Healthtech Waspito seeks $4 million to enter Nigeria and Gabon with the help of Orange
Founded in April 2020, Cameroonian Jean Lobe Lobe’s start-up has quickly found an audience in the context of the health crisis. Registered in Limbe and based in Douala, the healthtech start-up, Waspito, is an information and networking platform between patients and practitioners. Lobe’s dream is for it to become the leading social network for preventive medicine on the continent.
15/06/2021 at 16h23, by Africa Business+
To do so, Waspito CEO and founder Jean Lobe Lobe, former head of human resources at British American Tobacco (BAT) for West Africa, plans to raise $4 million from venture capitalists.
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