Ventures

Meds on Demand: Digital tool for medication procurement

Meds on Demand by Maisha Meds is a digital tool that helps healthcare providers manage sales and inventory, source quality medication and provide discounts and subsidies to help patients access high-impact health products.

Wheeling Fruits: Drying fruit instead of tossing it

Wheeling Fruits dries and grounds surplus food with a mobile fruit processing unit in order to make it durable and transportable and thus save costs. This mobile unit can be fitted onto a trailer and move between farming areas.

CDMS: Lowering end user costs of NCD medication

CDMS decreases the procurement costs of NCD drugs for small and medium-sized hospitals by aggregating their demand. They then obtain quantity discounts from pharmaceutical companies and bypass distributors and wholesalers.

Wamala: Cooling milk with solar power

Wamala developed a mobile solar-powered cooling system that produces ice cubes. They allow the cooling of large quantities of milk, without the need for large cold storages and can be flexibly used during transport.

E-/FTTV: Bringing electricity and fiber to the village

Electricity and Fiber To The Village (E-/FTTV) is a shared infrastructure concept that combines the roll out of electricity distribution lines and fiber optic cable in rural areas of Uganda. The simultaneous roll out of the aerial fiber and grid saves up to 40 % of the deployment cost from civil works and right of way.

GoodFish: Fresh fish through continuous cooling

GoodFish is an online marketplace where fish farmers are connected with restaurants and hotels. The businesses can place orders directly on the web application and get the exact amount and quality from the farmers that they trust.

Health Games: Gamifying NCD Health Knowledge

Health Games provides a platform that enables health care actors to develop the needed awareness and knowledge and that allows to reach a big part of the population. Following the “Gamification” approach, it wraps up knowledge into a fun and competitive format.

Deliver Future: Delivering vital medicines by drone

Deliver Future aims at revolutionising medical supply in remote regions by employing specialised autonomous drones. The drone manages 60 kilometres in 40 minutes, thus saving up to five hours compared to usual transportation.

Tax on Phone: Tax declaration and payment via SMS

TaxOnPhone is a mobile and electronic tax system that simplifies tax declaration and payment for SMEs. The system links the online tax platform of the Zambian Revenue Authority to the existing mobile networks in the country.

Agali Awamu: Converting organic waste into biogas

Agali Awamu builds an ecosystem that enables farmers to receive clean cooking gas in return for their organic waste. Farmers come to bring their produce to the sugar factory where the biogas plant is and on their way back take biogas for cooking or heating.

Upstrim: Training managers to make the tourism sector viable

Upstrim offers a modular training programme for upper and middle management in hard and soft skills. Core of the system is a mentoring program that transforms experienced managers into mentors for the trainees of Upstrim.