Top 30 Medical Startup Investors in Nigeria in October 2023

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• CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
• Enflame — Suiyuan Technology is a provider of neural network solutions for artificial intelligence. Its products are deep learning high-end chips developed for cloud data centers, and are positioned on artificial intelligence training platforms. The chip will adopt a unique and innovative architecture independently developed, featuring high computing power,high energy efficiency ratio, programmable, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is designed and optimized for cloud AI training.
• Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
• Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
• Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.

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• Assis — Assis goal is to empower business owners by helping them grow their companies through technology that gives customers an amazing experience each and every time they connect with them.
• Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
• Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

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• Bankly — Bankly is a digital savings and peer to peer transfer product where users fund their wallet using tokens available on Bankly vouchers nationwide in a “Recharge to save” model. This cash digitisation system is similar to the telco mobile airtime top up and is currently available on MTN and 9mobile networks in Nigeria.Financial services has to beseen through the lenses of a fast moving consumer product in order to reach the last mile and the use of vouchers has been proven to be a successful cash digitisation system by the telecoms industry. Leveraging this existing consumer behaviour to drive financial inclusion, reduce cost of financial services and create a foundation to provide other financial services is where Bankly identifies huge potential and is poised to make an impact.
• Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
• Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.

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• Shabodi — Enterprise Software, SaaS, PaaS, 5G
• NotiSphere — Notisphere enables medical device suppliers to communicate product recalls electronically and receive and track the acknowledgments received from healthcare providers. Its platform enables two-way real-time communications and allows fora reduced cycle time to execute on recalls. The NotiSphere platform allows providers to only receive recall alertsthat directly affect them. This results in fewer patients exposed to recalled items, significant reduction of effort by providers to execute on recalls, and significant savings to both suppliers and providers.
• Gradient Health — One of the biggest barriers to accelerating AI development is access to large datasets of labeled pathologies.

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• SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
• Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
• Wallets — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.

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• CribMD — CribMD is Uber for Doctors, we do Doctor House Calls and Telemedicine in Africa. Using technology, we make it easy to get care from the comfort and safety of your home, on your schedule.At CribMD, we're retooling every step of the care process, from affordability, patient-provider matching, to billing, & health record management. Throughthe touch of an app or a click on our site, an affordable, highly-vetted, qualified medical doctor will arrive at your door, twenty four hours a day, 365 days a year.The CribMD experience brings preventive, primary, and urgent care to a patient’s doorstep. We empower our medical teams to develop deep patient relationships through unhurried visits, comprehensive care, and immersion in the patient’s home environment. We invest heavily in the patient experience while minimizing overhead and paperwork, and through this model we have achieved some of the highest patient satisfaction scores in the industry and 5 star ratings on care gap closures.

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• GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
• Healthtracka — Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days
• Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.

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• Gozem — Gozem is a transport technology platform for Francophone West and Central Africa.
• CrowdForce — We empower businesses to drive mass adoption of digital, and financial services to underserved population in their communities.
• RelianceHMO — RelianceHMO is solving this problem by providing affordable and reliable insurance packages for the average African. Reliance makes health insurance in Africa cheaper and easier to access by combining Telemedicine with data science.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
• Kenzz — Kenzz is an e-commerce platform bringing shopping to the mass market in Egypt and MENA.
• Meliora Therapeutics — Bringing together modern molecular fingerprinting, machine learning, and cutting edge biology

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• HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
• Helium Health — Helium Health is taking hospitals and clinics digital in Africa with a suite of software tools. It specializing in developing hospital software to manage patients’ health records and data. It helps hospitals digitize medical records, manage operations, and apply for financing; while providing a telemedicine solution to doctors. Using tech to builda modern and affordable healthcare system, Helium aims to be the largest healthcare data exchange in Africa.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
• Revital Healthcare — Revital revolutionizes healthcare by bringing advancedmedical devices, including WHO-Prequalified syringes, meeting the healthcare needs of Africa and beyond.

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• Daylight — Banking for you and your chosen family.
• Frank Innovations — A simpler and cheaper way to get a car. Order your car subscription online in minutes from GO. Save ...
• HealthAtom — HealthAtom is a healthcare software platform that design innovative healthcare solutions that allow the clinical industry to advance in the use of administrative technologies. They dentalink and medilink software for better healthcare services for patients.

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• Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
• Cache Energy — Cache Energy is developing energy storage technology that is non-toxic, non-flammable, and a fire retardant for easy transportation.
• Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.

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• ZELF — Zelf is a neobank targeting Gen Z to bring financial services to where they live – in messengers. This is the lightest bank with the easiest onboarding process taking up to 60 sec to issue a card, receive and send money without leaving the messenger. We are uniquely offering AI-powered voice control over the most of financial operations, whichmakes us first voice-enabled banking for Gen Z who prefers voice interactions with their devices.
• Healthlane — Understand, Track and Improve Your Health Experience better health with interactive tools that help you manage your lifestyle, giving you personalised insights to achieve your health and fitness goals. Get started Move From Sick Care to Preventive Care Over 70 in depth tests designed to detect diseases before they strike. Results in 45 minutes! No

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• LifeBank — LifeBank App is an intuitive blood donor database that inspires committed Africans to give blood and save lives in their community. LifeBank Plus is an enterprise marketplace for hospitals and blood banks. The app helps their clients to source for the best blood and blood products that patients need. Their nimble logistics system helps to deliverthe products to patients on time and also provides a simple payment systems that works.

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• Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
• Snowstorm — Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor.
• Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

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• Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
• Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
• Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.

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• CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
• UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
• Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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• Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
• EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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• Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
• Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.
• Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.

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• Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
• PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
• Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.

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• Healthlane — Understand, Track and Improve Your Health Experience better health with interactive tools that help you manage your lifestyle, giving you personalised insights to achieve your health and fitness goals. Get started Move From Sick Care to Preventive Care Over 70 in depth tests designed to detect diseases before they strike. Results in 45 minutes! No

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• CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
• Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
• My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!

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• DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
• ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
• Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.

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• Angle Health — Digital-First Health Plans For The Modern Employee
• KURUKURU — Bring your comics and visual stories to life in clicks on KURUKURU.
• Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.

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• Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
• OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
• Revivo — Buy electronics spare parts and accessories easily online.

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• Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
• Grabango — As the leader in checkout-free technology for large-scale grocery and convenience stores, Grabango is working with billion-dollar global retailers to retrofit existing stores to make waiting in lines a thing of the past. We just raised $39M in Series B funding, and we are excited to accelerate the growth of our team and our store deployments todeliver on our mission to eliminate lines and save people time.With Grabango, shoppers choose their items as usual, and then skip the line by scanning a code in their Grabango app on the way out. Our solution uses computer vision technology to identify items as they are picked up. It counts those items and sends the receipt to the shopper’s phone after they leave the store. Grabango delivers a seamless shopping experience that is becoming the global standard.Driven by passion to improve peoples’ daily lives, our technology brings computer vision and machine learning to existing brick-and-mortar stores by processing the interactions between people and products. We are the first and only company to successfully retrofit checkout-free technology into an existing store and work with high accuracy in a dynamic, real world environment. No facial recognition technology is used and all data is anonymized to protect customer privacy.Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.
• Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.

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• Healthlane — Understand, Track and Improve Your Health Experience better health with interactive tools that help you manage your lifestyle, giving you personalised insights to achieve your health and fitness goals. Get started Move From Sick Care to Preventive Care Over 70 in depth tests designed to detect diseases before they strike. Results in 45 minutes! No

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• Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
• Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
• Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.