All Healthtech stories from Ghana Innovation Journal.
Ghanaian healthtech startup Medpharma has raised an undisclosed funding round from Sahara Impact Ventures. What problem is MedPharma solving? Founded by Stephen Yaw Asamoah and Richard Appiah Otoo in 2019, MedPharma is digitising healthcare delivery by aggregating providers, pharmacies, and medical facilities into a single connected platform. Its model tackles one of the continent’s most [...]
The Standard Chartered Futuremakers Women in Tech (FWIT) program, an initiative by Standard Chartered Bank, has invested $50,000 in five startups from its 2025 incubator program. These companies span sectors including healthcare and agriculture, and waste management. Implemented by the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre, the program provides business development and financial support to women-led or [...]
Ten women-led startups have been selected to join the fifth cohort of the Standard Chartered Futuremakers Women in Tech (WiT) Accelerator Program, an initiative by Standard Chartered Bank. Launched in 2020 and implemented in partnership with Village Capital and the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre, the incubator equips women-led or owned tech-enabled businesses with the essential [...]
Two Ghanaian startups, Freezelink and Revna Biosciences, have been listed on Bloomberg’s inaugural list of 25 innovative African startups to watch in 2025. Selected from a pool of over 2000 applicants, the top 25 companies consist of some of the continent's most innovative companies reinventing biotechnology, finance, e-commerce, and eclectic mobility, among other things. Founded [...]
Global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has partnered with Ghanaian precision medicine company Revna Biosciences to enhance access to advanced lung cancer testing and targeted therapies. The collaboration focuses on improving diagnosis and treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common form of lung cancer, through Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) biomarker testing. This cutting-edge [...]
mPharma and Sproxil have been selected to join the third cohort of Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative that supports healthtech startups improving access to medicines and pharmacy services across the continent. The two companies are among seven growth-stage innovators chosen this year for their impact in transforming pharmaceutical access and healthcare delivery. [...]
Aide Chemists, a tech-enabled pharmacy chain, has been selected for the 2025 HealthTech Hub Africa Accelerator Program. This initiative, led by the Novartis Foundation and implemented by Villgro Africa and Jhpiego, supports startups integrating digital health solutions into African public health systems. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Accra, Aide Chemists operates over 20 pharmacy [...]
Five homegrown startups have earned coveted spots on the 2025 Yale Africa Startup Review (YASR30), an annual list celebrating Africa’s most innovative and high-potential ventures. The annual YASR30 list spotlights startups with the potential to reshape entire industries. A distinguished panel of venture capital judges evaluates submissions based on innovation, scalability, and societal impact. This [...]
Yemaachi Biotech, a leading genomics research company based in Ghana, has partnered with Roche to launch The African Cancer Atlas (TACA), an initiative to address the significant underrepresentation of African genomic data in global cancer research. This collaboration seeks to establish the world’s most comprehensive cancer genomic database focused on African populations, providing critical insights [...]
Medtrack Technologies has been selected among the 15 finalists advancing to the Acceleration Phase of the timbuktoo Healthtech Accelerator Programme. The finalists were chosen from the inaugural cohort of 40 innovators who participated in the boot camp to shortlist the startups with the most potential. The Acceleration phase begins in January and will provide comprehensive [...]
Bio Usawa, Inc., a leading biotechnology company committed to delivering affordable and accessible monoclonal antibody-based therapies for cancer, ophthalmic, autoimmune, and infectious diseases in Africa, has tapped the former Head of Laboratory Service at the Ghana’ Food and Drugs Authority, Eric Karikari-Boateng as its Head of Global Regulatory Strategy. As Head of Global Regulatory Strategy, [...]
MedTrack has been selected as part of the first cohort of the Timbuktoo HealthTech Accelerator. Selected from over 957 applicants, the cohort features 40 young innovators from 21 African countries. MedTrack is transforming Africa’s healthcare landscape with its decentralized health information system, linking patient data to national biometric IDs. Its patient-focused platform enables seamless collaboration [...]
Revna Biosciences, the Accra-based biotechnology startup, has announced that it has secured dual International Organization for Standardization accreditations (ISO 15189:2022 for clinical diagnostics and ISO 20387:2018 for biobanking) for its facility. This makes it the first facility in Ghana and West Africa to secure the dual certification. Why are the ISOs important to the company’s [...]
The Ghana-based health-tech company, MedPharama, has been selected as a beneficiary of the pan-African business support initiative Investing in Innovation (i3). Founded by Stephen Yaw Asamoah in 2016, MedPharma is a tech-health social impact enterprise seeking to improve the health status of patients across Africa. Medpharma provides e-consultation, e-prescription, delivery of medicines and medical equipment, [...]
Glory Health Care (GHC), a healthcare-fintech company, has announced the launch of its office in Ghana. This move marks a crucial step towards making a positive impact in the African market as the company's entry point. The female-led startup transforms remittances into healthcare for families. The startup is solving the issue of medical care for [...]
Health Direct Global, the digital healthcare infrastructure platform that connects patients to healthcare providers, pharmacies, and insurance companies, has been selected as one of eight global ventures to participate in the Halcyon Incubator in Washington, DC. The program is designed to accelerate the impact-driven future of businesses that aim to drive equity and inclusivity in [...]
Following its inability to secure venture capital, the healthtech startup Redbird has closed down. “We needed to raise a new round of funding by the end of 2022, and our growth and the state of the investment market didn’t match up, according to the statement released by the CEO, Patrick Beattie. In 2021, they raised [...]