healthtech

Ghanaian startup mPharma raises $17m investment

Ghanaian healthtech startup mPharma has reportedly raised a $17-million investment. The Accra based medicine benefits and inventory manager, which was founded in 2013 by…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve shut down SA startup HealthQ, confirms CEO

Stellenbosch based tech company HealthQ will be shut down, as part of a restructuring involving its sister company US based biotech startup LifeQ, HealthQ…

Egypt’s Vezeeta raises $40m in Series-D round

Egyptian healthtech Vezeeta has secured $40-million in a Series-D round led by Gulf Capital, one of the Middle East’s largest alternative asset management firms….

IFC in call for East African healthtech startups to apply for TechEmerge programme

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched a call for healthtech startups in East Africa to apply for its TechEmerge Health East…

Kenya-based diagnostics startup Ilara Health raises $735k

Nairobi-based healthtech startup Ilara Health has raised $735 000 in seed funding from a group of angel investors and venture capital (VC) firms. The angel investors…

SA startup Healthcent nets R8m investment from Allan Gray, Umkathi Wethu Ventures

SA healthtech startup Healthcent announced today that it had secured R8-million in seed funding from black empowered holding company Umkhathi Wethu Ventures and investment firm…

Fintech accounts for over a third of SA tech startup investments in 2019 so far

Over a third of the over R500-million rand in venture capital (VC) investments directed to SA tech startups so far this year, has gone…

Founders Factory Africa, Netcare to help 35 healthtech startups scale across Africa

Venture builder and accelerator Founders Factory Africa and SA healthcare provider Netcare have partnered to provide a platform for entrepreneurs to build and scale 35 healthcare…

Merck is looking to partner with 20 healthtech startups in new programme

Merck has launched a joint startup programme, which will give 20 top healthtech startups an opportunity to partner with the German science and tech firm….

MMH Accelerator to offer up to €50k in funding to African healthtech startups

Selected Ghanaian, Kenyan and Nigerian late stage healthtech firms — including those solving for animal health — stand to benefit from up to €50 000 in funding from this year’s Making More Health (MMH) Accelerator programme.

Prize of $10k up for grabs for two startups in Seedstars Health Challenge

Seedstars has partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to identify innovative solutions to vaccine delivery and the malaria supply chain

Here’s all you need to know about the WHO Africa Innovation Challenge

Are you working on new solution that could help address some of Africa’s unmet health needs? Then you’re just the sort of innovator that…

Here’s all you need to know about the Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0

US-based pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has launched the second edition of its Africa Innovation Challenge and is calling on innovators from across Africa to…

Pick a sector, add internet and your firm could be worth millions [Opinion]

Given all the press, you would be forgiven for thinking that startups were have only become a thing in the last 20 years. The…

Ventures Platform backs healthtech startup MDaaS with $100k investment

Nigerian venture capital (VC) firm Ventures Platform has invested $100 000 into Lagos-based healthtech startup MDaaS Global. Ventures Platform founder and CEO Kola Aina announced the…

Cape Town set to host first SA Digital Health Conference this October

The first South African Digital Health Conference is set to take place next month in Cape Town. The conference — which is in an…

New market maps uncover over 50 startups, companies in SA healthtech

With advances in technology thanks largely to the uptake in smart phones, South Africa’s health-care sector is ripe for disruption, says Alex Fraser, head of…

All you need to know about Merck Accelerator’s Cape Town programme

Southern African startups involved in innovation around healthcare, life sciences, or performance materials have less than a month to apply for Germany-based Merck Accelerator‘s Cape Town…

As the Atlas Lions march into battle, learn how MedTrucks is disrupting healthcare

Morocco kicks off their 2018 World Cup campaign today at 5pm (Central African Time) when they take on Iran. The Atlas Lions currently on an 18-game…

HAVAÍC holds onto five investments despite two offers, says Ian Lessem [Q&A]

While Cape Town venture capital (VC) company HAVAÍC has yet to exit any of its five portfolio investments, it has had two opportunities to do so since…

Vula Mobile’s new revenue model, plans to raise $500 000, help 100k patients

Medical referral startup Vula Mobile is working on the development of a new partnership-based commercial revenue model, with plans to raise $500 000 and assist a minimum…

Digital Health Cape Town launches second call, adds incubation offering to support

South African health tech accelerator Digital Health Cape Town (DHCT) has opened a second call for applications which will now also include support for ideas in the…

MTN delays launch of 5G network to end of June

SA’s Pineapple, Tautona.AI make Sønr and Insurance Post’s Insurtech 100 list

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [05/06/2020]

UNOPS Global Innovation Challenge seeking solutions to address SDGs

New EA games and EA Access to launch on Steam

Huawei P40 Pro review: steadily built on compromise

Samsung Access turns the smartphone into a subscription service

BMW’s new 4 Series design is potentially divisive

Isuzu’s MU-X SUV gets upgraded safety features, design tweaks

The new BMW 5 Series is now a high-performance hybrid