Dawa Health | Our Story

Our Story

Dawa Health started as a conversation back in 2017 between two childhood friends in Waterfalls, to build a wireless blood pressure monitor to help hypertension management for old people.

Late 2017, the team applied for ACT in Africa Entrepreneurship program, an inbubator and human-centered design program. The same year, the team designed and prototyped their wireless monitor which is patent pending from ARIPO (African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation).

Since 2018, the team has joined BongoHive Innovation Hub to grow their company and services to help Zambian patients. In 2019, the team was fortunate to win some of Southern Africa prestigious awards. As of 2020, Dawa Health was one of the ZICTA ICT program finalists, and one of the few startups in Zambia getting mentorship under the Venture Capital for Africa (vc4a) program.

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Our Evolutionand vision for the future

2017
January

Dawa Health was founded at 707 Clee Drive, Prospect in Harare, Zimbabwe. The team raised money from family and friends to prototype their wireless blood pressure monitor.

June

Dawa Health was selected as one of the incubatees under ACT Entrepreneurship program. The team got acquainted with the principles of human-centred design.

2018
July

Dawa Health filed for a utility patent with African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) for a wireless cardiology monitoring device.

September

Dawa Health was selected under the BongoHive accelaration program in Lusaka, Zambia. Through the program, Dawa Health pivoted their business model and defined their customer profile.

December

Dawa Health won the BongoHive's People's Choice Award.

2019
July

Launched Rudo, a multilingual chatbot via messenger.

October

Won Best Newcomer and Brave Founder Beginnings from Southern Africa Startup Awards.

2020
February

Mentor-Driven Capital by vc4a

March

Pilot and Scale.

Dawa Health forged strategic patnerships to launch and grow the digital health platform.

Future

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