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6 Steps to move a medical device innovation from prototype to market

AI Policy and Data Governance in Africa

Artificial Intelligence for Health

Before Villgro Africa

Decoding AI: Risks, Opportunities, and Myths

Female Founders: What It's Like to Lead a Startup as a Woman

Fundraising: Demystifying the Local vs Expat Funding Gap (Part I)

How to Make a Medical Device

Increasing the Pipeline of Female Innovators

Investing in Women-Led Businesses: The Investor Perspective

Market Access for MedTech in Africa

Market Shaping Efforts in African MedTech

MedTech Challenges in Healthcare Service Delivery

Mentoring Medical Device Innovations

Navigating Regulatory Processes for Medical Device Innovations

Navigating The FDA/CE Mark Process

Revolutionising Healthcare in Africa

Stages of Fundraising: Angel Investing

Stages of Fundraising: Family and Friends

Stages of Fundraising: Grant Funding

Stages of Fundraising: Venture Capital

Supporting Female Founders

The Beginnings of Villgro Africa

The middle Road chats with Dr Robert Karanja

The Next Investment Frontier: An Overview of Africa's Fundraising Landscape

The Story of an AI Healthcare Startup Founder

Transforming African MedTech

USAID's Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Program

Villgro Africa’s Journey Toward Gender Balance

What Are Investors Looking For?

Funding Calls

African healthcare entrepreneur

Call for African AI-Enabled Healthcare Solutions

Call for Applications: Bioscience Innovation Bootcamp

CALL FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY HARDWARE INNOVATIONS IN KENYA

Call For Healthcare Innovations In Kenya

Call for Innovations for Frontline Healthcare Workers

Call for Innovative Medtech Device Startups

Call for Medical Device Hardware Technology in East Africa

Call for mentors to support healthcare innovators in Africa

Disruptive Homegrown Healthcare Solutions

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

Female-Led Health Tech Startups in Ghana

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

Gender Lens & Climate Change Healthcare Focused Innovations Call

HARNESSING THE POWER OF AI FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT

Home Grown Solutions (HGS) Accelerator

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

IIDEA & IRTF Call for Idea Submission

Investing in Innovation (I3) Africa

Investing in Innovation (i3) Cohort 2

Making More Health

Million Lives Collective

Supporting African Women-Led Healthcare Startups

Tech Enabled Medical Services

The East Africa Biosciences Studio Call for Innovators

Portfolio

Afya Poa

Clinic PESA

Enzi Health

HEALTH-E-NET

Ilara Health

KIJENZI

Mama Ope

MATIBABU

Medixus

NEOPENDA

Simbona Africa

TURACO

Posts

3 Medical Hardware Innovations win $60,000 from Villgro Kenya

4 Simple Communications Strategies for Startups

5 Steps to Becoming Investment Ready

5th Sankalp africa summit

A-Lite Featured on CNN's "African Voices: Changemakers" Program

About Advisory Services

African health tech start-ups in supply chain show promise, prompting launch of $7 million innovator support program

AI for Health: Up & Coming African AI Innovations

AI Innovator Spotlight: Diagnosoft Healthcare

AI Innovator Spotlight: Intixel

AI Innovator Spotlight: Neural Labs

AI Innovator Spotlight: Palindrome Data

AI Innovator Spotlight: Rology

AI Innovator Spotlight: Saratani AI

AI Innovator Spotlight: Sophie Bot

AI Innovator Spotlight: The Pathology Network

AI Innovator Spotlight: Vectorgram

AI Innovator Spotlight: Wekebere

Applying for the Villgro Africa Incubation Program?

Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI4H) Awardees Announced by Villgro Africa and Partners

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: The Next Frontier of Innovation

ASME Ishow 2018 names Kenyan winners

Bridging the Digital Divide: Streamline Case Study

Bringing Medtech devices to scale in Uganda

Building Operational Efficiency for your Organisation

Building Villgro Kenya: From Academia To Business Incubator And Impact Investor In 5 Years (With Learnings To Dial Up For The Post Covid-19 World)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ASME ISHOW

Call for Applications: Bioscience Innovation Bootcamp

Capsule Ltd. (FLARE) recieves $1,500 from African Development Bank

Catalyzing an Ecosystem of AI Innovators in Africa

Chronic Kidney Disease: A Hidden Epidemic in Africa

Clinic pesa & Mama Ope join Villgro Kenya's portfolio

Clinicpesa selected for MIT D-lab's 2019-2020 cohort

Connect Med Bags $10,000 Prize for best healthcare innovation

Connecting Research and the Private Sector

Connectmed offering free screening for diabetes & hypertension

Convening & Supporting African Women in AI

Cost Analysis of Distributing Liquid Oxygen to Facilities in Western Kenya Using Portable Cryogenic Tanks

