Deadline: January 17, 2025
Applications are open for the HealthTech Hub Africa Accelerator Program 2025. For the 2025 cohort, they are looking for ventures from Africa with innovative solutions (including hardware, software, data analytics and AI solutions, biotech, etc.) and business models allowing for collaboration with local and national governments and aiming to solve health challenges and/or support public health systems in their digital transformation,
Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant health challenges, bearing 24% of the global burden of disease with only 3% of the global health workforce. Limited resources and financing hinder access to quality healthcare services. At HealthTech Hub Africa (HTHA), they believe that innovative, tech-enabled models of care are essential to overcoming these disparities.
Benefits
Participation in an 8-month Accelerator Program, which includes:
- Access to office and meeting space at Norrsken House, Kigali.
- Eligibility for exclusive funding opportunities throughout the year and as a HealthTech Hub Africa alum.
- Diagnostic panels, expert masterclasses and self-paced online content.
- Dedicated mentorship from industry experts in population health and technology.
- Public speaking and pitch practice sessions.
- Investment readiness support and access to HealthTech Hub Africa’s Investor Circle.
- Community support, peer learning and collaboration opportunities.
- Networking meetups and hybrid events in Kigali and across Africa.
- Opportunities to attend and pitch during the annual HealthTech Hub Africa Investor Summit.
- Opportunities to engage with relevant government ministries, departments and agencies involved in healthtech.
- Support to understand national digital health strategies and roadmaps and to develop public-private partnerships.
- Introduction to digital interoperability standards (e.g., HL7 FHIR, Open HIE, WHO SMART Guidelines).
- Access to the testing environment of the HealthTech Hub Africa Standards & Interoperability Lab to support public sector integration.
- Access to opportunities provided by the HealthTech Hub Africa partner network, including startup awards, research opportunities and funding opportunities.
Eligibility
- Be African registered.
- Team: at least 2 full-time members with at least one founder who is an African national or permanent resident of an African country.
- Internal note: This will be scrutinized during the review stage to ensure the African Founder has meaningful engagement in the work (not just added for the purposes of the application).
- Aligned with one of more of the four HealthTech Hub Africa thematic categories.
- Post-revenue/ seed stage.
- In operation for at least one year.
- Already working or intending to work with the public (i.e. government) health sector, alongside other private sector business models.
Application
For more information, visit HealthTech Hub Africa Accelerator.
