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“Low-Cost Automated Slide Stainer (LASS) is a health technology innovation designed to automate the laboratory slide staining process, making diagnostic services more efficient, accurate, and accessible in resource-limited healthcare settings. By reducing manual intervention, LASS improves the consistency and quality of slide preparation while helping laboratories save time and increase throughput. The system supports multiple staining protocols, including Malaria, Gram stain, Ziehl–Neelsen, and Pap smear, making it suitable for a wide range of diagnostic applications. LASS also integrates digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence capabilities, to enhance laboratory workflows and support better clinical decision-making. Our mission is to strengthen diagnostic…”
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Digital Health/Software
“I am Alex Langat a Diploma in Public Health student iin Kenya Medical Training College,Kenya with a strong interest in digital health and community health innovation. I am developing LMICIS (Last Mile Immunization Coverage Information System), a digital platform designed to strengthen routine immunization services by helping health workers register children, track immunization records and vaccination schedules, identify children who miss scheduled vaccine appointments, send caregivers reminders before upcoming vaccination appointments, monitor vaccine stock levels, and support accurate immunization reporting. My goal is to apply public health knowledge and technology to develop practical solutions that improve access to quality healthcare,…”
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Product Development
“Kakia Oils is a sustainable Kenyan cosmetics startup developing nature-based beauty and wellness solutions that empower urban African families to address everyday skin, hair and lifestyle challenges, while restoring their freedom to show up boldly and unlock their fullest potential. Our Vision Plant Oils for A Perfectly Healthful World! Our Mission To promote, manufacture and distribute natural, safe, functional and high-performance natural cosmetics from Africa’s best produce for the health, wealth and wellness of Africa, and beyond. Core Purpose We exist to create lasting impact through: • providing a prolific arena of natural, safe, functional and high-performance natural cosmetics, •…”
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Product Development
“HerRise is a women-focused wellness venture dedicated to empowering women to live healthier, more balanced, and purpose-driven lives through natural wellness solutions, education, and community. Our mission is to make holistic wellness accessible by offering natural products, practical wellness education, and resources that support women's physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Beyond wellness, HerRise inspires women to invest in themselves, embrace personal growth, and build fulfilling lives and businesses. We believe that when women rise, families, communities, and future generations rise with them. Through authentic storytelling, entrepreneurship, and wellness advocacy, HerRise is building a movement where women are encouraged to grow…”
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Product Development
“Natural By Design is a skincare formulation and product development startup dedicated to creating natural products that enhance beauty while supporting skin health. The brand places particular focus on developing solutions for conditions such as skin sensitivity, atopic dermatitis, and post‑traumatic hyperpigmentation.
Based in Cape Town, our mission is to blend Africa's botanicals with science to deliver sustainable effective solutions.”
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“The Solar-Powered Mobile Eye Health & Cataract Surgical Unit is a tech-enabled healthcare venture eliminating avoidable blindness in rural Kenya. Over 87% of visually impaired rural residents remain untreated due to prohibitive transport costs and long distances to urban facilities. Our solution deploys an off-grid mobile surgical vehicle equipped with medical-grade solar power, AI-driven fundus cameras for early glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy screening, and a sterile surgical suite for high-volume cataract procedures. Integrated into county Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and a vision of being powered by Kenya’s Social Health Authority (SHA) reimbursement model, the venture shall generates an operational surplus…”
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Product Development
“Neema medical Centre is a healthcare facility offering healthcare services to the community and was founded in June 2023. we offer a range of services such as general outpatient services, laboratory services, dental services, and a pharmacy. we are registered by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC), our pharmacy is registered by the pharmacy and poisons board (PPB), and our laboratory is registered by the Kenya medical laboratory technicians and technologists board (KMLTTB). we have partnered with the Social Health Authority (SHA) to enable strengthening universal health coverage. we have also partnered with the Respiratory Society of Kenya…”
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Product Development
“Goldtrix Group is an early-stage African bio-innovation venture developing premium functional beverages, healthy snacks, and natural wellness products inspired by Indigenous Knowledge Systems. The company combines traditional African botanical ingredients with modern product development to create healthier alternatives to sugary drinks and highly processed snacks.
Our mission is to transform Africa's natural resources into high-value consumer products while supporting local farmers, promoting sustainable sourcing, and creating jobs. Goldtrix Group aims to become a trusted African wellness brand that delivers innovative, science-informed products for local and global markets under the slogan:
"Standardizing Nature. Restoring Vitality."”
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“Tahsma Healthcare is a mission-driven healthtech venture that gives Kenyans access to medicine and healthcare services through a SHA-aligned Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) credit model. We complement the government's efforts by filling the critical gaps in the current health system, ensuring that no one has to choose between food and medicine. Kenya faces a healthcare affordability crisis. Fewer than one in five Kenyans have any form of health insurance. Even for those who are covered, many remain underinsured, still paying out-of-pocket for medicines and services they thought were covered. Out-of-pocket expenses now account for 26% of total health expenditure,…”
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Individual Mentorship
“A Global Health Specialist from Nairobi, Kenya. I double as a Graphic, Motion and 3D Designer. I use my health academic background and design for health marketing through; concept development, prototyping, visual story telling and ad campaign development.”
