Empowering Women in Healthcare Innovation and Solutions

Donate

Transforming healthcare access through women-led innovations

Explore

Learn

Women in INnovation fund

About Us

Women form 70% of the global health workforce, and 90% of the frontline health workers are female. Female health entrepreneurs are building on their unique insights in developing solutions that can be transformative for healthcare access. However, less than 2% of global venture capital goes to women-led enterprises.

WiNFUND advocates for equitable financing for female health entrepreneurs and invests in outstanding social entrepreneurs in select countries in Africa and Asia. Apart from financial support, WiNFUND supports entrepreneurs in their journey through connecting them with experts from the public and private sector to accelerate their growth. WiNFUND currently supports entrepreneurs in Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.

the website is too dark -

The Women in Innovation Fund (WiNFUND) was co-founded by Reckitt and HIEx in 2022, along with the Kofi Annan Foundation, to address the inequities in access to financing for female health entrepreneurs

Why Winfund

Investing in female health entrepreneurs for equitable healthcare access

1 in 2 people lack access to basic healthcare

This stark reality underscores the urgent need for innovative solutions to close healthcare gaps in underserved communities

Women-led startups create 6x more jobs

Women-led ventures not only drive innovation but also accelerate job creation, fueling sustainable economic growth

And yet 2% of global venture capital funding reaches women-led ventures

Despite their proven impact, women-led startups remain critically underfunded, highlighting the necessity for equitable investment

we need something here to complete the flow - the info is useful, but so what?

UNLOCKING female entrepreneurship

WiNFUND supports women-led healthcare innovations to improve equitable access to basic healthcare check tagline

Training

We partner with the State University of New York in Albany to support entrepreneurs in building capacities for managing growth. The program is specially tailored for female entrepreneurs in LMICs.

a woman sitting at a table with a tablet

Mentorship

WiNFUND works with industry experts and facilitates a mentorship program that helps bring cutting edge expertise and mentoring for growth for the entrepreneurs.

Apart from access to funding from WiNFUND, entrepreneurs have access to WiNFUND's network of investors in health and are supported to be 'investment ready'. They also have access to global and local health experts and funders.

Financing

a woman shaking hands with another woman sitting at a table

"[The goal is] to reduce the gaps in accessibility and effectiveness of primary healthcare within Africa’s emergency healthcare systems, by the last milestone of the African Union’s Agenda 2063."

Judith Oketch, Founder of Ambulex Solutions Ltd.

★★★★★

not sure i understand this quote in this context