Best HealthTech Companies in Nairobi, Kenya
The 45 best HealthTech companies in Nairobi, Kenya in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MyDawa.
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 Nairobi
| # | 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 | 15 mo ago | Series B | Neil Lear Founder | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityAlgoliaGoogle Maps+36 | — |
| 2 | Turaco Provider of online micro-health insurance platform for individuals | $17M | 9 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 | 19 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 | 71 mo ago | Series A | Maria Rabinovich Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | AfyaRekod Provider of an AI and blockchain-based patient data managing software | $2M | 54 mo ago | Seed | John Kamara Founder | 2019 | PHPZohoUbuntu+14 | — |
| 6 | M-TIBA Mobile payment wallet for healthcare services | $2M | 91 mo ago | Seed | Michiel Slootweg Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — |
| 7 | Zuri Health Provider of an online teleconsultation & appointment booking platform for multiple diseases | $1M | 36 mo ago | Seed | Ikechukwu Anoke Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | Node.jsUbuntuYouTube+14 | — |
| 8 | Malaica Digital pregnancy tracking tool for women | $1M | 25 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | WordPressMySQLPHP+40 | 1 expansion |
| 9 | Lily Health App offering information on women's health | $252K | 92 mo ago | Seed | Emil Sjoblom Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 10 | Totohealth Mobile app providing pregnancy and maternity information | $240K | 116 mo ago | Public | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 11 | ConnectMed Remote video consultations with Kenya-based doctors | $150K | 101 mo ago | Seed | Melissa McCoy Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
Top 12 HealthTech companies in Nairobi
#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 in Nairobi is moving
A read on the academic research around Digital Health in Nairobi — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 60 papers.
- University of Nairobi41
- Aga Khan University Nairobi20
- Nairobi Hospital2
- Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi2
- Geospatial analysis2
- Public health2
- Harmonization2
- Phone2
- Data collection2
- Health care1→6
- Psychological intervention1→3
- Health administration1→3
- Public health3→7
- Nursing research3→6
- Health informatics6→8
- Kenya2→4
- Health administration5→6
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