AccessAfya operates a network of asset light clinics and pharmacies in low-income areas in Kenya, and a mDaktari virtual care platform. The mDaktari platform enables users to access telemedicine servi...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
AddPharma runs a distributor, retail, and online pharmacy businesses. Its retail arm is made up of nine physical outlets and one of the largest online platforms in Ghana. Through the online platform, ...Geographies: Togo, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, GhanaVIEW PROFILE
Afia Pharma is a certified pharmaceutical e-commerce platform that delivers medicines to patients' homes quickly, securely, and at lower cost. Users can also ask qualified pharmacists questions and pl...Geographies: RwandaVIEW PROFILE
Afro Health Connect is a web-based digital healthcare platform that enables users to access various services, including telemedicine consultations, home care, diagnostics bookings, and medication deli...Geographies: UgandaVIEW PROFILE
ApiAfrique manufactures innovative female hygiene and baby care products that are high quality, locally made, and reusable. The company also runs Weerwi, a menstrual awareness program, and just releas...Geographies: SenegalVIEW PROFILE
Apothecary is a retail pharmacy that offers pharmaceutical products and services through two physical outlets and an online platform. The company supports client needs through personal health consulta...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Applinic is a telehealth platform that connects patients to health services and providers, including physicians, pharmacies, and diagnostic centers. It offers teleconsultation and laboratory, radiolog...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Apteka Pharmasoft offers a data-driven vertically integrated software platform for the healthcare value chain in Africa. Apteka’s Pharmacy Portal is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for inven...Geographies: UgandaVIEW PROFILE
Aviro is an HIV-focused digital health company that uses technology and behavioral science to produce, improve, and scale patient support. Aviro’s pocket clinic is used to optimise patient on-b...Geographies: Kenya, South AfricaVIEW PROFILE
Babyl is a global telemedicine company with operations in the UK, Canada, US, Rwanda, Indonesia and Singapore. In Rwanda, Babyl uses voice calls to provide telemedicine services by connecting patients...Geographies: United States, Rwanda, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, United KingdomVIEW PROFILE
Biowin is a platform that supports health workers and patients access to medicines and lab services. The organization makes an online medical file available to prescribers which can be accessed from a...Geographies: MaliVIEW PROFILE
Byon8 is a telemedicine platform that offers an online symptom checker for self-assessment/prevention and online doctor consultations. The platform can keep track of users' health information, lab rep...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Chekkit provides manufacturers in pharmaceutical and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) with sticker labels and software packages that enable them to track products while also allowing their customers...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Click Medix is an all-in-one digital platform for telehealth and health management, used by health organizations in 25 countries to grow their reach. The platform includes modules for patient screenin...Geographies: Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Copia is a B2C platform that seeks to simplify e-commerce for 750 million middle to low-Income customers in rural and peri-urban dense areas. The platform lists a variety of product categories includi...Geographies: Kenya, UgandaVIEW PROFILE
Daktari Africa is a patient-centered telemedicine platform that connects people (in rural and urban areas) to doctors and other healthcare providers through online video consultations. Patients are al...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
DawaPay is an app-based marketplace that enables pharmacies to access and purchase inventory from licensed wholesalers. It actively negotiates with manufacturers that supply its wholesale partners to ...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Delivery Pharmacy is a single-outlet retail pharmacy with an e-commerce platform that lists health (OTC and prescription), beauty, and personal care products. Delivery Pharmacy can deliver across Keny...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
DiaspoCare’s mobile app connects African immigrants abroad with their families and providers in their home country by enabling seamless care coordination and real-time payments. This is achieved via...Geographies: Kenya, Ghana, NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
DKT Nigeria is leveraging technology to facilitate product distribution to providers and consumers through two digital services: DKT E-Shop and Honey & Banana Connect.
