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Ilara Health, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, focuses on enhancing healthcare access in rural Africa by developing and distributing AI-powered diagnostic devices. These compact devices are designed for primary care doctors in peri-urban and rural clinics, providing accurate and affordable diagnostic services. Ilara Health integrates its technology within a proprietary platform that connects to an electronic medical record system, allowing healthcare providers to efficiently record and manage patient data. By leveraging existing healthcare infrastructure, Ilara Health aims to improve the accessibility and affordability of diagnostic services in underserved regions.

Lapaire Glasses Kenya Ltd. is a manufacturer and seller of eyeglasses, including prescription glasses and sunglasses, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. The company aims to improve access to affordable eyewear for the lower and middle-income populations in Africa, specifically targeting the 550 million people who need eyeglasses but face barriers to obtaining them. Lapaire offers free vision tests through mobile clinics and an online platform, along with 24/7 chat support, free delivery, and flexible payment options. Its services extend to customers in several African countries, including Uganda, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, and Mali. By leveraging innovative technology, Lapaire is committed to enhancing eye health and vision for its clients.

Waspito is a healthcare platform and app that offers services like online consultation, medicine delivery, specialist doctors, and others.

Zanifu is a regulated financial technology company that focuses on providing inventory financing for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. The company’s platform facilitates access to working capital by enabling small retailers to procure inventory from suppliers with the option to pay later. Designed with a mobile-first approach, Zanifu's platform is tailored to function effectively in areas with limited internet connectivity, thereby enhancing efficiency in supply chain operations. By addressing the financing needs of MSMEs, Zanifu plays a crucial role in supporting the consumer goods value chain in the region.

Waspito is a healthcare platform and app that offers services like online consultation, medicine delivery, specialist doctors, and others.

Credable is a digital banking platform that aims to provide financial services to underbanked populations in emerging markets. By partnering with financial institutions and businesses, Credable enables the launch of various financial products, including credit, savings, and payment solutions, on its B2B2C digital infrastructure. This approach connects financial institutions to their customers, empowering end-users with access to essential financial services. By leveraging its platform, Credable allows its partners to concentrate on their core operations while expanding their offerings in the financial services sector.

Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients. Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other . Suppliers list their products and connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.

Yodawy Inc. is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup based in Giza, Egypt, founded in 2018. The company offers a mobile app that allows customers to browse and order pharmaceuticals and personal care products, with delivery facilitated through a network of over 500 pharmacies across the country. Yodawy's platform features an artificial intelligence-powered approval engine that streamlines the medicine ordering process, automatically applying insurance and copayment benefits from four major insurance carriers, with plans to onboard additional providers. Additionally, Yodawy provides a digital prescription app and a pharmacy portal, enhancing the overall experience for patients seeking convenient access to medications and healthcare products.

Ubie, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing artificial intelligence-driven healthcare solutions. Its primary product is an AI symptom checker, designed to aid hospitals and physicians by delivering individualized evaluation reports based on patient responses to a brief questionnaire. The system tailors its questions according to various factors, including biological sex, age, medical history, and lifestyle choices. By providing a patient summary and predictive diagnosis, Ubie's technology enhances the diagnostic process, facilitating more personalized care for patients.

Reliance Health is a healthcare technology company focused on improving the affordability and accessibility of healthcare in emerging markets. The company employs an integrated approach that combines affordable health insurance with telemedicine services and a network of both partner and proprietary healthcare facilities. This model aims to provide comprehensive care for individuals, families, and organizations, effectively addressing their health concerns through managed care solutions.

Revital Healthcare is a manufacturer of medical devices and disposables for hospitals and other medical laboratories. It offers single-use syringes, needles, re-use prevention syringes and auto-disable syringes which helps in reducing the transmission of HIV and other blood-borne diseases along with infusion sets, blood transfusion sets and blood collection tubes The company was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Kilifi, Kenya.

DrugStoc is a pharmaceutical product procurement platform designed to improve the purchasing experience for healthcare providers in Africa. By offering a seamless end-to-end procurement system, it enables hospitals, pharmacies, and government facilities to access safe and high-quality pharmaceutical products. The platform aims to enhance the availability of medications and healthcare consumables, helping to eliminate counterfeit drugs and simplify the procurement process. DrugStoc's commitment to improving access to affordable healthcare products supports healthcare providers in their mission to deliver better health outcomes across the continent.

Rology is a teleradiology platform based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2017. The company addresses the global shortage of radiologists by efficiently matching hospitals with available radiologists based on their specializations. This service aims to reduce latency in reporting times for medical examinations such as CT and MRI scans, which have seen increased demand. Rology's platform enhances radiologists' productivity by incorporating an AI-powered DICOM reader, allowing for quicker case reviews and improved patient outcomes. By facilitating timely and remote consultations, Rology plays a crucial role in ensuring that patients receive prompt diagnostic reports regarding their health issues.

