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2024 HealthTech Hub Africa Accelerator Program

2024 HealthTech Hub Africa Accelerator Program

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2024 HealthTech Hub Africa Accelerator Program

Applications are currently being accepted for the 2024 HealthTech Hub Africa (HTHA) Accelerator Program.

Africa faces a significant burden of global health challenges, hindered by limited funding and resources that hinder the provision of top-notch medical services to its inhabitants. However, the region is witnessing a surge in entrepreneurial innovation, offering promising avenues to address these issues. Notable examples include the use of drones for delivering medical supplies and the emergence of virtual health assistants, showcasing the potential of innovative technological solutions in tackling healthcare challenges.

With a physical co-working location in Kigali, Rwanda, HealthTech Hub Africa (HTHA) is a hybrid pan-African health tech accelerator. HTHA was established by the Novartis Foundation and is funded by the Global Fund, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, and other important government players. Its mission is to aggressively integrate innovations into public health systems. The Accelerator Program  aims to offer entrepreneurs a powerful platform to create sustainable businesses and meaningful health impact.

Thematic Areas:

  • Cardiovascular Health: Reducing cardiovascular disease deaths on the population level through improved screening, referral, diagnosis, and management.
  • Breast Cancer:  Reducing breast cancer deaths on the population level through improved screening, referral, diagnosis, and management.
  • Virtual Health and Care:  Improving quality, access to equitable care, and digital literacy through remote delivery of preventative and curative health and care services.
  • Optimization of Data-driven Decision-making: Improving health system capabilities and epidemic preparedness through stronger integrated health information.

HTHA is searching for new business models that enable engagement with local and national governments, as well as startups and scale-ups from throughout the African continent, with the goal of supporting health systems in their digital transformation journeys, for the 2024 cohort.

The primary evaluation criteria for each of the two tracks centre on the applicants’ capacity to show how their innovations can successfully address problems in one or more of the hub’s four thematic areas of focus; other considerations include their product excellence, teamwork, fit-to-market, sustainability, and scalability model in relation to collaborating with the public system.

Location: African Countries

 Benefits of 2024 HealthTech Hub Africa Accelerator Program

Participation in  10-Month Accelerator Program, which includes:
For the Startups:
  • Expert masterclasses.

  • Pitch practice sessions.

  • Community support.

  • Mentorship with strong expertise in population health and technology.

  • Invitation to networking meet-ups and hybrid events across Africa and beyond.

  • Startup solution demos and opportunities to pitch during the annual HealthTech summits in Kigali, Rwanda.

  • Coaching and access to an interactive platform for growth level support allowing for structuring and refinement of existing and new business models and preparing executive summaries.

Participation in  10-Month Accelerator Program, which includes:
For the Startups:
  • Expert masterclasses.

  • Pitch practice sessions.

  • Community support.

  • Mentorship with strong expertise in population health and technology.

  • Invitation to networking meetups and hybrid events across Africa and beyond.

  • Startup solution demos and opportunities to pitch during the annual HealthTech summits in Kigali, Rwanda.

  • Coaching and access to an interactive platform for growth level support allowing for structuring and refinement of existing and new business models and preparing executive summaries.

For the Scaleups:
  • Access to all the above benefits offered to growth startups.
  • Media training and exposure.
  • Additional Investment Readiness Support.
  • Free access to world-class legal services, accounting, marketing, talent acquisition, and accelerated fundraising.
Membership In The HealthTech Public-Private Partners Network, Which Includes:
  • Free expert-level support from established local and global organizations in the form of advisory, facilitation, match-making with prospective partners, consulting, and more
  • Perks in the form of free and/or highly discounted infrastructure credits, software licenses and technical and design services
  • Access to the hub’s investor circle
  • Access to various opportunities shared by the network
Funding Opportunities For Innovation Acceleration In Public Health
  • Through the digital platform of the hub, all selected startups will be able to apply for grant funding and in-kind benefits exceeding USD 1M.
  • The funding will serve the startups to test, refine, validate, integrate and, accelerate and/or scale their solutions inside the public health systems to drive forward health equity in the continent.
  • Following the projects’ completion, the solutions successfully integrated into the respective national health systems will be spotlighted and will have the opportunity to seek further support in the future.
Full-Year Access To A State-Of-Art Co-Working Space
The membership comes with 12 months of serviced office space, meeting and conference spaces, and an invitation to startup community events hosted by the Norrsken East Africa House in Kigali.
Lifetime Access To The Hub’s Alumni Network And Open-Source Resources
All startups and scale-ups who have completed the program will receive a Participation Certificate and a lifetime Alumni membership to the HealthTech Hub Africa’s resources and future opportunities.

Eligibilities

The HTHA Challenge is open to all HealthTech startups with the following mandatory conditions:

For Startups:

  • African Registration: Startups must be registered in an African country.
  • Team Composition: A co-founding team with at least two members, including one African founder.
  • Thematic Alignment: The startup’s product or service should align with one or more of HealthTech Hub Africa’s four thematic areas: cardiovascular health, breast cancer, virtual health and care, and Optimisation of data-driven decision making.
  • Revenue Stage: Startups can be either pre-revenue or post-revenue.
  • Funding Stage: Pre-SEED to SEED stage startups are eligible.
  • Operational Duration: Startups should have been in operation for a minimum of one year.

For Scaleups:

  • African Registration: The startup must be registered in an African country.
  • Team Composition: A co-founding team with at least two members, including one African founder.
  • Thematic Alignment: The product or service should align with one or more of HealthTech Hub Africa’s four thematic areas, which include cardiovascular health, breast cancer, virtual health and care, and data for decision making.
  • Evidence-Based Solution: The startup’s product or service should be evidence-based and demonstrate positive health benefits.
  • Impact Monitoring: A rigorous approach to monitoring the solution’s impact on individuals is essential.
  • Revenue Stage: Startup’s must be post-revenue.
  • Funding Stage: Pre-Series A or Series A

Eligible Regions: African countries.

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Specifications

Type of Opportunity Exchange Programs
Deadline11 December,2023
CountryAfrican Countries
OrganizerHealthTech Hub

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