Two African startups, Wella Health (Nigeria) and Cowtribe (Ghana) are part of the Techstars Impact 2019 class. The class of 10 include startups United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Ghana, and Nigeria.
Wella Health provides affordable, micro-health insurance options targeted at high-occurrence diseases such as malaria while Cowtribe is a last-mile vaccine delivery and payment solution for smallholder farmers in Africa.
Over the next three months, these teams will work intensively with a deep bench of Techstars mentors to pressure-test their business models, while designing for market-driven impact at scale.
The other eight startups are as listed below:
- AgHelp (USA): A platform to solve the acute agricultural labor shortage by connecting agricultural employers, farm workers, and worker support agencies.
- Creation Crate (Canada) is a subscription-based STEM box for in-demand coding and engineering skills.
- Don’t Get Mad Get Paid (USA) enables parents to collect overdue child support payments from the $117B currently in arrears.
- DrugViu (USA) is the first population health platform for communities of color to find relevant medication data, reviews and experiences.
- Mr Presta (USA) is a LATAM-focused lending platform leveraging varied data sources and proprietary algorithms to service the $2.6T credit gap faced by the 70% of small businesses in emerging markets that are unable to access affordable credit.
- Omaiven (USA): Omaiven Health’s conversational AI bridges the $150B barrier to care access problems faced by vulnerable populations through simplified, data-driven NLP patient engagement.
- R3 Score (USA): R3 Score’s proprietary risk-scoring algorithm enables financial institutions and employers to more accurately evaluate individuals with criminal histories.
- VitalFlo makes it easy to manage asthma, empowering patients to take back control over their lung health and take corrective action to prevent asthma attacks before they land someone in a hospital.
These teams join the 44 companies in Techstars Impact portfolio, which have collectively impacted 3.7M people around the globe, reduced over 14,000 tons of CO2 emissions, and enabled over $6.2B in second-tier diversity spend.
