HelpMum secures US$250,000 grant to improve immunisation outcomes in Nigeria

NIGERIA – Healthcare social enterprise, HelpMum, has received a US$250,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to facilitate the administration of vaccines in Nigeria.

According to Abiodun Adereni, HelpMum’s founder, the funding will be used to deploy its artificial intelligence product — ADVISER — which was developed in partnership with researchers from Vanderbilt University while the company was part of the Google AI for Social Good programme in 2021.

HelpMum was launched in 2017 after Adereni discovered that many women died during childbirth because they could not access clean and affordable birth kits.

Its first products were the clean birth kits it sells in semi-rural and rural communities and the vaccination tracking system, which helps mothers track their children’s vaccination needs.

Since its inception, the company has sold over 10,000 units of maternal and baby products (including the HelpMum Clean Birth kit), with over 60,000 nursing mothers registered on the vaccination tracking system and more than 2,000 community health workers using the e-learning platform.

And with funding and support from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, HelpMum plans to improve vaccination rates across Nigeria.

Egyptian Edtech Startup 5 Quarters Raises Seed Round

EGYPT – 5 Quarters, a medical technology startup located in Cairo, has received seed funding from an angel investor in Saudi Arabia.

5 Quarters plans to use the investment to fuel its growth in both the horizontal and the vertical directions. Horizontal growth will occur as a result of expanding the startup’s practical procedure into Saudi Arabia, and vertical growth will occur as a result of adding new services to the medical sector professionals, clinics, and hospitals.

5 Quarters is a medical and dentistry courses startup that was established in 2016 by Mohamed Salah and Noha Emad. The company has been operating in the market for medical education for over 6 years, mostly in Egypt, and its primary focus is on the Egyptian market.

To this day, they have provided service to more than 15,000 consumers throughout the countries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, and Jordan.

They discovered that graduates and professionals in the healthcare industry were struggling with three primary issues: out-of-date information, a dearth of appropriate training in the universities, and pricey traditional training, among other things.

5 Quarters solves all of these concerns by providing a comprehensive selection of online classes led by the industry’s most qualified instructors and backed by credentials awarded by the ADA. in addition to classroom instruction and training in the field.

Estate Intel announces $500k pre-seed round secured last year

NIGERIA – Real estate data analytics platform Estate Intel has announced a US$500,000 pre-seed funding round it raised last year, since when it has expanded into a host of other African countries.

The pre-seed round, banked last year, was led by MetaProp. The US$500,000 in funding was used by Estate Intel to expand its data footprint, which was previously predominantly Nigeria-based, to include other African countries such as Kenya, Zambia, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Ghana.

Furthermore, the company has been able to aggregate data collected into its newly relaunched informative market dashboards with subscription plans for businesses in the real estate and construction space.

These market dashboards track real estate market sizes, rent and sale prices for residential, office or retail markets, pipeline and ongoing projects, with coverage in over 40 areas covered in major African cities.

The company has also recently put a new product extension, called Vesper, into public beta. Vesper is an automated real estate advisor that uses data to help the average African invest in property through quick property value estimates and accurate data to guide personal property investment.

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