Best HealthTech Companies in South Africa
The 187 best HealthTech companies in South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: BroadReach.
South Africa's HealthTech sector gets a proper ranking here, 187 companies tracked and sorted by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum, so you can see exactly where capital is concentrating. Total disclosed funding sits at $343M, and BroadReach dominates that pool almost entirely at $320M, which tells you something about how lopsided early-stage ecosystems can be. The global market these companies are swimming toward hit $908.5B in 2023 and is forecast to reach $3140.9B by 2033 at a 13.1% CAGR, driven largely by digital health adoption and rising healthcare spending across emerging markets.
What I find telling is the gap between BroadReach and the rest. Vitls sits at $6M, Kena Health and RecoMed at $2M each. So the momentum story here isn't about unicorns (there are none) but about a cohort of scrappy digital health platforms building in a market where data privacy regulation is tightening and access gaps are wide. Hot themes right now include digital health consultation and innovation agency funding, a pattern visible across African and Asian markets alike. Investors like Founders Factory Africa and Catalyst Fund are active, which signals patient, infrastructure-minded capital, not just quick exits.
- 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 South Africa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BroadReach Cloud-based analytics for population health | $320M | 13 mo ago | 846 | 2003 | Chris Legrand Chief Executive Officer | WordPressSentryMySQL+25 | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Vitls Developer of a wearable device for remote patient monitoring | $6M | 43 mo ago | 5 | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Healthforce Software for practice management systems for nurses and clinics | $3M | 60 mo ago | 27 | 2018 | — | WebflowAmazon Web Servicescore-js+13 | — |
| 4 | 3X4 Genetics Developer of genetic tests for diagnosing general health | $2M | 78 mo ago | 27 | 2018 | Jason Haddock CEO | Cart FunctionalityShopifyApple iCloud Mail+31 | — |
| 5 | BioCertica Offers personalized DNA and health tests for individuals | $2M | 50 mo ago | 30 | 2019 | Gert Wyk Founder and CEO | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+27 | 1 launch |
| 6 | Kena Health Online platform offering remote consultation services with doctors | $2M | 36 mo ago | 34 | 2021 | Saul Kornik Founder & CEO | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+15 | — |
| 7 | RecoMed Online doctor appointment booking platform | $2M | 27 mo ago | 26 | 2013 | Sheraan Amod Founder & CEO | PythonGoogle MapsReact+15 | — |
| 8 | SyncroPhi Wireless vital signs monitoring system and paperless observation records | $1M | 123 mo ago | 7 | 2007 | David Toohey CEO | — | — |
| 9 | Ingress Healthcare Provider of an online doctor appointment booking platform | $706K | 74 mo ago | 8 | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 10 | VitruvianMD AI-based solution for medical diagnostics | $659K | 58 mo ago | 6 | 2017 | Ifthakaar Shaik Founder & CEO | — | 1 launch |
| 11 | Udok Provider of online medical consultations for multiple health disorders | $614K | 67 mo ago | 8 | 2017 | — | WebflowApple iCloud MailAmazon Web Services+14 | — |
| 12 | Contro Provider of telepharmacy services for sexual health | $585K | 43 mo ago | 8 | 2020 | Alex Schmid Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 13 | Link Health Technology Online health management tool for healthcare professionals | $350K | 61 mo ago | — | 2020 | Daniel Rimbault Co-Founder | — | — |
| 14 | Quainted Intranet for employee wellness | $336K | 114 mo ago | 5 | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 15 | Athena Provider of medical payments management software for healthcare | $250K | 28 mo ago | — | 2022 | Jabulani Nyembe Founder | — | 3 partnerships |
| 16 | Paymenow App-based employee benefits management solutions for businesses | $230K | 11 mo ago | 29 | 2019 | Deon Nobrega Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | BootstrapGSAPNginx+4 | 1 partnership |
| 17 | Vula Mobile Ophthalmology referral platform | $173K | 98 mo ago | 15 | 2012 | — | PythongunicornAmazon Web Services+12 | — |
Top 12 HealthTech companies in South Africa
#1
Funding Raised · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2003 · 846 employees$319.7Mraised▾
BroadReach Healthcare offers a cloud-based platform for population health analytics. The BroadReach Analytics platform combined with the company's Command Center and Knowledge Base allows governments, donor organizations and private companies to improve the health of underserved populations. The platform uses health system performance data, supply-chain data, socio-economic data, benchmarks and surveys to offer reports, alerts, data visualization, forecasting and modeling, intelligence and insights into population health.