DKT E-Shop is a B2B dig...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Doctoora is a digital healthcare marketplace that connects patients with healthcare providers and services through a network of partner hospitals, doctors, and specialists for teleconsultations and ho...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Dokitari is a telemedicine platform that enables patients to connect with doctors and receive consultations and access and manage health records. Users are able to search for a doctor based on thei...Geographies: UgandaVIEW PROFILE
DRO Health is a digital healthcare player providing telemedicine services directly to consumers by offering remote consultations with qualified physicians, providing referrals for diagnostics tests wh...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
DrugNet, a retail subsidiary arm of Samospharma, facilitates drug fulfillment for individual clients, providers and payers. The platform enables customers to buy medications for delivery, access consu...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
DrugStoc works as a procurement partner for health providers, offering marketplace and fulfillment services to pharmacies, hospitals, and accredited drugstores. In addition to its marketplace services...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Drugstore is an online marketplace that bridges drug supply gaps for customers by partnering with several brick-and-mortar pharmacies. These partnerships allow Drugstore to fulfill customers’ orders...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
EHA Clinics is a chain of primary care clinics focused on ensuring healthcare access at affordable costs to patients in local communities across Nigeria. As part of its operations, EHA Clinics distrib...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
eHealth Africa facilitates improved access to medicines and health products by optimizing the distribution through LoMIS, a stock management tool for public sector actors. LoMIS is leveraged by govern...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Famasi Africa is a medication-management-as-a-service start-up that services patients with recurring medication needs. The startup obtains medicines from its network of suppliers and wholesalers and s...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Frank Health Center operates a digital health platform that allows users to access health products and services through underlying partnerships with pharmacies and health providers. In addition to bei...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Gerocare provides access to healthcare for underserved population segments through home care visits for elderly patients and through a telemedicine service called MEDRA Telehealth for residents in rur...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Gleeworld Pharmacy is a single-outlet retail pharmacy with online operations that allow it to cater to patients’ medication needs and to providers such as pharmacies, hospitals, and health maintenan...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Glovo is a lifestyle city mobile app that specializes in on-demand delivery service (quick commerce) via partnerships with businesses across various verticals (food, retail, and healthcare services). ...Geographies: GlobalVIEW PROFILE
Goodlife Pharmacy is a network of 79 retail pharmacies in Kenya and Uganda through pharmacies and shops located in gas stations. Beyond product sales, Goodlife Pharmacy offers vaccinations and lab tes...Geographies: Uganda, KenyaVIEW PROFILE
GoPharm provides clients with medication delivery and teleconsultation services. Clients can log in to GoPharm’s digital platform (website) to chat with pharmacists and doctors who provide prescript...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
Grace Health is a digital women’s health assistant accessible via an Android app. The app is optimized to operate in low-data environments and is designed specifically for women in emerging markets ...Geographies: Kenya, Nigeria, GhanaVIEW PROFILE
Health Online, formerly ePharmacy, is an online platform where patients can buy medicines and wellness products. Products are sourced from 15 partner pharmacies located in Greater Accra and delivered ...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
Health-E-Net's PaperEMR is a unique paper-to-digital approach to capture digital data directly from paper. The user-friendly, accessible technology is used, among others, by community health workers t...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
HealthKer is a multi-channel telemedicine platform that enables patients to engage with providers, laboratories, and pharmacies from the comfort of their homes. Patients request medicines, teleconsult...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
HealthPlus is an established pharmacy chain with 62 locations across Nigeria. The company has recently launched an integrated digital platform offering online pharmacy, telemedicine, and diagnostics s...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Healthy Entrepreneurs engages existing rural community health workers in a sustainable business by providing them access to low-cost, high-quality branded generics and other health commodities. The bu...Geographies: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, BurundiVIEW PROFILE
Hewale Social Health is a telemedicine platform for hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, and doctors to provide healthcare services to patients who can access services through the mobile app or web pl...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
HubCare Health is a digital healthcare platform that enables patients to access virtual consultations with doctors, purchase medications, and schedule lab tests and vaccinations. HubCare's online plat...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Hudibia is a digital healthcare platform that enables access to healthcare, health information, and medicines for end users. Its offerings include a telemedicine service that connects doctors to patie...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
