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A2SV is building a school that teaches itself
The African tech academy started with 22 students. Its most useful invention may be what happens after they graduate: they come back to teach, hire and build.
Huzalabs knows AI needs more than code
The Kigali company builds software, trains the people who will use it, and helps businesses compete for contracts. Its most revealing lesson begins with 35 women and a change of plan.
Kevin Rudahinduka Learned to Speak Business. Then the Systems Started Moving.
The Eden Care Rwanda CEO built his career by translating between engineers, executives and customers. His useful lesson is simple: technical fluency gets systems built; business fluency gets them used.
Eden Care Medical
Eden Care Medical is a licensed digital health insurer building the claims and distribution infrastructure that modernizes health insurance in Africa. Starting in Rwanda and expanding into Kenya, it sells group health cover to employers and their staff, then runs the whole value chain - HR admin portal, an employee app for navigating care and wellness, and digital tools for hospitals and clinics - to cut the cost of insurance in a market where operating costs run 2.2x the global average and penetration sits near 0.2%.
Patricia "Trish" Henwood
Patricia "Trish" Henwood, MD, FACEP is an emergency physician who runs quality and safety across an 18-hospital system as Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer of Jefferson Health in Philadelphia. Before the C-suite, she carried a portable ultrasound probe into an Ebola treatment unit in Liberia and built training programs that put imaging in the hands of clinicians in Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and beyond. She founded the nonprofit PURE to bring point-of-care ultrasound to resource-limited settings, published her bedside Ebola work in the New England Journal of Medicine, and now applies the same systems thinking to closing care gaps for vulnerable populations at home.