At this year’s Africa Health Collaborative (AHC) Annual Convening in Nairobi, Kenya, these youth-led ventures advancing primary healthcare, entrepreneurship and health systems strengthening across Africa will showcase their innovations and solutions through interactive workshops and live demonstrations, while benefiting from mentorship and guidance from experienced experts.
By the numbers:
- 30+ Health Ventures
- 9 Partner Institutions
- 7 Countries
- 4 Innovation Stages
The ventures from Addis Ababa University are rooted in Ethiopia’s languages, communities and indigenous ingredients.
HerbIma
- Representative: Iman Redwan (Founder & CEO)
- Stage: Early Stage
- Venture Description: HerbIma turns indigenous Ethiopian Red Teff into Iron+, a plant-based iron supplement made with green bio-activation technology to be gentle on the stomach. It is designed to help women and adolescent girls manage anemia with a product that is culturally trusted and easier to stay on.
Tena Link
- Representative: Bernabas Petros Gemecho (Representative)
- Stage: MVP Stage
- Venture Description: Tena Link is a localized, multilingual, low-bandwidth digital health platform that brings trusted reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health information, counselling and community support to people across Ethiopia. Its culturally responsive content meets communities in the languages and contexts they live in.
AIMS brings high-level analytical and technical expertise to grassroots challenges.
Amani Health AI
- Representative: Nadine Cyizere Bisanukuli (Co-Founder)
- Stage: MVP Stage
- Venture Description: Amani Health AI is an offline, Kinyarwanda-first clinical co-pilot that gives Rwanda’s community health workers a second opinion on ambiguous and comorbid cases their national protocol was not built to cover. It runs on a basic Android phone, shows its reasoning and triggers referral when needed, so the health worker always makes the final call.
ALU’s venture brings immersive technology into the training of Africa’s future health workforce.
MediXR
- Representative: Jean Robert Gatwaza (Co-founder)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: MediXR is an immersive virtual and augmented reality platform that gives medical students and practitioners across Africa unlimited hands-on practice in anatomy, surgical procedures and expert-recorded operations. It runs on headsets or PCs and trains large cohorts practically and cost-effectively.
AMREF’s ventures reach people at home, in communities and in clinics, spanning home care, eye health, maternal wellbeing, medicine access and climate-smart food systems.
Benevita Home Health Care
- Representative: Mohamed Yunus (Chief Executive Officer)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: Benevita delivers doctor-coordinated nursing, post-discharge recovery and elderly care directly to patients’ homes in Nairobi. Licensed, vetted Kenyan nurses and a tech-enabled platform keep patients supported after they leave hospital, helping prevent complications and readmissions.
Eco Afya Organics Ltd
- Representative: Reginah Mugi (Co-founder)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: Based in Nakuru County, Eco Afya Organics diverts methane-emitting organic waste from dumpsites and turns it into agricultural bio-inputs: Afya Crop Grow, Afya Crop Booster and Afya Crop PestOff. The result is healthier soil, lower waste-related emissions and safer, more resilient food systems.
Eye Care on Wheels
- Representative: Ekisa Ambuchi Kennedy (Comprehensive Ophthalmologist & Cataract Surgeon)
- Stage: Early Stage
- Venture Description: Eye Care on Wheels is a social enterprise bringing screening, refraction, spectacles and same-day cataract surgery to underserved rural communities in Kenya from a single solar-powered mobile unit. Its on-site surgical theatre, AI-enabled diagnostics and tele-ophthalmology links, supported by Community Health Promoters, mean patients can be treated where they are.
HerWellness
- Representative: Taonga Nalungwe
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: HerWellness is a women-focused physiotherapy and wellness clinic in Zambia offering specialized maternal, pelvic, postnatal and women’s health rehabilitation. It fills a specialist care gap and has grown steadily since opening in 2025.
HotSpot Aerial Solutions
- Representative: Brandon Ochido (CEO)
- Stage: MVP Stage
- Venture Description: HotSpot Aerial Solutions uses drones and AI to pinpoint mosquito breeding sites in Kenya’s Lake region through its Maladrone application. Live, geo-referenced hotspot alerts reach local teams by USSD, so malaria control can target the exact places that matter.
MaggoCare
- Representative: Dennis Kioko (Co-founder)
- Stage: Early Stage
- Venture Description: MaggoCare is producing quality-controlled, medical-grade sterile larvae for maggot debridement therapy, a method that removes dead tissue, reduces bacteria and supports healing in chronic, hard-to-heal wounds. It aims to bring a low-cost, effective wound-care option into Kenyan health facilities.
N’Lishe
- Representative: Sheila Nyambugi (Founder)
- Stage: Early Stage
- Venture Description: N’Lishe pairs a Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS)-certified, whole-food nutritional supplement with practical nutrition education and follow-up from Community Health Promoters. Together they help pregnant and breastfeeding mothers stay consistently nourished in everyday life.
Salama Mama Initiative
- Representative: Valerie Cate Owidi (Founder & Executive Director)
- Stage: Early Stage
- Venture Description: Salama Mama is a maternal mental health service that screens, triages and offers virtual group support to mothers through pregnancy, postpartum and loss. Mothers are enrolled at the health facility and supported from a central hub, building mental health care into routine maternal care across Kenya.
