Intro

Afya Ya Mnyama Digital is a livestock health technology company enabling farmers to monitor animal health in real time and prevent disease-related losses through data-driven insights.

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The Problem

Livestock farming is a critical source of income and food security, yet it remains highly vulnerable to disease and inefficiencies in herd management. Farmers often rely on manual observation, meaning diseases are detected only at advanced stages.

At the same time, limited access to veterinary services makes early diagnosis and preventive care difficult. This leads to high mortality rates, reduced productivity, and increased treatment costs, resulting in significant economic losses for farmers.

The Solution

Afya Ya Mnyama Digital provides a sensor-based monitoring platform that continuously tracks key health indicators such as temperature, movement, and behavior. By analyzing this data in real time, the system can detect early signs of disease or stress that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Farmers receive timely alerts and actionable insights, enabling them to intervene earlier, optimize herd management, and improve productivity. This shifts livestock care from a reactive to a proactive model, significantly reducing losses.

In essence, the company brings precision livestock farming to smallholder farmers, transforming animal health management into a predictable and data-driven process.

Currently over 250 farmers onboarded  with over 7500 animals  monitored with our smart sensors.

The Team

The company is led by Maganga Mabula ( Veterinarian  and CEO), alongside a leadership team including Julieth Tarimo (COO) and Dickson Massawe ( Software engineer and CTO), combining veterinary expertise and advanced technical capabilities to build impactful solutions.

Intro

Lishe360 is a nutrition company tackling child malnutrition by combining affordable, fortified food products with scalable, tech-enabled nutrition education for families in Tanzania.

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The Problem

Malnutrition remains a persistent and often invisible crisis, particularly among young children. In Tanzania, many families face a dual challenge: limited access to truly nutritious food and lack of reliable nutrition knowledge among caregivers.

As a result, even when children are fed regularly, their diets frequently lack essential micronutrients. This leads to stunting, weakened immune systems, and impaired cognitive development, with lifelong consequences for individuals and broader economic implications for society.

Traditional interventions tend to address either food supply or education in isolation, limiting their effectiveness in driving sustained behavioral change.

The Solution

Lishe360 takes an integrated approach that simultaneously addresses both availability of nutritious food and nutrition awareness. The company produces locally sourced, fortified food products designed for young children, ensuring that quality nutrition is both accessible and affordable.

At the same time, Lishe360 delivers digital nutrition education to caregivers, providing practical, culturally relevant guidance on feeding practices and child health. This dual model ensures that improved nutrition is not only available, but also correctly adopted at the household level.

By bridging the gap between access and awareness, Lishe360 creates a sustainable pathway to improving child health outcomes at scale. 

Over 260,000 caregivers are reached yearly through digital social media platforms and more than 100,000 units of products have been sold, profitably.

The Team

Lishe360 is led by Simon Mbangalukela (CEO), supported by a team with strong capabilities in operations, growth, and service delivery, including Zakayo Maugo (COO), Dr Daniel Maugo (Chief Services Officer) and Simon Mnyele (Chief Growth Officer).

Intro

Maritest is building automated diagnostic infrastructure to make high-quality medical testing accessible, fast, and scalable across underserved healthcare systems in Africa.

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The Problem

Across many African countries, access to diagnostics remains one of the most critical bottlenecks in healthcare delivery. Testing is typically concentrated in a limited number of centralized laboratories, often located in major cities. For patients in rural or peri-urban areas, this means long travel distances, delayed sample processing, and waiting times that can stretch from days to weeks.

These delays are not just operational inefficiencies—they directly impact clinical outcomes. Late or missed diagnoses contribute to disease progression, higher treatment costs, and avoidable mortality. At the same time, laboratories are often overburdened and reliant on manual workflows, which further limit throughput and introduce risks of inconsistency and error. The result is a system that struggles to scale in the face of growing demand.

The Solution

Maritest addresses this structural gap by decentralizing diagnostics through automated, point-of-care systems that can be deployed closer to patients. Its platform combines integrated hardware and software to streamline the entire diagnostic workflow, reducing reliance on centralized labs and manual processes.

By enabling rapid, on-site testing, Maritest significantly shortens turnaround times and allows healthcare providers to make timely, informed decisions. Automation also improves consistency and scalability, making it possible to expand diagnostic capacity without proportionally increasing human resource constraints.

In doing so, Maritest is not just improving efficiency—it is redefining how diagnostic infrastructure is distributed, making reliable testing available where it is most needed.

The Team

Maritest is led by Hakeem Kakooza (Founder & CEO) and supported by a multidisciplinary team that brings together clinical expertise, product development, and operational execution, including Dr. Hamza Dhabuliwo (Chief Medical Officer) and leaders across engineering, design, business development, and growth.

