Author: Tajudeen Adegbenro

A drug anti-counterfeiting startup RxAll has secured $3.5m in a funding round for further expansion and its technology development. Launch Africa led the funding round, however, firms like SOSV’s HAX and Keisuke Honda’s KSK fund took part in the round as well. Also, towards the end of 2020, RxAll secured a $900,000…

Safe and secure healthcare delivery is still an issue in this aspect of the world and the challenge took another turn specifically during the COVID 19 lockdowns. Imagine a situation where there is no enough medical personnel to serve a specific number of people and all of a sudden, a…

Healthcare apps or medical device apps are becoming more prominent in the area of healthcare management in the community and hospital settings. There is continued growth in the roles of apps used as part of fitness regimes and for social care situations. For product safety, the general requirements apply to…

Mimi Hearing Technologies, partners with Shenzhen Rillya Industries to bring its digital hearing health platform to smartphones. The hearing platform bridges the gap between the learning ability and the listening experience. Globally, more than 1 billion young adults are at the risk of preventable, permanent hearing loss as a result of unsafe…

mhealth, a digital therapeutic pioneer launched a new app myOp which has the ability to reduce the post-surgery complication rate by half and enhance recovery times for even the highest risk patients re surgery. A range of scientific studies shows that up to 30% of surgical patients experience complications after…

The rate at which forest is being deleted in Nigeria may soon be a thing of the past as Golden Seed Fats & Oil has launched a biomass charcoal briquette called Maxiburn a substitute for wood charcoal. The main business of Golden Seed is the processing of nuts to oil…

Entrepreneurship involves the identification of gaps and business opportunities in one’s immediate environment and the gathering of vital resources in an innovative way to fill the gaps, understanding the risks involved, and the process of gaining personal rewards. Information is a vital source of entrepreneurship development, therefore entrepreneurs need to…

OMRON Healthcare, a health monitoring and therapy firm launch OMRON Complete, its first single-led blood pressure (BP) and electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor for home use. The device is designed to detect atrial fibrillation (AFib) the most prominent arrhythmia in clinical practice. OMRON Complete integrates clinically validated ECG technology that can be…

Are you thinking of getting a loan for your business? If yes, then the main reasons why you cannot access loans in Nigeria will be discussed in this write-up. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Bank of Industry (BOI), and Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) recently stated that…

Babban Gona is using technology to enhance agricultural productivity and said it is leveraging machine learning and Artificial Intelligence to enhance small-scale farmers’ yield per hectare. To achieve this goal of utilizing technology to improve farmers’ yield and profitability, Babban Gona invested in mobile and web-based applications that evade the challenges…

Foodtech refers to all technological innovations that revolve around food from the production stage to the service they offer. There are different arms of foodtech classified based on the service or solution they offer. Foodtech covers agtech which deals with enhancing agricultural processes, food science that deals with developing improved…

Countries in the sub-Saharan region of Africa seem to have the lowest prices in absolute terms which makes African food products more affordable to consumers in Europe, however, African consumers do not enjoy the same benefit. There is abundant agricultural produce in the continent, however, there is the challenge of…

In a bid to improve the economic wellbeing of Cross River State Women, the Cross River State House of Assembly has passed a resolution granting approval to the State Government to accept an offer of a credit facility of N1,000,000,000.00 (one billion Naira) from Zenith Bank PLC. In order to…

Agtech operations in Africa have continued to grow as every country is taking vital steps to prevent prospective food security challenges. Agtech is the application of technology in agriculture beyond machines but involves the use of soft applications to make sure agricultural processes and practices are enhanced. Agtech startups established…

CropScope, an ICT agricultural platform says it has resolved some challenging farming issues. NEC has been operating CropScope since April 2020 with Kagome using sensors and satellite photographs to visualize the growth status of tomatoes and soil conditions. It also provides a service that provides farming advice with the aid of artificial…

The funding will help the small agro-processing businesses tap into the regional and national markets and capitalize on opportunities created by the African Continental Free Trade Area. The implementing agency is Mozambique’s The Confederation of Business Associations. President of the Confederation of Business Associations of Mozambique, Dr. Agostinho Vuma, at the ceremony,…

Mobile health apps are on the rise in Africa which brings hope for the continent in its strive towards fairer and better quality healthcare. Mobile health innovations are part of the giant leap in mobile health technology. According to a 2017 report by science and health data company IQVIA, Over 318,000 health…

The World Health Organization has not established a specific definition for mobile health or its role in healthcare. However, the World Health Organizations’ Global Observatory for eHealth defines it as “medical and public health practice offered through mobile devices like patient monitoring devices, phones, personal digital assistants and other wireless…

Nanolike develops new digitized silo fill level monitoring solution. The aim of the platform is to simplify order and inventory management processes of poultry, cattle, and pig farmers and to enhance the supply chain processes of the animal feed suppliers and producers who replenish silos. This reduces the environmental impact…

IBM announced today that Omniolytics, a SA agritech startup chose its products, IBM Watson, operating under the IBM Cloud to develop asset of farming solutions for commercial and emerging poultry farmers. Recently, the SA local poultry industry has encountered a lot of challenges from origins and quality of feeds to high feed…