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…

SA startup Akili Labs to exhibit affordable mobile lab at US tech conference

Award-winning SA biotech startup Akili Labs has been selected to exhibit their mobile laboratory at the Collision Conference, one of the fastest growing tech conferences in…

Call for submissions for $1m Al-Sumait Prize for African Development

One lucky African entrepreneur or innovator with a cutting edge health solution stands the chance to win up to $1-million in prize money, with the…

SA medical bookings platform Recomed set to announce new funding round

Cape Town based medical bookings platform Recomed is set to announce a new funding round led by local venture capital (VC) firm HAVAÍC, the startup’s…

These are the three trends likely to drive healthtech, disruption in the future

Innovation in health care is likely to be driven by three key trends in the future — an increasing demand for accountable care, the…

HealthTech app, platform builders face legal hurdles in SA, hear delegates

HealthTech app and platform developers in South Africa are being held back by rules and regulations, which has seen at least one locally developed…

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