African health start-ups are vying for ideas that will allow people and practitioners to be better informed and exchange information while simplifying the patient’s experience: from making appointments to paying for telemedicine consultations and delivering medicine.
Underinvestment
Although 180 start-ups were active in 2020, according to data from Attali & Associates, only 13% of the sector’s innovations were conceived in Africa. African health start-ups raised $141m last year through 52 deals, according to French investor Partech.
The sector attracted investors’ attention in 2020 thanks to the global pandemic, however, it is still suffering from underinvestment. Here are five major health entrepreneurs who are determined to fill the gaps in a system that currently only has one doctor per 1,000 inhabitants.
1. Jean Lobe Lobe – Waspito (Cameroon)
Jean Lobe Lobe is not ashamed of the
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