Next Health Accelerator represents the future of health advancements for women by women. We seek to gather the existing ingenuity in Africa and catalyze it in the mainstream of development solutions for societies that are unequally challenged by lack of access to quality sexual and reproductive health care.
The Next Health Accelerator
The Next Health Accelerator is a revolutionary health innovation accelerator by Intrepid Entrepreneurs for African Entrepreneurs. It endeavors to disrupt healthcare in Africa. NHA selects the best innovators, helps them refine their value proposition and products, provides seed funding and connects them with leading corporations or organizations for value chain access.
6-month
Acceleration program
20+
Mentors
Up to USD 20,000
Seed funding
10+
Startups per cohort
SEED FUNDING
Each startup will receive up to USD 20,000 of seed investment in return for equity (SAFE) during the acceleration phase to facilitate validation of new or improved products and services.
Mentoring
Startups have access to a network of mentors, coaches, experts in their respective fields. Mentors are recruited from an international and national group of entrepreneurs, health experts, investors and organizations’ executives.
Strategic support
Startups will receive support in technology, marketing, and design, as well as entrepreneurship, enabling them to overcome the greatest challenges they face. Our marketers, developers, UI, and UX designers assist in perfecting not only the product but also the branding.
Access to Networks
We have created a strong network of value chain partners willing to adopt and integrate products offered by accelerated startups. Offering this access as non-monetary investment is a key component of our program.
Who we fund
We are looking to support health tech startups with an MVP (minimum viable product) and a desire to scale generally and increase access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) while doing so. The startups will be selected on the basis of the strength of the team, the dedication, and passion of the founders, the potential market size, and the unique value proposition of their product or service.
TRAINING AND SEMINARS
Training, workshops, and seminars on various themes depending on cohorts are organized regularly during the six (6) months of the program.
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I have seen over the past 10 years, entrepreneurs fail due to their inability to penetrate the networks or the industries they aim to disrupt. With the NHA, we aim to offer access to the value chain opportunities that will allow entrepreneurs to validate their solutions and quickly scale in multiple markets with the help of our partners.
Perks
Many perks are available to accelerated startups. They include free or discounted tools such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Stripe Atlas, Happierco, Notion, and many more that are added on a regular basis.
EtriLabs is an innovation ecosystem that nurtures young entrepreneurs and promotes excellence in Africa through the use of digital technology for development. It has expertise in ecosystem building, corporate innovation, and enterprise acceleration.
International Planned Parenthood Federation is a leading non-profit advocate for universal access to contraceptives, gender equality and safe abortion. The organization delivers sexual and reproductive health services that let people make their own choices.
Founded in 2011, the Ouagadougou Partnership is one of the most successful partnerships between the governments, civil society and donors to accelerate the availability and use of family planning services in the nine Francophone West African countries.
The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition is a global partnership of public, private, and non-governmental organizations dedicated to ensuring that all people in low- and middle-income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure their better reproductive health.
DKT International is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to focus the power of social marketing on some of the largest countries with the greatest needs for family planning, HIV/AIDS prevention and safe abortion. DKT works mostly in the private sector, but also support the public sector to reach the total market.