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$4M
- Mar 2025Grant (prize money)$4M
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$4M
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$4M
#2
Seed · Stellenbosch, Western Cape · founded 2019 · 29 employees$230.3Kraised▾
App-based employee benefits management solutions for businesses. It offers solutions for employee wellness, employee data management, bill payment, and more. The application is available for iOS and Android platforms.
- Jul 2025Conventional Debt$22.4M
- Mar 2023Conventional Debt$14M
- Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$99.8K
- Jun 2020Seed$230.3K
#3
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2013 · 26 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Online doctor appointment booking platform. Users can search for doctors by medical specialty, location. for each doctor, provides information on qualifications, accepted insurance, languages spoken among others.
- Mar 2024Series A—
- Nov 2021Series A$1.4M
- Nov 2017Seed$324K
- Dec 2015Seed—
#4
Series A · Durban, KwaZulu Natal · founded 2015 · 5 employees$5.9Mraised▾
Developer of a wearable device for remote patient monitoring. It offers a cloud-connected vital signs monitoring platform that tracks body temperature, pulse rate, and others in real-time. Its features include an integrable mobile app, water-resistant devices, and periodical reports.
- Nov 2022Series A$1.3M
- Nov 2021Series A$4.5M
- Dec 2018Seed$385K
- Jul 2018Seed$1.1M
#5
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
#6
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
#7
Seed · Paarl, Western Cape · founded 2019 · 30 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Offers personalized DNA and health tests for individuals. The company provides personalized DNA and health tests to help individuals understand what they should eat and how to live healthier lives. The company combines advanced genetic testing with encryption to provide a tailored wellness experience.
- Apr 2022Seed$1.6M
- 2019Seed$650K
#8
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
#9
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2020 · 8 employees$585Kraised▾
Provider of telepharmacy services for sexual health. The platform offers doctor consultations and the delivery of prescribed medicines. It offers services for birth control, erectile dysfunction, hair loss, sexually transmitted diseases, and more.
- Nov 2022Seed$585K
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)—
#10
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2018 · 27 employees$2.5Mraised▾
3x4 Genetics offers DNA genetic tests on how to manage health with DNA testing. The home-based diagnostic kit can be used to test the genetic biomarkers from the sample. The app can be used to scan the QR code of the test to obtain the test results. The report provides data on the identified gene pathways and health analytics which can be shared with the health care provider.
- Dec 2019Series A$2.5M
- Jan 2018Angel—
#11
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
#12
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2019 · 8 employees$705.9Kraised▾
Ingress Healthcare is a provider of an online doctor appointment booking platform. It allows users to search for doctors based on their requirements and can book an appointment with them. Users can book services for pediatricians, ENTs, dermatologists, psychiatrists and physiotherapists, dermatologists, and many more.
- Apr 2020Seed$329K
- Jan 2019Seed$376.9K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of HealthTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Digital Health is moving in South Africa
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 596 South Africa-affiliated papers.
- Department of Health78
- University of Cape Town67
- University of the Witwatersrand64
- Stellenbosch University48
- University of KwaZulu-Natal46
- Public health1→8
- Health care1→42
- Health informatics5→32
- Public health4→27
- Health administration2→22
- Nursing research2→21
- Health care12→90
- Health informatics19→94
- Public health13→84
- Nursing research13→66
- Health administration25→70
Where digital health is researched across South Africa
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
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