{"id":9615,"date":"2022-06-27T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2023-03-17T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:48:49","slug":"investing-in-innovation-un-programme-de-7-millions-de-dollars-pour-les-startups-healthtech-en-afrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/investing-in-innovation-un-programme-de-7-millions-de-dollars-pour-les-startups-healthtech-en-afrique\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInvesting in Innovation\u201d : un programme de 7 millions de dollars pour les startups HealthTech en Afrique"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9615\" class=\"elementor elementor-9615\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5a7acf62 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5a7acf62\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-14ef4e44 ot-flex-column-vertical\" data-id=\"14ef4e44\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23467c2b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23467c2b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>The \u201cInvesting in Innovation\u201d (I3) program will provide 30 HealthTech startups operating in Africa with a $50,000 grant. See details.<\/strong><\/p><p><span class=\"lettrine\">The<\/span>Moroccan strategic consulting giant Southbridge A&amp;I and its partners launch I3, a $7 million program for HealthTech in Africa, sponsored in particular by the Gates Foundation, owned by American billionaire Bill Gates, and operated in French-speaking Africa by IMPACT Lab, a Moroccan firm specializing in startup support.<\/p><p>This program is designed to support 30 companies a year over two years, all specializing in HealthTech in Africa, particularly in the distribution of healthcare products.<\/p><p>The project's sponsors are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA NEPAD), the World Health Organization AFRO (WHO AFRO), and the Merck (MSD) and AmerisourceBergen pharmaceutical groups.<\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1596617992743-0\">\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"innercontent\">\u00a0<\/div><p>Through this program, I3 states that it aims to\u00a0<em>\"Identify innovators in the startup or growth phase across the continent. These companies, selected by four accelerators, will receive a guaranteed grant of $50,000 as well as a market access program through events organized across the continent.\"<\/em>.<\/p><p>For Cheikh Oumar Seydi, Africa Director of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, the\u00a0<em>\"local innovations\u00a0<\/em>(africaines, ndlr)<em>\u00a0have the potential to transform the functioning of supply chains and healthcare systems \u2014 and it is time to support them.\"<\/em><\/p><p>\"Note that applications for the first cohort of 30 companies are open starting today and will close on August 14, with the program set to begin on September 19.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/telquel.ma\/instant-t\/2022\/06\/27\/investing-in-innovation-un-programme-de-7-millions-de-dollars-pour-les-startups-healthtech-en-afrique_1773536\/\">https:\/\/telquel.ma\/instant-t\/2022\/06\/27\/investing-in-innovation-un-programme-de-7-millions-de-dollars-pour-les-startups-healthtech-en-afrique_1773536\/<\/a><\/p><p><script src=\"moz-extension:\/\/25fedfe0-2a06-413f-962f-0b6fe123a7a0\/js\/app.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3eb4f6 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-ibutton\" data-id=\"f3eb4f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"ibutton.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ot-button\">\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/innovationsinafrica.com\/fr\/application\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"octf-btn octf-btn-main\">Condidature<\/a>\r\n\t    <\/div>\r\n\t    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le programme \u201cInvesting in Innovation\u201d (I3) permettra \u00e0 30 startups HealthTech op\u00e9rant en Afrique de b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier d\u2019une subvention de 50.000\u00a0dollars. D\u00e9tails. Le g\u00e9ant marocain du conseil strat\u00e9gique\u00a0Southbridge A&amp;I et ses partenaires lancent I3, un programme de 7 millions de dollars pour la HealthTech en Afrique sponsoris\u00e9 notamment par la Fondation Gates, du milliardaire am\u00e9ricain Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10624,"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions\/10624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/south-bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}