Disrupt Africa Report

Dr. June Madete: Encouraging the next generation of Women in Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Robert Karanja hands over CEO 'baton' to Mr. Wilfred Njagi

Dr. Watu Wamae: Fostering Scientific Innovation

East African Innovations Aid the Fight Against COVID-19

Embracing micro health insurance and savings solutions to achieve UHC

Emergency Dispatch Saving Pregnant Women in Nairobi During Curfew

Ethiopia Trip 2024: Exploring Innovation in Healthcare, Agriculture, and Sustainability

Ethiopian Startup Prepares to Scale UVC Room Sterilizer Regionally

Filling the Gap: The Conveyor Belt of Innovation in African Healthcare

Financial Modelling for Emerging Businesses

Flare provides emergency response to taxify boda riders

Flare seals emergency response deal with Uber

Fostering Growth and Inclusion in the African Healthtech Sectors of the Future

From Obstacles to Opportunities: How Health Startups are Redefining Healthcare in Africa

FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKER INNOVATION CHALLENGE INVESTS $150,000 IN THREE COMPANIES

Health Fintech Solution wins USD 250,000 from the Swiss-Re Foundation

Here is why startups should rethink their strategy on grants

HomeGrown Solutions Winner: Catching Up With Care360

How an Ethiopian med-tech Startup is fighting COVID-19

How Impact Investors Can Support Portfolio Companies During COVID-19

How to Accelerate East Africa's Innovation Ecosystem

I-Talks social entrepreneurship as the driver of universal health coverage

IBE Innovator Spotlight: Aurora Health Systems

IBE Innovator Spotlight: MariTest

IBE Innovator Spotlight: NeoNest

IBE Innovator Spotlight: StainSmart

IBE Innovator Spotlight: Talking Hands, Listening Eyes

Ilara Health Awarded $1.1M Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Ilara Health Joins Villgro Kenya's Porfolio

Ilara Health using AI for Affordable Diagnostics

Ilara Health Wins Sankalp Africa Award 2020

Impact Report: Villgro Africa Celebrates 7 Years

Improving enabling environment and finance options for women

India's Villgro launches healthcare incubator in Kenya

Innovating for the maternal and neonatal health services

Innovator Spotlight: A-Lite

Innovator Spotlight: Afia Pharma

Innovator Spotlight: BenaCare

Innovator Spotlight: clinicPesa

Innovator Spotlight: Damu Sasa

Innovator Spotlight: Dawa Health

Innovator Spotlight: DawaPay

Innovator Spotlight: Doktorconnect

Innovator Spotlight: Drop Access

Innovator Spotlight: Enzi Health

Innovator Spotlight: ilara Health

Innovator Spotlight: Kenusa Medical

Innovator Spotlight: Lishe Living Nutritionists

Innovator Spotlight: Lucy Enset

Innovator Spotlight: Mama Ope

Innovator Spotlight: MobiKlinic

Innovator Spotlight: NegusMed

Innovator Spotlight: Parkers Mobile Clinic

Innovator Spotlight: Photo Kabada

Innovator Spotlight: Ren Healthcare

Innovator Spotlight: SilverCross Healthcare

Innovator Spotlight: Simbona

Innovator Spotlight: Stre@mline

Innovator Spotlight: Swift Lab

Innovator Spotlight: Zuri Health

Innovators Forum

Innovators Forum - Harnessing the 4th Industrial Revolution(Hardware Innovations) to drive UHC in Africa

Innovators Forum: Building Resilience Through Investment in Biomedical and Diagnostics Innovation and Manufacturing in Kenya

Investor Deal Book

Job Opening : Senior Investment Analyst (Full Time)

Kampala innovation week: Enterprise acceleration

Kijenzi Supplies Prosthetics to Sudan

Launch of the East Africa Biosciences Studio Initiative

Launch of the Innovators Forum at 7th Sankalp Africa Summit

Leadership Review: Reflections on 2022

Lessons from 5 Years With Villgro Kenya

Leveraging Homegrown Angel Investors to Spur Growth of Innovations

Lishe Living Scales Nutrition Therapy Across Kenya

Lishe Living’s Impact on Patients Living with NCDs during the Pandemic

Maisha meds & Turaco secure funding from Villgro Kenya to advance primary care

Mama ope founder recognized as a world pneumonia fighter

MamaOpe Recognised as one of the 100 Meaningful Businesses in 2020

Market Research & Commercialisation Strategy for a Smart Infant Incubator in Kenya

