The African public health NGO African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref Health Africa) has selected six Subsaharan startups out of a total of 300 to take part in its entrepreneur coaching programme named Innovate for Life Fund Accelerator.

The selected tech companies operate in the health sector and their particularity is that they have developed innovative products that improve primary health service in Africa. Those companies are namely from Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Among these startups, there are Baby Grubz, a Nigerian startup specialized in the commercialization of food products to fight malnutrition among children.

Its peer Tiny Hearts Technology created a device used to treat newborn babies with jaundice while the Zimbabwean Wastinnova transport and recycle health-care waste. There is also Joelex Uganda Ltd that builds toilets and shower rooms and transforms wastes into ecological charcoal.

After six months of training, the six startups will join the Amref Health Africa. The NGO launched its programme Life Fund Accelerator in 2017 to push African entrepreneurs in developing technology solutions in the health sector.

Chamberline Moko