Healthtech from Africa, built for the world

Saving lives through innovation. Smarter healthcare - better outcomes.

MamaOpe Medicals leverages data and innovation to make quality care inclusive, proactive, accessible and standardised by empowering frontline health workers.

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Live auscultation

Lung scan · L3

Resp rate

42 /min

Device flag

Crackles

Diagnosis-ready in under 60 seconds — usable over telemedicine.

Funded, recognised & supported by

Villgro Africa • WiNFUND • Reckitt • Baobab Network • Science for Africa Foundation • Makerere University • CNN • BBC • Villgro Africa • WiNFUND • Reckitt • Baobab Network • Science for Africa Foundation • Makerere University • CNN • BBC •

The problem

A diagnosis gap is costing millions of lives.

Many health systems face critical shortages of skilled healthcare workers, leaving frontline clinicians to manage high patient volumes with limited diagnostic support. This contributes to missed diagnoses, delayed treatment, and inconsistent care, particularly for high-burden conditions such as tuberculosis and pneumonia.

MamaOpe exists because in 2014, our co-founder Olivia lost a loved one to pneumonia after a misdiagnosis. We're building the diagnostic and decision-support tools for clinicians, empowering them to make better-informed decisions and deliver targeted care.

Antibiotic over-Rx

60%+

Children under 5 with acute respiratory illness who receive antibiotics across several African countries — many unnecessarily, fuelling resistance.

With HealthNavi

85%+

Health worker adherence to clinical guidelines using HealthNavi in pilot study.

Speed

10x

Faster pneumonia detection than a conventional stethoscope, per our device measurements.

Reach

168

Patients screened across our pilot facilities to date.

Our solutions

Different products. One mission.

One listens. One guides. Together, they empower healthcare workers with the intelligence needed to detect disease earlier, make better clinical decisions, and deliver high-quality care.

DEVICE Hardware + AI

MamaOpe Smart Auscultation Device

A portable, wireless, smart device that turns heart and lung sounds into clear diagnostic insights. Designed for the clinic or telemedicine and rugged enough for low-resource settings.

Captures sound patterns, respiratory rate, and temperature in one pass
Smart analysis flags abnormal sounds for clinician review
Wireless & telemedicine-ready for remote consultations
Designed for paediatric and adult auscultation

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SOFTWARE Clinical decision support

HealthNavi CDSS

An AI-powered Clinical Decision Support System that guides health workers through evidence-based protocols at the point of care, reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions and improving outcomes.

85%+ adherence to clinical guidelines in pilot
Combats antibiotic resistance by reducing unnecessary prescriptions
Works offline-first in low-connectivity environments
Integrates with MamaOpe device + external EMRs

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Market opportunity

Africa's healthcare market is scaling fast

Africa's digital health market is projected to exceed $16 billion by 2030, creating an unprecedented opportunity to transform healthcare delivery, strengthen frontline care, and improve health outcomes for over 1.4 billion people.

Primary market

East Africa

Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda are our launch corridor.

Buyers

3 channels

Public health systems, private clinic networks, telemedicine & NGO programmes.

Why now

AI + access

Edge AI, cheap connectivity and digital health policy reform have aligned for the first time.

Impact alignment

Built on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Our work maps directly to three SDGs that impact investors and development partners measure us against.

Good Health & Well-being

Reducing under 5 mortality from pneumonia and other respiratory illness through faster, more accurate diagnosis at the point of care.

Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure

Pioneering African led medical device innovation building local R&D capacity rather than importing solutions.

Reduced Inequalities

Making advanced diagnostics affordable and usable in low resource settings, narrowing the healthcare gap.

Case study

In the clinic, what changes.

During our HealthNavi pilot in 3 facilities in Uganda, health workers adopted the system across triage. The result: faster, more confident decisions on whether to prescribe antibiotics — and a measurable shift toward evidence-based care.

85%+

Guideline adherence

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Pilot site lead

"It will address issues of staff shortages because anyone can use this tool e.g. if the doctor is not available, the nurse is able to decide on the next steps while they are waiting for the doctor to come."

— HW4, HealthCentre III, Kampala

168

Patients screened

Clinicians trained

Months in pilot

The team

Engineers, clinicians, operators.

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people."

Co-founder · Team Lead

Olivia Koburongo

Founder and Team Lead. Leads strategy, fundraising, and growth. An engineer with an MBA, she founded the company after losing a loved one to a pneumonia misdiagnosis and is dedicated to improving healthcare through innovative diagnostic technologies.

Co-founder · Technical Lead

Besufekad Shifferaw

Co-Founder and Technical Lead. He oversees the company's technology vision, product strategy, and engineering execution leveraging expertise in Computer Engineering, Information Technology and Business.

Advisor

Bob Hauck

Seasoned medical device and healthtech expert with more than 38 years of experience in product design and development. A former Chief Mechanical Engineer at GE Healthcare.

Clinical Advisor

Dr Martin Balaba

Physician and health innovation leader with extensive experience in digital health, artificial intelligence, and healthcare entrepreneurship, innovation scaling, and strengthening health systems.

Investors & partners

Back the next generation of African medtech.

We're scaling proven technology into one of the world's most underserved healthcare markets. Whether you invest in health equity, AI diagnostics or frontier medtech or you operate a hospital network, telemedicine platform or NGO programme, let's talk.

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What investors get

Founder-led team with 8+ years in market
Two products in active pilot, peer-reviewed evidence
Strong impact alignment (SDG 3, 9, 10)
Backed by Villgro Africa, WiNFUND, Health Innovation Exchange (Hiex)

What's new at MamaOpe.

Partnership

MamaOpe partners with the Science for Africa Foundation

Collaboration to advance AI-driven diagnosis and management of respiratory illnesses across the continent.

Perspective

Addressing Africa's healthcare worker shortage

How HealthNavi's real-time decision support helps frontline workers cope with a projected 6.1M HCW shortfall by 2030.

Conference

MamaOpe Participates in Digital Health Africa 2025

We're excited to share our findings on the MAMAOPE Clinical Decision Support System at the Digital Health Africa 2025 conference, focusing on bias, gold standards, and workflow integration.

Research

HealthNavi CDSS pilot shows promising results

95%+ adherence to clinical guidelines and a measurable reduction in unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions in low-resource settings.