Market Research & Commercialisation Strategy for Medical Devices

Market Research on the Viability of 3D Printing Prosthetics in Kenya and Uganda

Maternal Mortality in Uganda: The Need for Wekebere’s Innovative Solution

Matibabu : The journey towards a malaria free world through early diagnosis

Matibabu Graduates from Incubation Program

Matibabu Wins award at Pitch@Palace africa 2.0

Matibabu wins top prize at the Asme Ishow

Medical Hardware Development

Medixus Secures Key Partnerships for Scale

Mentors Needed for Health Innovators and Social Entrepreneurs

Moving Forward as Villgro Africa

Need for health innovations in east africa

Neopenda Graduates from Villgro Africa's Portfolio

Open Source Startups: Empowering Communities with Innovation

Partner Profile: Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA)

Practical solutions for startups during the COVID-9 Pandemic

Pregmum to provide solution to fetal and maternal mortality

PRESS RELEASE - VILLGRO AFRICA LAUNCH

Q&A WITH WILFRED - FIRST YEAR AT THE HELM

QMS ISO 13485 Medical Diagnostics Masterclass

Quality Management Systems (QMS) Documentation Workshop Report in Uganda

Reflections on the Prix Galien Best Incubator/Accelerator Award

Remote Monitor to Lower the Risk of COVID-19 Infections for Frontline Workers

Rethinking global digital health and AI-for-health innovation challenges

Scouted, Screened, Selected & Provided Acceleration Support to African Healthcare Startups

Scouted, Screened, Selected & Provided Acceleration Support to East African Healthcare Startups

Seasons Greetings and Christmas Wishes

Sharon Anyango: Providing Financial Access to the Uninsured in Uganda

Support at the MIT D-Lab Co-Design Summit

Supporting the Development of the African Medtech Sector

Supporting Women-Led Healthcare Startups in Africa

Supporting Women-Led Healthcare Startups in Africa Report

The Bioscience Innovation Bootcamp

The health innovation Learning lab 2019

The Importance of Data for Startups

The Medical Device Entrepreneurship Journey

The Pathology Network Provides Access to Diagnostics to Over 9000 Patients Across Kenya

The Pathology Network: Improving Access to Healthcare Through Digital Pathology

The Power of Mentorship: A Conversation with Ankit Jhanwar

The role of private equity & why bank financing isn't ideal for startups

The Transforming African MedTech Conference (TAMC) 2024 Report

Transformative Healthcare Business Models for Sustainable Impact in Africa

Upcoming Webinar ; Open Innovation for Global Health

USAID & Partners: Building an ecosystem for incubation

UVC Apparatus Gaining Traction in Ethiopian Hospitals

Villgro Africa & Bobab Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement

VILLGRO AFRICA AND GHANA TECH LAB LAUNCH CALL FOR FEMALE-LED HEALTH TECH STARTUPS IN GHANA

Villgro Africa and ICChange Partner to Scale African Social Enterprises

Villgro Africa Announces the “Harnessing the Power of AI for Africa’s Development” Top 11 Innovations

Villgro Africa awards $20,000 to Damu Sasa for their COVID-19 Measures

Villgro Africa awards $20,000 to Damu Sasa to Enhance their COVID-19 Capabilities

Villgro Africa Collaborates with Disrupt Africa for an Open Source Funding Report

Villgro Africa Disburses $170K to Innovators

Villgro Africa Expansion : Progress and Opportunities

Villgro Africa featured in StartupScene Nairobi

Villgro Africa HR Masterclass

Villgro Africa Incubatees Selected for AVPA Deal Share Room

Villgro Africa Joins the Afrilabs Community

Villgro Africa Mid-Year Review

Villgro Africa Newsletter 001

Villgro Africa Portfolio companies win TechEmerge Health East Africa Challenge

Villgro Africa Support for Innovations Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic

Villgro Africa welcomes four new members

Villgro Africa’s Expansion Strategy: Co-Incubation with Ghana Tech Lab

Villgro Kenya @ 5 Impact Report

Villgro Kenya @5 Impact Report

Villgro Kenya Awards $150K to 12 Startups Fighting COVID-19 in Africa

Villgro Kenya Expansion throughout the African Continent

Villgro Kenya hosts Prof. Muhamad Yunus

Villgro Kenya in the face of COVID-19

Villgro Kenya Innovators to Benefit from new Pool of Mentors

Villgro Kenya Invests $50,000 in The Pathology Network

Villgro Kenya January Newsletter

Villgro Kenya Team Selected for NextGen Ecosystem Builders Program

Virtual health team wins grand prize of 3.5 million UGX during 6th annual camtech Uganda Medtech hack-a-thon

WEBINAR - Innovation in Healthcare Financing in Kenya

Wekebere Selected for the First African Artificial Intelligence Accelerator in Ghana

What COVID-19 tells us about the current biomedical innovation and manufacturing capacity in Kenya

Why open-source AI is good for business: Two examples from Kenya and Uganda

Wound Closure Technology: Negus Med Case Study