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Innovations In Healthcare In Africa

Villgro Africa is an incubator and impact investor supporting emerging healthcare businesses in Africa.

We offer emerging companies a personalised incubation experience to help effectively scale ideas and navigate the African startup ecosystem.

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Impact Delivered

Our goal is to help innovators build viable and scalable health and life science solutions that improve quality of life for people across Africa.

$1.8M+

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$19M+

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10M+

Lives Impacted

How We Deliver Impact

Our Services

Villgro Africa acts as a growth guide. We rely on our deep sector knowledge and vast partner network to help innovators realise their full business potential while providing needed healthcare innovations that benefit society as a whole.

Funding

Seed funding and access to impact investors.

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Incubation

Customised support for emerging health businesses.

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Advisory

Industry expertise in the African innovation space.

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Innovators We Support

We work with emerging companies focused on innovations in healthcare in Africa.

Our Team

We bring together a multi-disciplinary team with deep sector expertise in health and life sciences that spans the startup spectrum, from business and product development to manufacturing and financial modelling.

Wilfred Njagi

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Rob Beyer

Co-founder & Executive Chairman

Robert Karanja

Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer

Wambui Nyabero

Chief Technology Officer

Moses Waweru

Senior Program Manager

Snider Mugese

Finance Lead

Immanuel Momanyi

Advisory Lead

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NEWS - INSIGHTS - EVENTS

Communications Strategies for Startups

Interested in improving your business communications, but feel that you don't have the capacity or bandwidth? Learn a few simple strategies for how to build a comms foundation for your startup.

Transformative Healthcare Business Models for Sustainable Impact in Africa

As a part of the launch of our 7 Year Impact Report, we hosted a panel session at the Sankalp Forum.

Impact Report: Celebrating 7 Years

As we celebrate 7 years of impact, Villgro Africa has released an impact report, highlighting the companies we've supported and the partners who have walked alongside us to make our work possible.