inSupply Health is a health advisory firm that offers technical assistance in key supply chain areas of data visibility, analytics and use, health commodity demand and supply planning, market shaping,...Geographies: Kenya, TanzaniaVIEW PROFILE
Jacaranda strives to be a global innovation laboratory for women’s maternity care by operating a peri-urban maternity center and support services, including but not limited to, an artificial intelli...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Pharmacy retailers that predominantly operate offline can list their products on Jumia Marketplace to create an online sales channel and leverage Jumia’s e-commerce operations. Online pharmacy retai...Geographies: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Algeria, Ghana, Egypt, Uganda, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, Senegal, South AfricaVIEW PROFILE
Kasha is a mass market digital retail platform for women’s health and self-care products, information, and services. It is accessible on a basic mobile phone in urban and rural areas. It also has ex...Geographies: Rwanda, KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Konga Health is a health-focused subsidiary of e-commerce giant Konga, leveraging its parent company’s logistics infrastructure, technology, and payment systems to facilitate distribution of medicat...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Lifestores is building the digital infrastructure for a healthcare system that democratizes access to medical services and medications. Its marketplace enables pharmacies and hospitals to pool their p...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Magaani App enables access to medication for hospitalized patients and users who require medicines for treatment but are unable to physically patronize pharmacies to shop for these medicines. In addit...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Maisha Meds builds highly scalable technology systems for small, rural pharmacies and drug stores to manage sales and inventory, source quality medication, and facilitate digital reimbursement for hea...Geographies: Uganda, Zambia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, MyanmarVIEW PROFILE
MaiSoin connects patients to a network of qualified health professionals who provide home-based visits or online medical consultations. Patients can choose from general care or targeted programs for o...Geographies: Côte d'IvoireVIEW PROFILE
Medbay is a traditional wholesaler and distributor that operates a B2B marketplace platform to enable direct ordering and delivery of inventories to pharmacies. Medbay’s platform incorporates a cons...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
MedCart is an asset-light, app-based platform that enables customers to place orders for OTC pharmaceutical products with a focus on contraceptives and sexual and reproductive health. Products are sou...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Medikea offers a multi-service platform that enables users to book appointments with doctors, order pharmaceutical products, receive telemedicine services, and laboratory results and referrals. Teleme...Geographies: Uganda, TanzaniaVIEW PROFILE
Medikwick is a web and app based platform that helps patients find and locate medical services such as medical doctors, hospitals/clinics, medical diagnostic centers and ambulance services. Users can ...Geographies: UgandaVIEW PROFILE
Meditect is a digital health platform, which digitizes actors of the medicine supply chain in sub-Saharan Africa (patients, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies). The company's first product is a t...Geographies: Cameroon, Senegal, Côte d'IvoireVIEW PROFILE
Medixab is an e-commerce marketplace that allows vendors of pharmaceutical products (medicines and equipment) to list their inventory, targeting end users (for medicines) and providers (for equipment)...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
MedPharma’s operations are categorized into healthcare solutions for users (private healthcare insurance and telemedicine), logistics services (delivery of medications to the final consumer) and ent...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
MedPlus is a retail pharmacy chain with 77 outlets across 15 cities in Nigeria and a budding online pharmacy operation. In addition to its retail outlets, MedPlus has a wholesale business arm through ...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
MedRx is a digital platform that connects importers and wholesalers with retail pharmacies and patients with retail pharmacies. It offers a direct-to-pharmacy and direct-to-customer model where (1) a ...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
Medsaf is an end to end pharmaceutical supply chain optimization platform. Medsaf automates and finances the movement of medications with a suite of technological products and the core focus is on sup...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
MedSource Group aggregates purchases from vetted members (e.g., pharmacies, hospitals, clinics) and directs them to a select group of manufacturers and distributors. This pooled procurement process pa...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
MobiHealth connects patients to doctors and healthcare services, including medication delivery, through its online telemedicine service platform. MobiHealth’s telemedicine services give users remo...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
mPedigree offers smart labels for product (medicine) authentication, as part of an enterprise drug and product full supply chain visibility platform from point of manufacture to point of retail/dispen...Geographies: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan, Tanzania, Egypt, Kenya, Ghana, India, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Uganda, RwandaVIEW PROFILE
mPharma enables access to health products through a vast pharmacy operation across eight countries offering services to both providers and consumers.
