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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+
Seed funding
$19M+
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funding
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.

bena care

Dawa pay

lishe living

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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
Wilfred Njagi
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Rob Beyer
Co-founder & Executive Chairman
Robert Karanja
Robert Karanja
Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Franciscah Nzanga
Franciscah Nzanga
Chief Operations Officer
Wambui Nyabero
Wambui Nyabero
Chief Technology Officer
Senior Program Manager
Moses Waweru
Senior Program Manager
Snider Mugese
Snider Mugese
Finance Lead
Immanuel Momanyi
Immanuel Momanyi
Advisory Lead
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Our Partners

We co-create and collaborate with partners who share our vision for building innovative businesses within the African health landscape.
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NEWS - INSIGHTS - EVENTS

Medical Hardware Development
Developing hardware is hard! Hear from our CTO on the 5 things needed to create an enabling environment for the local invention, manufacturing and distribution of medical hardware.
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Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI4H) Call
A funding call focused on artificial intelligence innovations that improve equitable pandemic resilience and/or sexual and reproductive health. 
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: The Next Frontier of Innovation
The potential of artificial intelligence in healthcare is vast. Learn more from our AI Sector Lead about the opportunities and risks represented in AI in health.
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