Best HealthTech Companies in Johannesburg, South Africa
The 54 best HealthTech companies in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Healthforce.
Our analysis of 864 HealthTech companies
$73.2b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best HealthTech companies in Johannesburg
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Healthforce Software for practice management systems for nurses and clinics | $3M | 61 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | WebflowAmazon Web Servicescore-js+13 | — |
| 2 | Kena Health Online platform offering remote consultation services with doctors | $2M | 37 mo ago | Seed | Saul Kornik Founder & CEO | 2021 | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+15 | — |
| 3 | VitruvianMD AI-based solution for medical diagnostics | $659K | 58 mo ago | Seed | Ifthakaar Shaik Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | 1 launch |
| 4 | Athena Provider of medical payments management software for healthcare | $250K | 29 mo ago | Seed | Jabulani Nyembe Founder | 2022 | — | 3 partnerships |
| 5 | UDoTest Direct-to-consumer screening tests for sexually transmitted diseases and GI disorders | $75K | 78 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | Response24 App to book emergency response services | — | 34 mo ago | Seed | Marlize Holtzhausen Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 7 | HealthDart Mobile app for the users to order prescribed medicines and to consult doctors online | — | 36 mo ago | Funding Raised | Njabulo Skhosana Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 8 | Guidepost Care platform allows caregivers to work together with patients to manage their chronic condition | — | 71 mo ago | Series A | Graham Rowe Co-Founder & CEO | 2003 | — | — |
Top 9 HealthTech companies in Johannesburg
#1
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2022$250Kraised▾
Provider of medical payments management software for healthcare. It offers a platform for medical bill management that enables patients to pay for healthcare in monthly instalments for healthcare surgeries and procedures.
- Jan 2024Seed$150K
#2
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2021 · 34 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Online platform offering remote consultation services with doctors. The platform provides text, audio, or video connections to contact medical experts like nurses, doctors, and mental health specialists. The app's goal is to enable everyone's access to high-quality medical care and mental health assistance easy, affordable, and accessible.
- Jun 2023Seed$2.1M
#3
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2018 · 27 employees$3Mraised▾
Healthforce is software enabling nurses and clinics to manage the medical practice. The platform enables providers to provide telemedicine services to manage patient health. The nurses can use the platform for remote patient health management, communicate with patients and doctors. The patients can earn points by uploading the health data on the platform.
- Jun 2021Seed$3M
#4
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2017 · 6 employees$659Kraised▾
AI-based solution for medical diagnostics. The system can take diagnostic inputs such as radiological images, digital pathology images, symptom lists, and other kinds of patient data which are then analyzed by their proprietary AI engines to produce reports giving likely medical conditions, their probabilities, and possible courses of action to help clinicians make more informed decisions faster.
- Aug 2021Seed$659K
#5
Acquired · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2012 · 6 employees$75Kraised▾
UDoTest develops direct-to-consumer screening tests for STDs and GI disorders. Customers can order these tests at home, send in a sample and receive confidential results within 10 days. The company provides four panels: one for HPV, one for STDs that tests for most common STDs, one for colon cancer and another one for gluten sensitivity.
- Jan 2020Seed$75K
- Dec 2019Grant (prize money)—
#6
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2018—raised▾
Response is a PERS app enabling users to book emergency response services incase of an emergency. The company dispatches an armed response vehicle to the user's location once the emergency alert is triggered via the app. The family members are alerted via the app and connect with the user until the response is dispatched in real-time.
- Sep 2023Seed—
#7
Funding Raised · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2020 · 13 employees—raised▾
Mobile app for the users to order prescribed medicines and to consult doctors online. It helps users connect with doctors, nurses, and chemists so they can receive medical advice and order prescription drugs or other healthcare items for home delivery.
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)—
#8
Series A · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2003 · 76 employees—raised▾
Guidepost Care platform allows caregivers to work together with patients to manage their chronic conditions. Their Carers use the Guidepost platform to track and monitor patients in their portfolio. The platform integrates data feeds from a number of different sources, pulling together a complete view of the patient’s data. Based on near-real-time data, the platform uses the platform to determine the best next steps for the patient’s care. Patients provide their own blood glucose readings periodically. Using the patient-provided data in combination with lab results and doctor feedback, Carers provide telephonic coaching, education and advice on dose titration for the patient’s medication. Coaching allows patients to understand their own condition, determine the changes they need to make in their lives and take action to achieve their health goals.
- Aug 2020Series A—
- Nov 2019Series A—
#9
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2007 · 23 employees—raised▾
Provider of DNA tests for determining health and wellness. The company has developed products in the field of Nutrigenomics (DNA Diet, DNA Health, DNA Oestrogen, and DNA Sport), pharmacogenomics (mygeneRx, mycardioRx, mypsychRx, and mypainRx), and Bio response DIM (identify the indole levels). The tests offer personalized health and nutrition requirements and recommendations based on the results of the DNA tests.
- Apr 2011Seed—
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What Johannesburg researches in digital health
University of Johannesburg and Johannesburg Hospital dominate recent digital-health research, focusing primarily on mobile health and HIV/AIDS interventions, with a contested tone driven overwhelmingly by concern.
- University of Johannesburg32
- Johannesburg Hospital1
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