For providers, it offers inventory managem...Geographies: Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, GabonVIEW PROFILE
MyBig Pharmacy is a wholesale-focused distributor of pharmaceutical products with operations running through a single-outlet location as well as an online e-commerce platform. While positioned as a B2...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
MYDAWA is an e-pharmacy that offers quality controls along the entire supply chain, from the manufacturer to the consumer, paired with a highly controlled quality of dispensing advice, and price reduc...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
myMedicines is an e-pharmacy operator that leverages an online-offline network of pharmacies to arrange for D2C distribution of medications nationwide. myMedicines also facilitates distribution for pr...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
myPaddi offers users online access to accurate and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and products. Through an online app, users can access medical information for their S...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Nello is a telemedicine platform that connects consumers to doctors via remote consultations while providing access to medication through its online store. Nello’s online store for medication is pow...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Nett Pharmacy is a chain pharmacy operator with 20 retail outlets across Nigeria. In response to the growing adoption of digital services, Nett Pharmacy launched the online component of its business i...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Nivi is a digital health company that empowers individuals with trusted, actionable and targeted information to help users achieve their own goals along their health journey. Powered by behavioral sci...Geographies: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, IndiaVIEW PROFILE
Njureel enables patients to book medical consultations with qualified professionals online or through a smartphone application. Through Njureel, users can remotely book consultations, speak to doctors...Geographies: SenegalVIEW PROFILE
OBM Pharmacy, a subsidiary of New Crystal Health, operates a wholesale business and retail pharmacy consisting of two pharmacies. OBM Pharmacy's online platform offers customers OTC products and alter...Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
OneHealth is an online pharmacy and healthcare platform. The business operates an offline retail outlet and an online e-pharmacy that provides last-mile logistics for its customers. OneHealth also off...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
OPISMS is an online platform that tracks vaccination records and provides reminders for upcoming vaccinations. The electronic vaccination record makes it easier for parents and health workers to verif...Geographies: Côte d'IvoireVIEW PROFILE
Oxycline Pharmacy is a single-outlet pharmacy with supplementary online pharmacy operations. It also provides users with telemedicine services, that allow them to consult with pharmacists who can shar...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Penda health operates 22 medical clinics that offer comprehensive outpatient services including consultations and lab and pharmacy services. In addition, the organization offers digital health service...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Pharmarun is an on-demand platform providing fast and easy access to medication by finding, financing and delivering the medication to users. ...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
In Nigeria, PharmaSecure offers product authentication software to drug makers, thus allowing users to verify the authenticity of drug purchases. Globally, PharmaSecure operates as a supply chain seri...Geographies: Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan, IndiaVIEW PROFILE
PharmaServ is a digital procurement partner for pharmacies and hospitals. Through its platform, providers can access suppliers’ inventory listings, place orders for their preferred products, and hav...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
PharmilyKe is a D2C online e-commerce platform for beauty, health, and wellness products. It works with partner pharmacies to fulfill and deliver pharmaceutical products with a focus on OTC products. ...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
PharmPlug is a consumer-facing digital marketplace for medicines. The company acts as a pharmacy aggregator, allowing other pharmacies and retailers across Nigeria to list products for sale on the pla...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
PharmXpress eases access to medication for customers by allowing them to purchase medicines online. As part of its service offerings, PharmXpress also offers free consultations by connecting customers...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Ponea Health is a one-stop digital healthcare platform that offers solutions for various providers (e.g., laboratories, pharmacies, clinics) to serve end users. Services offered on the platform includ...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Primacare Pharmacy is an operator with a physical location and epharmacy operations. The pharmacy began strictly as a community pharmacy with a single outlet in Rivers State, Nigeria, but has since ad...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Remedial Health is a drug distribution company with an inventory software system that can be used by pharmacies and clinics for inventory and stock management, employee management, and patient informa...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Rocket Health is an integrated digital healthcare platform that offers a suite of services to users, including telemedicine consultations, D2C last-mile delivery of pharmaceutical products, laboratory...Geographies: UgandaVIEW PROFILE