Tahsma Healthcare Ltd
- Representative: Teddy Jeremy (Chief Executive Officer)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: Tahsma Healthcare is a Kenyan online pharmacy built around medicine on credit for people living with chronic illness. Patients order genuine medicine, receive fast delivery and repay in flexible instalments, with credit limits that grow as they use the platform.
Ashesi University’s ventures focus on keeping health systems working: affordable monitoring for mothers and reliable equipment for facilities.
Mama Monitor
- Representative: Juliann Mc-Addy (Founder & CEO)
- Stage: MVP Stage
- Venture Description: Mama Monitor is an affordable, portable, rechargeable fetal monitoring device that uses Doppler ultrasound to measure fetal heart rate without needing internet. It extends monitoring both within under-resourced facilities and between antenatal visits.
Pine Health Innovations
- Representative: Irene Taddese (Co-founder)
- Stage: MVP Stage
- Venture Description: Pine Health Innovations refurbishes and maintains medical equipment in Ghana, and fabricates subsystems and components locally where needed. Keeping equipment in service helps protect the continuity of patient care.
KNUST’s ventures combine plant-based science and wearable technology to support everyday wellness and neurological care.
Dielle
- Representative: Deborah Jessica Oppong (Founder & Hair Coach)
- Stage: Scale Stage
- Venture Description: Dielle is a plant-based hair-care brand with eight science-backed products designed specifically for African and textured hair. Alongside its range, practical hair-care education helps women restore hair and scalp health and feel confident in caring for their natural hair.
Metagrade Company Limited
- Representative: Edmond Osei Kwabena Agyapong (Founder & CEO)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: Metagrade develops affordable, plant-based sugar alternatives, including VeriSweet, made from stevia and erythritol. It gives consumers in Ghana a satisfying sweet taste while helping them reduce their reliance on conventional sugar.
SeizureGuard
- Representative: Aseda Boatemaa Tweneboah-Koduah (Founder & CEO)
- Stage: Early Stage
- Venture Description: SeizureGuard is developing a discreet wearable EEG cap with an AI-powered platform for continuous seizure monitoring, early detection and prediction. It aims to give people living with epilepsy accessible, personalized care outside the hospital.
Moi University’s ventures bring youth-led digital tools and off-grid technology closer to people who live far from clinics.
CONTRA-AID
- Representative: Bonventure Machuka
- Stage: Early Stage
- Venture Description: CONTRA-AID is a youth-led digital health venture developing an inclusive, culturally adaptive smartphone and USSD platform for personalised contraceptive guidance and integrated primary healthcare services. Piloted in West Pokot and Busia Counties, it is designed to reach underserved and humanitarian communities, including people with low literacy.
DawaPoint
- Representative: Alvin Cheruiyot Kiprop (Co-founder)
- Stage: Early Stage
- Venture Description: DawaPoint is developing a solar-powered automated kiosk that brings chronic-care medication for HIV, hypertension, diabetes and epilepsy to the markets and bus stops where rural Kenyans already are. Patients verify by biometrics, see a remote clinician by video and collect a one- to three-month supply, with health institutions rather than patients covering the cost.
UCT’s ventures drive prevention from the ground up: mental wellness, nutritious urban food and science-based enterprise.
City Green Urban Farms
- Representative: Andile Xaba (Project Lead)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: City Green Urban Farms grows organic produce, eggs, fish and herbs, and makes wellbeing tonics, using a circular, controlled-environment approach designed for urban spaces. It also trains communities in agroecology, widening access to affordable, nutritious food.
Connctd
- Representative: Katlego Motlogelwa (CEO)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: Connctd is a South African digital wellness platform that moves mental health from crisis response to prevention. Users can book registered counsellors and coaches, join live workshops and community spaces, and use self-guided tools at a price young people and families can afford.
Foi Science
- Representative: Nomahlubi Nompunga (Scientist)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: Foi Science is an African science-to-enterprise platform that combines practical training, biopolymer technologies, AI tools such as SkinWise and product development support. It helps innovators turn health, skincare and wellness ideas into validated, market-ready products and sustainable enterprises.
Working in close partnership with African institutions, the University of Toronto’s ventures use digital tools to strengthen pharmacies, language access and chronic care.
Drugstore.Ng
- Representative: Adeyemi Olutoye (Founder)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: DrugstoreNg is building an operating system for Nigeria’s pharmacies. Virtualrx is an offline-first point-of-sale and inventory system that keeps working through power and network outages, and the Drugstore.ng marketplace routes orders from HMOs, clinics and consumers to pharmacies that can fill them, so medicines are reliably available.
Indigenius AI
- Representative: Olayinka Iyinolakan (Co-founder & CEO)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: Indigenius AI builds multilingual voice AI agents powered by its own African language models, so healthcare providers can talk with patients in their preferred language. The agents automate scheduling, intake, medication adherence and follow-up, and the models are developed with native speakers and linguists for under-served languages.
Pana+Care
- Representative: Beverly Senda (Founder)
- Stage: Growth Stage
- Venture Description: Pana+Care is a managed care platform that helps community clinics in Kenya deliver structured, continuous care for hypertension, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases. It is built around a 90-day care cycle, with Community Health Promoters supporting follow-up and the PanaLink decision-support tool aligned to Kenya Ministry of Health guidelines.
These ventures represent the future of African healthcare innovation: locally grounded, founder-led and designed to solve real-world challenges.
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