages. Chekkit is now positioned as a technology solutions provider for pharmaceutical businesses that want to run product serialization and also acquire consumer intelligence. Chekkit also carries out consumer reward programs in tandem with its authentication services, to help drive customer engagement and help manufacturers develop market insights and targeted marketing campaigns.
Are you one of Africa’s most promising health tech startups, creating a solution to a health product distribution challenge in Africa?
Every year, we would select up to 30 startups across Africa with a strong interest in technology, health, and supply chain. Deadline for Applications is August 14th, 2022.
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