RxAll delivers batch quality-certified drugs to hospitals, pharmacies, and patients using their digital ordering platform. The company offers four main services: an on-demand delivery service (RxDeliv...Geographies: Kenya, Nigeria, United StatesVIEW PROFILE
Safari is a digital application to allow patients to find out about the availability of drugs in pharmacies using an instant message system to connect patients to pharmacies and dispensaries. Delivery...Geographies: BeninVIEW PROFILE
SASAdoctor is a telemedicine provider that operates a hybrid model of physical and virtual clinics, pharmacies, and labs. Physical operations are provided through three clinics, two pharmacies, and tw...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Shelf Life allows community pharmacies and drug stores to subscribe to full-service vendor inventory management services for up to 1,500 products in each market. For each subscription, Shelf Life cond...Geographies: Kenya, NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Sproxil offers several B2B services to the food and beverage, agrichemical, automotive, and pharmaceutical sectors, including smart labels for serialization, which can be paired with track and trace s...Geographies: United States, Kenya, Nigeria, IndiaVIEW PROFILE
Tanél Health has developed an easy to use, affordable, and reliable software which runs pharmacies. The software allows pharmacy owners to optimize inventory management, track sales and more. Tanél ...Geographies: SenegalVIEW PROFILE
Triggerise harnesses a technology enabled platform and consumer behavioral insights to motivate girls and women to adopt healthy behaviors, by connecting them to locally available products and service...Geographies: Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, India, KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Uthabiti retail shops have a SMS platform that enables consumers to verify the authenticity of any drug purchased from an Uthabiti shop. They also conduct awareness activities in communities of operat...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Vanguard Pharmacy is a retail pharmacy chain with emerging online pharmacy operations. The company operates seven outlets in Nigeria’s southwest region but is also growing its online operations thro...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Vanix is a B2B digital marketplace that connects pharmacies and hospitals to inventory and drug supplies from importers and manufacturers for wholesale purchases. Vanix has partnered with importers an...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Veezeta is an ecosystem that empowers patients across all aspects of their healthcare journey starting with doctors' consultations. Patients can book physical appointments at clinics, receive telecons...Geographies: Lebanon, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, JordanVIEW PROFILE
VIA Global Health is a B2B e-commerce platform that connects manufacturers with distributors in underserved markets with a focus on medical devices, equipment, diagnostics materials, and pharmaceutica...Geographies: GlobalVIEW PROFILE
Viamo helps donors, development agencies, NGOs, and global initiatives such as PEPFAR scale their impact by developing mobile technology products for feature phones in order to reach the majority of ...Geographies: Uganda, Kenya, GlobalVIEW PROFILE
Victory Drugs is a retail pharmacy operating through two physical outlets and increasingly leveraging digital channels to optimize distribution. Its digital channels consist of an online store where p...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
VigorGh runs a logistics-focused company and enables hospitals and pharmacies to offer telehealth, at-home lab testing, and delivery of health and beauty products....Geographies: GhanaVIEW PROFILE
WellaHealth offers telemedicine services to deliver care to patients remotely. It aggregates demand through its micro-insurance plans offered in partnership with AXA HMO while delivering health produc...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Weltel is a highly evidenced digitally-enabled patient support platform that is used in Africa (Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda), Europe (UK), North America (Canada, USA) and more. Patients enroll through their...Geographies: Kenya, United States, Rwanda, South Africa, Canada, Uganda, United KingdomVIEW PROFILE
Whispa Health offers sexual and reproductive health-related information, products and services via a mobile app. Its operations offer young people a shield of confidentiality to counter negative cultu...Geographies: NigeriaVIEW PROFILE
Xetova offers AI data and business analytics capabilities to clients across multiple sectors and access to financing. It provides ministries of health and national drug purchasing agencies with real-t...Geographies: KenyaVIEW PROFILE
Zuri Health is an offline and online telemedicine platform that offers teleconsultations, appointment booking, at- home lab and diagnostic services (including COVID-19 testing), and a service to locat...Geographies: Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, Ghana, South AfricaVIEW PROFILE
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