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Ikpeme is a Nigerian internal medicine physician and digital health entrepreneur at the forefront of driving innovation and impacting the Nigerian health-tech landscape.
He is the Founder of Wellahealth, a startup building health and financial technology to improve healthcare access and quality across Africa. Wella Health provides affordable and accessible health insurance plans for common illnesses leveraging pharmacies as the point of care.
As the Founder of the health-tech startup, Ikpeme is on a mission to make healthcare financially accessible to low-income communities. His contributions to the healthcare sector and commitment to leveraging technology for social change have earned him well-deserved recognition and admiration.
Ikpeme Neto’s commitment to societal impact extends beyond business, with his affiliation with PandemicTech, an organization dedicated to supporting innovative solutions for global health challenges, demonstrating his passion for leveraging technology to address critical issues.
Pan-African early-stage venture capital fund Five35 Ventures has received a major anchor investment from the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund, whose resources are managed by MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates).
Kenyan e-mobility firm BasiGo has secured a new investment from Proparco, the private-sector arm of France’s development finance institution, accelerating the company’s mission to expand electric bus services across Africa.
SwiftVEE, described as Africa’s largest online livestock trading platform, has successfully closed a Series A funding round. However, deployment of the new capital depends on finalizing key opportunities in its pipeline.
