Best HealthTech Companies in Kenya
The 54 best HealthTech companies in Kenya in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MyDawa.
Kenya's HealthTech sector has 54 companies tracked here, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, with a combined $69M raised and MyDawa leading the pack at $28M. Turaco sits second at $17M, Ilara Health third at $12M, and the rest of the field trails well behind. That gap between the top three and everyone else tells you something real about where capital is concentrating right now. The global market backing all of this sits at roughly $908.5B in 2023 and is forecast to reach $3140.9B by 2033, a 13.1% CAGR that makes Kenya's early-stage density feel less like a local quirk and more like the leading edge of a much larger wave.
Hot themes this quarter are digital health consultation, innovation agency funding, and national fund activity, all of which I'd watch closely if you're trying to map where the next check lands. Digital health investment patterns abroad, like Watch Your Health's recent raise and the ISB DLabs access-rewiring model, signal that emerging-market founders are finding traction with payers and platforms simultaneously. Back in Kenya, active backers like Villgro Africa and DOB Equity are shaping the deal flow. Data privacy and shifting regulatory requirements remain the structural friction point every founder here is managing.
- Allied Market Research
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 Kenya
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MyDawa Online store for the purchase of medicines and other products | $28M | 14 mo ago | Series B | Neil Lear Founder | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityAlgoliaGoogle Maps+36 | 2 job openings |
| 2 | Turaco Provider of online micro-health insurance platform for individuals | $17M | 7 mo ago | Series A | Peter Gross Co-Founder | 2018 | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesTypekit+10 | 1 partnership |
| 3 | Ilara Health Provides AI-based diagnostics solutions for healthcare providers | $12M | 18 mo ago | Series A | Emilian Popa Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | Node.jsHeadless UITailwind CSS+14 | — |
| 4 | Capsule Provider of ambulance booking platform for emergency services | $6M | 69 mo ago | Series A | Maria Rabinovich Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | AfyaRekod Provider of an AI and blockchain-based patient data managing software | $2M | 53 mo ago | Seed | John Kamara Founder | 2019 | PHPZohoUbuntu+14 | — |
| 6 | M-TIBA Mobile payment wallet for healthcare services | $2M | 89 mo ago | Seed | Michiel Slootweg Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — |
| 7 | Zuri Health Provider of an online teleconsultation & appointment booking platform for multiple diseases | $1M | 35 mo ago | Seed | Ikechukwu Anoke Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | Node.jsUbuntuYouTube+14 | — |
| 8 | Malaica Digital pregnancy tracking tool for women | $1M | 24 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | WordPressMySQLPHP+40 | 1 expansion |
| 9 | Lily Health App offering information on women's health | $252K | 91 mo ago | Seed | Emil Sjoblom Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 10 | Totohealth Mobile app providing pregnancy and maternity information | $240K | 115 mo ago | Public | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 11 | ConnectMed Remote video consultations with Kenya-based doctors | $150K | 100 mo ago | Seed | Melissa McCoy Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
Top 12 HealthTech companies in Kenya
#1
Series A · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2018 · 102 employees$16.7Mraised▾
Provider of online micro-health insurance platform for individuals It offers microinsurance with low premiums. It also offers claims processing services. It provides microinsurance to low-income earners. It distributes microinsurance through partnerships with businesses.
#2
Series B · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2017 · 40 employees$28Mraised▾
Online store for the purchase of medicines and other products. The platform allows users to order prescription medicines and OTC products including dietary supplements and multivitamins, personal medical devices, hygiene products, beauty and skincare products, etc. The user needs to upload their prescription for ordering medicines.
#3
Series A · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2019 · 143 employees$11.7Mraised▾
Ilara Health provides an AI-based solution for diagnostics. It offers its propriety robotic technology for the portfolio of blood tests. It also offers software solutions linked with various diagnostics solutions that enable the doctors with electronic medical record (EMR) systems for recording patient data. The AI technology incorporated by the company in the device has the ability to diagnose and provide results in 10 minutes for the provides and patients. It has features to generate customized health tips and reminders to patients based on health conditions.
#4
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2022 · 14 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of parenting information and an online retailer of mother and baby products dedicated to providing resources, support, and advice for parents in Nairobi, Kenya. The company offers to make the pregnancy journey safe and convenient for African mothers, program includes a number of proven interventions delivered by a dedicated nurse-midwife, the program is all digital and on track to become financially sustainable, enabling medical and emotional support, tips, and advice to support you throughout pregnancy.
#5
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2020 · 54 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Provider of an online teleconsultation & appointment booking platform for multiple diseases. It provides a digital health platform that enables users to find healthcare professionals based on their needs and can schedule an appointment with them. It provides an online pharmacy where users can order medications for multiple therapeutic conditions. Users can also search for diagnostic labs, hospitals, home care services, and more.
#6
Series A · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 28 employees$6Mraised▾
Developer of an emergency response system designed to address the goals and concerns of the emergency response teams. The company's system offers real-time tracking, reporting, resource management and coordination, enabling clients to directly interface with hospitals and clinics, government and private, to easily facilitate immediate intake.
#7
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2019 · 35 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of an AI and blockchain-based patient data managing software. The platform allows patients to store and access medical data in real-time and allows them to send it to doctors. It also provides telepharmacy, disease modeling, online booking, and others.
#8
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2015$1.5Mraised▾
Mobile payment wallet for healthcare services
#9
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2017 · 7 employees$252.2Kraised▾
Developer of a healthcare application intended to offer information on women's health. The company's application helps the user to communicate users via chat to discuss women's health and access private reproductive health information and its concerns and also search for information, articles, or tips for health issues, enabling women to live better lives and take care of their health.
#10
Public · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2014 · 7 employees$240Kraised▾
Toho health is a mobile health solution that provides necessary health-related information to pregnant women and mothers of kids. Allows parents to monitor the development of their child using the electronic set of Totohealth’s disability indicators. It also matches the parents to the right health care service providers. Provides timely messages based on the stage of pregnancy or child's age. The messages notify user the abnormality and enabling them to seek timely care. Also offers a solution for organizations and counties for the communities they serve by registering parents to the platform and sending them Totohealth content. The content covers various subjects including vaccination reminders, clinic appointments, nutrition and family planning advice, etc.
#11
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 6 employees$150Kraised▾
Remote video consultations with Kenya-based doctors
#12
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 9 employees$75Kraised▾
Developer of a security application intended to provide an emergency response services. The company offers subscription-based services like Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) and roadside assistance, booking of ambulance services, security, road rescue and others at the tap of a button, enabling users to connect to professionals and ask for emergency help.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of HealthTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time flat
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth flat
How research on Digital Health is moving in Kenya
A read on the academic research around Digital Health — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 648 Kenya-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Health313
- Kenya Medical Research Institute92
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention45
- University of Nairobi41
- African Population and Health Research Center22
- Health administration1→4
- Health care4→64
- Public health9→42
- Health informatics13→44
- Psychological intervention3→26
- Health administration11→26
- Health care6→100
- Public health17→97
- Health informatics27→104
- Health administration27→82
- Nursing research13→62
Where digital health is researched across Kenya
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.