Across hospitals in East Africa, lifesaving medical devices are everywhere, but they operate in isolation. A ventilator may be keeping a patient alive, a monitor may be tracking vital signs, and an infusion pump may be delivering medication, yet none of these machines communicate with each other or with hospital systems. Clinicians must physically walk from device to device, manually read numbers, and transcribe data by hand. In emergency care, where a single minute can determine an outcome, this disconnect is dangerous.

Vortan was created to close this gap. With MediLink, the company turns any medical device, regardless of brand, age, or connectivity, into a real‑time data source. Hospitals gain instant alerts, continuous monitoring, and AI‑powered insights without needing expensive infrastructure. Vortan’s mission is simple: make medical data flow effortlessly so clinicians can focus on saving lives.

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The Problem

In many low‑resource and rural healthcare settings, digital transformation has stalled not because devices are missing, but because they cannot communicate. This leads to a series of systemic challenges:

• Critical alerts go unnoticed because staff cannot monitor every machine at once.
• Manual data transcription consumes time and introduces errors.
• Integrating devices into hospital systems is prohibitively expensive and often impossible.
• Rural facilities lack stable connectivity, leaving them excluded from digital health solutions.
• Operational costs rise while the quality and speed of care decline.

The result is a fragile system where clinicians must rely on constant vigilance rather than reliable, connected technology. When a patient’s condition changes, the delay between the machine detecting it and a human noticing it can be catastrophic.

The Solution

MediLink is Vortan’s answer: a universal connectivity platform that digitizes medical devices and streams their data in real time, even in environments with limited or no internet access.

The platform brings together several capabilities:

• Seamless integration with virtually any medical device, without proprietary software.
• Real‑time alerts that notify clinicians the moment a patient’s condition shifts.
• Continuous monitoring and visual dashboards that reveal trends and early warning signs.
• AI‑driven insights that help predict deterioration before it becomes critical.
• Offline/online functionality using technologies like LoRa, enabling deployment in rural areas.
• A cost structure designed for scalability: affordable hardware, a simple SaaS model, and pay‑per‑message pricing.

The Team

Vortan is led by a team that understands both the technical and operational realities of healthcare in emerging markets. Their backgrounds span engineering, software development, finance, and healthcare operations.

• Daniel Mkongo – CEO
  A mechatronics engineer with deep experience building medical hardware and leading technical teams.
• Elius Faustine – COO
  An electronics engineer focused on operational excellence and reliable system deployment.
• Glory Kaaya – CMO
  A marketing specialist with expertise in healthcare adoption and regional market expansion.
• Rebecca Mayunga – CFO
  A finance manager skilled in structuring sustainable growth and managing complex budgets.
• Yosia Lukumai – CTO
  A software engineer responsible for platform architecture, integrations, and AI capabilities.

Introduction

Impactio is building the operating system for NGOs and social enterprises.

Organizations working on social impact, especially across Africa, manage millions in funding, but often operate with fragmented tools, limited visibility, and inefficient workflows. As expectations around transparency and accountability increase, these organizations need better infrastructure to manage funds and demonstrate real impact.

Impactio provides a single platform to manage operations, finances, and impact tracking in one place.

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Problem

Nonprofits and social enterprises operate in a system that is fundamentally broken.

Across Africa, an estimated $89 billion is lost every year to illicit financial flows, highlighting the scale of inefficiencies and lack of transparency in financial systems. At the organizational level, NGOs rely on multiple disconnected tools to manage programs, finances, and reporting.

This fragmentation creates serious challenges. Tracking how funds are allocated and used becomes complex, making it difficult to measure real impact. Reporting to donors is time-consuming and often inconsistent, which weakens trust that is one of the most critical assets for any impact-driven organization.

As a result, organizations struggle with operational inefficiencies, limited accountability, and difficulty sustaining long-term funding relationships.

Solution

Impactio replaces fragmented workflows with a unified platform designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises.

Instead of juggling spreadsheets, accounting tools, and reporting systems, organizations use Impactio to manage the full lifecycle of their operations, from receiving funds to delivering measurable impact.

The platform integrates financial controls directly into programs, allowing organizations to track how money flows in real time and link it directly to outcomes. Built-in tools automate reporting, improve communication with stakeholders, and ensure compliance with donor and regulatory requirements.

By centralizing data and workflows, Impactio makes it easier for organizations to operate efficiently, remain accountable, and clearly demonstrate their impact.

Over time, Impactio aims to become the standard infrastructure layer for the global impact sector bringing transparency, efficiency, and trust to how social impact is managed and measured.

Team

Peter Kanda – Co-founder
Technology leader with over 15 years of experience driving digital transformation across healthcare and emerging markets in Africa.

Sarah Njeri – Co-founder
Program manager and team leader with over 10 years of experience working across NGOs and the private sector.