WellaHealth enables access to affordable medicines in Nigeria by providing affordable micro healthcare plans that start at $ 1USD. They also provide pharmacy benefits management services for traditional insurers by aggregating >2,000 retail pharmacies.
PharmaServ is an offline-capable sales workflow-support software that manages sales and medical detailing operations as well as end-to-end visibility for field medical reps and medical sales managers to streamline the distribution of healthcare products across different territories. PharmaServ is building infrastructure to drive healthcare purchase automation across Africa, starting from Nigeria.
Pharmarun simplifies health access by using technology to connect people and businesses to medications through an online pharmacy. Pharmarun is building the largest medication inventory in Africa by aggregating multiple pharmacies, finance, and logistic partners.
Octosoft is a healthtech startup that digitizes the healthcare experience. Its app allows patients to book virtual or in-person appointments with quality doctors and enables providers to offer telemedicine and manage their practice. Octosoft also connects patients and providers with payers for underwriting and claims management.
Medpharma Alliance International Limited provides e-consultation, e-prescription, delivery of medicines and medical equipment, diagnostics, and storage of medical records through their mobile application, website, chatbot, and hotline platforms.
Healthtracka is a telehealth company focused on decentralizing healthcare in Africa by offering at-home lab tests, virtual doctors’ consultations, medication delivery, and vaccinations all on one platform. Over 70% of all medical decisions are driven by lab testing, yet access is limited. Healthtracka allows users to book lab tests on its platform, have their samples collected at home, speak to a doctor to review their results, and receive medications and vaccinations delivered to their homes. [
Field is a full-stack health-tech company in Nigeria and Kenya, offering a supply chain platform – Shelf Life – that combines digitization, planning, distribution, fulfillment, and financing for healthcare providers. It connects manufacturers to African patients, unlocking growth at a pan-African scale.
Famasi offers an operating system for pharmacies in emerging markets with three main products: DispensaryOS for inventory management and last-mile delivery coordination; RefillOS for ordering and tracking recurrent medications via web and mobile apps; and PrescribeOS, which provides APIs and a dashboard for remote patient care and medication delivery.
Drugstore is developing digital infrastructures that will speed up Nigerians' access to reliable, reasonably priced drugs, medical equipment, and vaccines. Through their pharmacy cloud inventory system and marketplace, they gather real-time information about available medications and their respective locations, allowing them to improve access to medications and give customers affordable options.
Aimcare is an early-stage pharmaceutical procurement platform for healthcare providers seeking medications, consumables, and small medical devices in Nigeria. They provide healthcare providers with access to safe pharmaceutical products via their comprehensive supply chain system. Their service model, which integrates flexible financing and on-demand delivery, allows them address the needs of pharmacies and clinics that are operating with limited resources, especially those at the last mile.
Tech Care for All (TC4A) Africa develops digital platforms connecting African healthcare professionals. Their premier product, the Medical Learning Hub (MLH), fosters online healthcare communities promoting collaboration, education, and engagement. Beyond providing continuous medical education, MLH offers unique online platforms for Pharma and Med Tech companies to present their innovations to Africa's healthcare industry. Additionally, these communities facilitate tech-driven distribution of health products to specific professionals.
SASA Health Ltd, a social enterprise, operates a telemedicine platform, SASAdoctor App, offering consultations, assessments, treatment plans, and lab test requests across Kenya. They also run licensed clinics, pharmacies, and a lab, partnering with nationwide clinics. They offer affordable healthcare programs for urban and rural workers, marketed through employers, insurers, and industry groups.
Kapsule provides a suite of services encompassing data capture, integration, analytics, and visualization. Their platform leverages devices to monitor supply chain quality, offering real-time tracking of location and telemetrics. Furthermore, Kapsule commercializes anonymized and aggregated market data along with clinical trial information on behalf of their software partners, all the while ensuring data privacy and security.
DMRx is a B2B pharmaceutical app sourcing medicines from registered suppliers and selling below market prices to healthcare facilities. Dawa Mkononi also provides purchase behavior analytics to buyers, aiding optimal inventory management and ensure fast delivery to increase medicine availability in African health centers.
