Human health activities

Startupbootcamp AfriTech is an accelerator for start-ups, supporting and scaling innovative and disruptive technology companies across the African continent. 

Its office is located in the old Foundry in Green Point, Cape Town, at Ideas Cartel, which operates under Inner City Ideas Cartel.

Startupbootcamp AfriTech is currently running the ASIP Accelerator Program, which is anchored by corporate sponsor Telecel Group.

Telecel aims to support the next generation of early-stage African tech start-ups disrupting key industry verticals, including FinTech, InsureTech, AgriTech, eCommerce, Digital

Alpha and Omega MedTech is South Africa's Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Holding company that focuses on acquiring manufacturing and distribution companies of medical devices, therapeutics and IVD diagnostics, recognised as the World’s First China-Africa Healthcare Innovation Platform, with a model for partnerships. The vision is to establish and develop an AOM Group as the hub of medical excellence in South Africa. A Center of Excellence where quality medical facilities are clustered. The hub is envisaged as a cluster of medical interrelated facilities and activities that operates at a high

Impact Tank is a registered non-profit and Namibia's first social impact venture builder. Impact Tank ideate and design interventions that seek to address systemically broken social issues. They validate these models, then build and grow profitable businesses that drive towards sustainable change. Activities are organised into three thematic areas ensuring focus for the team, clear alignment to our funding partners and improving the ability to stay abreast with the latest developments within those communities.

These thematic areas are:

1. The Green Economy,
2. Food Security; and
3. Human Capital

myScript is a web application that replaces paper-based prescriptions. Our mission is to empower patients by providing them with unrestricted and secure access to their medical data on demand.

We manufacture a breastfeeding tonic that enhances breastmilk production. Also provides lactation support and assist with the breastfeeding journey.  We are a 100% woman owned organisation and our product is manufactured in South Africa. 

Doctors E-Consult is an online platform that is bringing together doctors, patients and pharmacies from all over the country into one application. Having seen the devastating effects which resulted from the Coronavirus. We noticed that access to healthcare was very limited due to the restrictions and curfews that were put in place by the government as a way to help stop the spread of the deadly virus. But prior to the pandemic, our health facilities are usually very congested. Not only that specialist doctors are concentrated in the capital city making it financially burdensome on those people

Get2Natural Beauty, also known as G2N is a cosmetic company co-founded by Phumelele Khumalo and Nosihle Dlamini. It was catalysed by the frustration in products that did not fulfil or satisfy our personal needs and goals for our hair and skin. The company produces face products made from botanical extracts that work in unison with the skin’s naturally produced oils to help create fresh, soft skin and a healthier complexion. The hair products consist of special healthy ingredients, from natural extracts such as natural butters and unique aromatherapy oils to formulate innovative oils specific

AzarGen is a biotechnology company developing therapies for cancer and respiratory disease. The company has developed and use technologies for advanced genetic engineering and synthetic biology applications in plants. The company is positioned to facilitate further development and commercialization of IP, generated by academia and industry. AzarGen has developed proprietary synthetic DNA promoters for various expression platform applications in plant-made pharmaceuticals, synthetic biology and GM-crop improvement. The AzarGen management team is supported by an experienced advisory board for

Hospi-Furn’ is the largest hospital bed manufacturer in Sub-Saharan Africa and is the market-leading supplier of manual beds in South Africa. The company’s product portfolio consists of a full range of hospital beds and accessories and various items of hospital furniture including bedside lockers, overbed tables and mattresses. Hospi-Furn adheres to International design standards for medical beds but also ensures compliance with local specifications resulting in affordable products truly suitable for the African market.

The company operates from a large factory and office block located in the

Digital Square focuses on creating better alignment to accelerate health equity through the development, adoption, scale, and delivery of digital health innovations. Digital Square brings partners together to improve how the global community designs, uses and pays for digital health tools and approaches. By strengthening the coordination among these partners, Digital Square reorients the market to better match tools and approaches to the needs of countries and communities.

• Alignment and Co-Investment

Digital Square helps to identify promising investment opportunities and provides