Kenyan e-overall health startup Zuri Well being has raised a US$1.3 million pre-seed spherical of funding to improve its products choices and expand into new marketplaces.
Disrupt Africa noted in January 2021 on the launch of Zuri Health and fitness, a digital, mobile-first, on-demand from customers healthcare platform that can help people swiftly and conveniently entry healthcare from licensed health care suppliers, based on availability, site, and specialisation.
The startup in the beginning launched in Kenya but is now also present in Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia. It has partnered with 16 major cell community operators with above 400,000 SMS subscribers, and has about 300 medical professionals, 27 lab and diagnostic centres and 15 pharmacies on its platform.
Zuri has now attracted US$1.3 million in pre-seed financial investment from DOB Equity, Start Africa Ventures, Founders Factory Africa, V8 Capital, System Money, Villgro Africa, Asime Ventures, and the Salik Household Trust as it ideas enlargement throughout Africa. The funding will be applied to even more establish out its electronic system, improve its merchandise choices, and start functions in new marketplaces.
“We are driven by the impression our provider could have – to be a answer to Africa’s absence of sufficient health care. Healthcare infrastructure in most pieces of Africa is grossly inadequate, with painfully significant medical doctor-patient ratios. There are many Africans who can’t find the money for healthcare products and services or who are living too considerably away from healthcare facilities. And with skilled healthcare staff significantly leaving Africa for greener pastures, the predicament is worsening,” explained Ikechukwu Anoke, CEO and founder of Zuri Overall health.
“We have a burning drive to democratise health care entry and harness the power of engineering to give top quality, 1st-tier healthcare providers.”
Zachariah George, taking care of lover at Start Africa Ventures, claimed his enterprise thought in the Zuri team’s ability to blaze a trail in African e-health and fitness.
“Zuri Well being displays remarkable probable to scale across the continent and democratise entry to healthcare,” he said.
Dr Akintoye Akindele, chairman of Platform Money, will be a part of the Zuri board, and mentioned he seemed ahead to doing work carefully with the group to renovate obtain to health care.
“We consider that Anoke, Isiaho and the Zuri Wellbeing crew have developed a platform that addresses the big healthcare infrastructure gap that exists on the continent and has the potential to assure accessibility to reasonably priced professional medical care for each African,” he stated.