CheckUps, a leader in urgent care and dispatch medicine, provides managed care services to informal sector workers and the elderly. For an annual fee of $50-$200, members gain quick access to healthcare at CheckUps centers or through at-home or workplace visits, delivered by a tech-enabled network of local freelance nurses.
BenaCare reduces the strain of long-term hospitalization for chronically ill patients through a mobile app that connects them with local healthcare workers. They offer caregiving skills and health education to families and host an online marketplace for affordable, gently used homecare equipment.
Afia Pharma is a last mile delivery fully licensed pharmaceutical e-commerce that provides patients 20 % discount of high-quality medications. Through web and mobile apps, including a pill reminder feature, Afia Pharma enhances adherence to medication schedules.
Tibu Health is an Omnichannel HealthTech platform that enhances the patient journey by connecting them to a diverse ecosystem of services and professionals within two minutes. Their virtual care platform is utilized to efficiently triage and link patients to the suitable level of primary care, offered across three platforms: Home/Office visits, Clinics, and Laboratory services.
UltraTeb is a B2B fintech marketplace for medical supplies in Egypt. The platform transforms the medical supply chain by directly connecting vendors, including manufacturers and importers, to business customers. It offers a digitized, efficient, and scalable solution that caters to both operational and financial needs of its users.
Reductiona offers a web platform that links users to digital coupons and discounts for medications. The service aims to alleviate healthcare expenses for individuals by aggregating a variety of cost-saving opportunities from a network of participating pharmacies.
Grinta is a managed marketplace that modernizes the pharmaceutical supply chain. They empower independent pharmacies by offering a seamless and easy-to-use experience, giving access to the full spectrum of traceable pharmaceutical and medical products from multiple vendors in addition to providing fulfillment, demand planning, and inventory financing to build a data-driven, reliable, and efficient pharmaceutical supply chain.
GICMED develops and provides a comprehensive suite of proprietary technologies aimed at combating the high mortality rate from breast and cervical cancers in Sub-Saharan Africa. These innovations encompass a telemedicine platform for remote healthcare access, a digital microscopy system for enhanced diagnostic accuracy, a smart speculum, a simplified biopsy device for efficient tissue sampling, and an educational 3D gamified platform.
Chefaa provides a GPS-enabled platform for patients to manage prescriptions and pharmacy needs, including ordering, scheduling, and refilling. Leveraging a comprehensive, patient-centric approach, it improves compliance and outcomes. As a data-driven solution, Chefaa digitizes the pharmaceutical industry, enhancing services for all stakeholders.
Chari Pharma is a B2B app providing integrated FinTech solutions for independent pharmacies across Francophone Africa. Their platform offers a POS software for digitizing store operations, inventory management, and product ordering. Additionally, pharmacies benefit from free deliveries and financial services like micro-credit and micro-insurance.
Welo Health is an app-based digital healthcare platform that provides on–demand remote consultations, diagnostic assessments, home care and medication delivery services, to corporate clients and health insurance companies. In addition, Welo provides an online dashboard for its corporate customers to track the overall health of their employees in real-time.
Pelebox, created by Technovera, is a self-service, smart locker system for safe and convenient chronic medication dispensing at public health facilities. Patients schedule and pick up their medication from lockers located in places like malls or bus stations. They access lockers using an OTP on their phones, with built-in cameras and sensors to ensure compliance and deter misuse.
Medical Diagnostech develops high-quality, rapid diagnostic tools for the detection of a variety of pathologies, including HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and COVID-19. Medical Diagnostech’s kits are designed to be affordable, user-friendly, and the company leverages its comprehensive distribution network to enhance accessibility of these kits in resource-limited settings.
BioCertica delivers a white-labeled SaaS app-based platform to institutions, including labs, research facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturers, governments, and universities. The BioCertica platform harnesses Direct-to-Consumer genetic technology, ensuring affordable genetic testing, remote counseling, and seamless data access. Beyond offering the service, BioCertica's platform underscores an ethical approach to engaging and managing volunteers and users who contribute their genetic data for research across the African continent.
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.
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