Shezlong is an online mental health platform based in Cairo, Egypt, and is recognized as the first and largest online psychotherapy service in the Arab world. Founded in 2016, Shezlong connects users with over 350 licensed therapists, facilitating private and convenient access to professional counseling in Arabic. The platform serves a diverse clientele, reaching over 100,000 users across 85 countries, primarily targeting Arabic-speaking individuals in the MENA region. Users can access a range of services, including informative blogs, psychometric tests to assess their mental state, and personalized therapist recommendations. Shezlong allows clients to book sessions and communicate with therapists through video, ensuring confidentiality and privacy. By empowering therapists and providing comprehensive mental wellness resources, Shezlong aims to be an integral part of its users' daily routines, promoting better mental health and well-being.

Sendy Ltd. is a logistics platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2014. The company specializes in providing door-to-door delivery services for e-commerce, facilitating logistics optimization for manufacturers and distributors, and connecting businesses with various transporters. Sendy's platform simplifies the delivery process by allowing businesses to schedule, track, and pay for deliveries in one place, while also offering cashless payment options through mobile technology. With thousands of companies utilizing its services, Sendy aims to empower businesses and individuals by making trade more accessible and efficient.

Reliance Health is a healthcare technology company focused on improving the affordability and accessibility of healthcare in emerging markets. The company employs an integrated approach that combines affordable health insurance with telemedicine services and a network of both partner and proprietary healthcare facilities. This model aims to provide comprehensive care for individuals, families, and organizations, effectively addressing their health concerns through managed care solutions.

DentaCarts is an online dental marketplace based in Nasr City, Egypt, that connects dentists with vendors across the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on revolutionizing the procurement and supply chain processes in the dental sector. It offers a wide range of products, including restorative, endodontics, prosthetics, periodontal, surgical items, implants, orthodontics, consumables, instruments, and dental lab services. DentaCarts operates a B2B e-commerce platform that features over 30,000 listed products and collaborates with more than 150 agents and suppliers, serving over 3,000 dental businesses in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Germany. The company leverages advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and Internet of Things solutions, to streamline order management and automate supply chain processes, aiming to lead the dental supplies market in the region through its innovative digital solutions.

Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners, and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets. The company is also preparing to enter the agro-trading space by creating a marketplace that links farmers with buyers all over the world. The marketplace will effectively eliminate the high cost of middlemen for smallholder farmers and significantly improve profits. Ife Oyedele ll and Obi Ozor founded it in 2017 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

MyDawa is an innovative online pharmacy that facilitates the purchase of a wide range of high-quality medications and wellness products through a mobile platform. By connecting patients directly to drug stores, MyDawa provides a convenient solution for accessing essential health products without incurring service fees, transaction costs, or delivery charges. This approach aims to make medications more affordable and accessible while addressing the challenges present in the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Africa Healthcare Network (“AHN”) has established the first dialysis chain across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing high-quality, life-saving dialysis at affordable cost. AHN brings world-class technical expertise combined with developing world practical operating experience to a region in dire need of quality dialysis treatment. Dialysis is a life-saving treatment for patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The few hospitals that provide treatment operate centers that are slowly deteriorating while charging prohibitive prices. Additionally, the lack of trained professionals and limited capital investment in care for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, dialysis centers are few and far between, causing patients to endure the high costs for travel to receive care. Those who cannot afford the costs of treatment and travel are resigned to death. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and AKI are on the rise in the region due to strong epidemiologic factors, including increased urbanization leading to lifestyle diseases, other non-communicable diseases, HIV and other infections and toxins. Utilizing our network of executives/partners, we will secure high-quality equipment and train professionals to provide superior care. Our ability to source lowest cost consumables, operational efficiency and scale, will allow us to lower the cost to patients. The net result is increased access, higher quality and lower cost to patients, while maintaining profitability. AHN operates in Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya.

Jibu provides a comprehensive, turn-key start-up package for local entrepreneurs to start their own neighborhood businesses by treating and packaging water in reusable bottles. 450 million East Africans do not have reliable access to safe drinking water. Jibu currently works within this emerging market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda and plans to expand to surrounding countries in the coming years. Jibu provides seed-financing and support to equip East African entreprenerus with the materials needed to launch safe drinking water franchises. Jibu offers an opportuntiy for local entrepreneurs to make drinking water 75% cheaper than bottled water, at the same price as boiling water, but with the convenience of door-side delivery and the aspirational association with bottled water.