SonoCare, Nigerian health start-up for females has raised US$250,000 in funding from Gray Matters Capital through GMC coLABS to scale its operations. SonoCare will use this fund to develop a mobile app and deploy more mobile units for catering to 200,000 pregnancies by 2020.
SonoCare was established in 2015 to provide services spanning the spectrum of women’s health like on-demand mobile 3D/4D diagnostic imaging and cardiac monitoring. This start-up was in Nigeria to deploy a web and mobile resource for patient information transmission and interdisciplinary collaboration.
So far, SonoCare has screened over 26,000 women from 17 rural communities and detected over 15,000 high-risk pregnancies.
It provides cost efficient programmes scaled to the needs of hospitals, satellite clinics and healthcare providers using a combination of the most advanced imaging systems and highly trained, registered technologists as sonographers.
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“We are excited to partner with GMC coLABS as our first institutional investor, as we both share the vision and passion to positively impact the lives of women. With this investment, we will be able to scale our operations through our mobile app in addition to deploying more mobile units. This will push us to reach our first 200,000 pregnancies by 2020 and to profitability,” said Dr Moses Owoicho Enokela, managing director at SonoCare.
“With its mobile diagnostic services, SonoCare detects pregnancy complications before they become threats to the lives of women, giving those in low resource areas a better chance for safer pregnancies and deliveries,” said Jennifer Soltis, portfolio manager for coLABS at Gray Matters Capital.