At Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Company (“FDHIC” or “The Company”), due diligence is conducted on start-ups and is carried out in a systematic way to enable us to make calculated and informed investment decisions. As a venture capital firm, FDHIC invests and empowers scalable tech-enabled start-ups in the health and financial sector. During due diligence, …
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This is FDHIC’s 2022 Healthtech Unicorns Insight Paper and was produced to show where global healthtech unicorns are in relation to where African healthtech companies should place emphasis and resources to drive progress towards building African healthtech unicorns.
According to the World Economic Forum’s 2019 competitiveness report, Nigeria ranks 129th in the world when it comes to access to credit for the private sector. In a country of 200m, with nearly half of that population living in extreme poverty, this is a massive problem. If businesses are unable to access finance, then they …
The adoption of technology in health is quite slow and low in Africa compared to other developed regions. For decades, 90% of African hospitals have been operating entirely manually. In a fast-paced world, where time is of essence to saving lives, paper documentation cannot work. The expected result was a major lack in efficiency, accuracy, …
The Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Company was born out of the urgent necessity to help Africans get the healthcare services they deserve. Innovation in areas like biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, information technology, the development of medical devices and equipment, and more are crucial in improving the poorly developed healthcare system in Africa. It is more important than …
The Jack Ma Foundation’s 2020 Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) competition has announced its top 20 finalists and three Nigerian entrepreneurs made the cut. One of the finalists is Oluwasoga Oni, the CEO, MDaas Global – one of our portfolio companies. The prize competition is an initiative of the Jack Ma Foundation through its Africa Netpreneur …
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In 2017, Koniku, one of our portfolio companies, went into partnership with Airbus to solve the issue of airport and aircraft security. The konikore will detect biological hazards, and spot chemical and explosive threats within 10 seconds. Airbus has made a significant step by partnering with the Mobile Police Department, the canine squad from Alabama …
Koniku, one of our portfolio companies has been announced one of five winners of the humanity prize of the Global Innovation Olympian in the World 2050. The World in 2050 challenge, is a global award, given to honour outstanding startups, research, inventions, and organizations who are solving both present and future global challenges in health, …
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The digital revolution in Africa has to a large extent changed the way people communicate and conduct businesses. While these changes are visible in many sectors, the impact in healthcare systems in Africa is still minute. The adoption of technology in health is quite slow and low in Africa compared to other developed regions. The …
The concept of Telemedicine would seem relatively new. This is based on the limited knowledge of the process and also considering the slow rate at which technology is embraced in the healthcare space. It is also worthy to mention the misconceptions surrounding how the ‘traditional’ hospitals run. Individuals who visit and use these facilities would …