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Product Development
“Hello, my name is Lillian Mwinja. I am currently a Master's student enrolled at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. I am pursuing a MSc in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics. My project for the HIP challenge involves using medicinal plants, specifically oil extracts to asses their synergistic effect on tinea versicolor.”
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Product Development
“Cow dung soap is an organic, handmade, eco-friendly skincare product. The soap contains natural antiseptic and antifungal properties which helps with reducing the appearance of dark spots, acne, eczema & psoriasis flare-ups, heat rash and boils. It also promotes sustainability, boosts self-confidence and self-eczema”
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“DxAMR is a clinical decision-support tool that converts antibiotic susceptibility test results into guideline-aligned prescribing recommendations for hospital clinicians, cutting a 72-hour decision cycle down to under two hours.”
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“CogniHub is a health technology and wellness venture that empowers young adults to improve their cognitive performance, mental wellbeing, and long-term health through personalised nutrition, digital health tools, and evidence-based education. By combining functional food products with an AI-powered wellness platform, CogniHub helps users make informed lifestyle choices that enhance focus, productivity, mood, and overall wellbeing while promoting preventive healthcare.”
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Individual Mentorship
“Venture Description My venture is focused on creating more inclusive learning and development environments for children through sport, movement, play and belonging. It is based on the belief that children should not have to fit into a rigid system in order to succeed. Instead, we should create environments that recognise individual differences and give children different pathways to learn, participate and discover their potential. Through my experience in swimming, sport, childhood development and working with children with different abilities, I want to explore how sport and movement can be used not simply for physical development, but as a pathway to…”
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Product Development
“Natural Haircare Vendor Profile
We specialize in organic haircare products designed to nourish, strengthen, and protect all hair types. Our mission is to promote healthy hair growth through safe, high-quality ingredients while empowering individuals to embrace their natural beauty with confidence.
I want to develop an organic, lab-formulated hair restoration treatment using indigenous EC botanical extracts specifically formulated to treat traction alopecia in African women, with clinical tracking of results.”
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Product Development
“Creation of healing products using natural herbs.”
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Product Development
“Established in 2022, I PLUS ZG is a South African natural cosmetics brand based in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, born directly from my personal struggle as a founder with highly sensitive skin and low-density hair. Unable to find products that met my expectations without being prohibitively expensive, I created the brand to bridge this gap by offering high-quality, accessible solutions. While some of our core products are already SABS-certified and validated by the University of Limpopo, the business is still actively scaling up and finding its feet in the market, utilizing local reseller networks and emerging global e-commerce platforms to grow.”
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Individual Mentorship
“Ubuhle connects is a distribution business for reusable pads by Ubuhle pads ,so we serve as a bridge between girls and women in Samora Machel and other underserved ,and Ubuhle pads in Cape Town CBD”
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Individual Mentorship
“As a gardener doing vertical farming in a 200 square metres, an agro processor, a seed distributer, and a Bee keeper I believe that agriculture is more than just growing food- it is about creating opportunities, strengthening communities and promoting self reliance.
Currently I am building a nursery for growing indigenous plants, Herbs and medicinal plant s for my new found venture of creating my very own products ie herbal teas and essential oils.”
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Product Development
“N'Lishe is a Kenyan social enterprise improving maternal and child nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life. We develop culturally appropriate, food-based nutritional solutions while strengthening the systems that enable mothers to access, understand, and sustain good nutrition. Rather than viewing malnutrition as simply a product gap, N'Lishe addresses the biological, behavioural, economic, and health system constraints that interrupt maternal nourishment. Our approach combines locally produced nutrition products, community engagement, evidence generation, and strategic partnerships with health providers to improve nutrition continuity and long-term health outcomes. By integrating public health, systems thinking, and sustainable business, N'Lishe is building a…”
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Product Development
“Nature Roots is a natural hair-care brand that will be dedicated to nourishing, moisturizing, and supporting healthier-looking hair. We will be creating affordable, quality hair oils made with carefully selected ingredients to help customers care for their hair and scalp naturally.
Nourish • Grow • Glow”
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Product Development
“My venture aims to make natural herbal remedies more accessible by transforming traditional medicinal plants into convenient, ready to use products for modern consumers. By combining indigenous knowledge with innovative product development, I seek to provide safe, high quality herbal solutions that support everyday health and wellness. My first product focuses on a traditional South African herbal infusion made from plants such as Monsonia angustifolia or Monsonia. Renowned for its natural healing properties, it has long been used to relieve muscular pain, support blood cleansing, and enhance vitality and libido.”
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Individual Mentorship
“DigestAid is an innovative, natural animal digestive supplement developed from indigenous medicinal plants. It is designed to improve livestock digestive health, enhance nutrient absorption, strengthen immunity, increase productivity, support reproductive health, and assist animals in excreting foreign materials that may have been ingested, helping to reduce digestive complications. The venture aims to provide livestock farmers with an affordable, sustainable, and science-informed solution while promoting the commercialisation of Indigenous Knowledge.”
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Individual Mentorship
“Bhukula Farming Co-op is a Co-op that specializes in mixed farming. With livestock such as goats,sheep and chicken as well as a variety of organic herbs and vegetables”
