HEALTHCARE INNOVATION FUNDING CALLS

FUNDING CALLS

Along with our partners, Villgro Africa periodically holds funding calls with varying focuses within the health innovation sector. Find more information on all current and past funding calls below.

Open Calls

African Women Innovating In Healthcare (AWIIH) - 2025 Cohort

Are you a woman entrepreneur transforming healthcare in East Africa? Do you lead a high-impact health innovation that’s improving lives in your community? Are you seeking a supportive environment to refine your solution, accelerate your organization’s impact, deepen your understanding of the startup ecosystem, and sharpen your entrepreneurial skills? Do you value access to networks that empower and inspire female founders to reach their full potential? If so, then this opportunity is for you! We invite you to submit your application here and join our virtual Application Q&A Session on 29th May 2025, from 3pm to 4pm EAT to learn more about this opportunity. Register here to secure your spot for the Q&A session!

Previous Calls

MORE HEALTH for Africa Program

Are you a high-impact startup or scale-up generating at least USD 250K in revenue and seeking to raise USD 1M+ to advance MORE HEALTH in Africa? We want to support your journey!

Call for mentors to support healthcare innovators in Africa

November 18, 2024

We are looking for new mentors to add to our pool of experts that support healthcare innovators across Africa.

The East Africa Biosciences Studio Call for Innovators

Africa Genomics-Driven Early Diagnosis Challenge for Breast and Prostate Cancer

Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator

An initiative that aims to accelerate the growth of African healthcare companies to strengthen the continent’s pandemic resilience.

Call for Medical Device Hardware Technology in East Africa

Are you are a MedTech innovator, entrepreneur, or organization making significant strides in medical device healthcare technology, apply for an opportunity to join the Villgro Africa cohort.

Supporting African Women-Led Healthcare Startups

February 8, 2024

Are you a female founder passionate about creating innovative solutions for health needs in Africa? This is the call for you!

Million Lives Collective

September 6, 2023

Are you an innovator interested in connecting with other organisations and social entrepreneurs that are making significant impact at scale?

Making More Health

Calling on all African businesses innovating on kidney failure solutions. We want to help you create a healthier world by giving you an opportunity to get grant support, technical expertise, knowledge access, strategic networks, and other future support.

Investing in Innovation (i3) Cohort 2

Investing in Innovation (i3) is a pan-African initiative to support the commercialisation and impact 60 promising early & growth-stage companies with grants & access to markets support.

Gender Lens & Climate Change Healthcare Focused Innovations Call

February 2, 2023

Looking for East African innovators who are solving problems related to climate change and health, targeting women or girls, and have female representation on their leadership team.

Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience in Africa

January 24, 2023

We're looking for companies that have a Home Grown Solution (HGS) that is strengthening Africa's health system so that we can support them to achieve further growth and impact across the continent.

Call for African AI-Enabled Healthcare Solutions

October 12, 2022

Are you an African AI health-tech innovator with an idea or solution to improve health outcomes? This is a call for health-focused, African-led AI innovations that will be instrumental in catalysing the emerging ecosystem towards responsible development of technology, while strengthening the capacity of African innovators with regards to scaling their impact and improving development outcomes.

Disruptive Homegrown Healthcare Solutions

August 23, 2022

This is a joint program between the Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) and Villgro Africa looking for Kenyan startups that are providing innovative solutions in the healthcare space. Awardees will have the chance to participate in a pitching contest at Kenya Innovation Week (KIW) in December.

Female-Led Health Tech Startups in Ghana

This program is looking for Ghanian startups that are making improvements in the health technology space and applicants are required to have at least one woman in their leadership team. Beneficiaries will receive a year of incubation provided by both Villgro Africa and Ghana Tech Labs.

Investing in Innovation (I3) Africa

The Investing in Innovation (I3) in Africa initiative is a Pan-African consortium of sponsors, implementers, and coordinators that are working together to provide support over a period of two years to 60 African healthtech companies working in a field related to supply chain.

CALL FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY HARDWARE INNOVATIONS IN KENYA

Search for entrepreneurs with Assistive Technology hardware innovations that assist individuals with disabilities to perform functions that might otherwise be difficult or impossible.

Call For Healthcare Innovations In Kenya

A search for healthcare entrepreneurs with ideas, devices, technologies or software that have the potential to ensure affordable healthcare to all Kenyans.

Call for Innovations for Frontline Healthcare Workers

December 28, 2021

Call for healthcare innovations/companies in East Africa that strengthen the capacity of frontline healthcare workers (FLHW) while improving access and quality of care.

African healthcare entrepreneur

December 22, 2021

A chance African healthcare entrepreneurs to participate in a Solutions Accelerator designed to support growth and mature-stage African healthcare companies.

Exploiter la puissance de l’IA pour le développement de l’Afrique

Des innovations d’IA dirigées par l’Afrique, qui contribueront à catalyser l’écosystème émergent vers un développement responsable de la technologie.

HARNESSING THE POWER OF AI FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT

Seeking African-led AI innovations instrumental in catalyzing the emerging ecosystem towards responsible development of the technology while strengthening the capacity of African innovators.

Call for Innovative Medtech Device Startups

February 16, 2021

Call for startups Innovative Medtech Device Startups based in Africa focussing on Low and Middle Income Communities to apply for funding of $20,000 and incubation.

IIDEA & IRTF Call for Idea Submission

January 7, 2021

Inviting private sector and civil society organizations in East African Community Partner States to submit their innovative ideas in the areas of digitalization/ICT, health and stakeholder’s engagement.

Call for Applications: Bioscience Innovation Bootcamp

September 9, 2020

Call for citizens and/or nationals of the seven (7) BioInnovate Africa participating countries attached to a university, research institution, private company, or other related organization.

Funding & Support for Local Health Innovations to Respond to the Coronavirus Outbreak

inviting potential partner organizations to an early-stage business incubator and impact investor that supports healthcare and life science startups in the East African region

Tech Enabled Medical Services

November 1, 2019

Looking for Innovative Medical Device solutions that address the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in low-income populations across East Africa.