Portfolio company Cardo Health launches telemedicine app Kena Health in South Africa Published: March 9, 2022 Category: Portfolio Companies Digital health company Cardo Health announces today that it has launched the telemedicine app Kena Health in South Africa. For the early detection and treatment of health conditions, easy access to primary healthcare is crucial. Today, however, Africa has the lowest patient-to-doctor ratio in the world with 0.23 doctors for every 10,000 people, compared to […]
Cardo Health raises USD 17.5 million to take digital health to emerging markets Published: January 11, 2022 Category: Portfolio Companies Stockholm (Sweden), 11 January 2022 – Today, Cardo Health announces the closing of an over-subscribed USD 17.5 million funding round. Founded by former McKinsey Partner and European start-up practice leader Tobias Strålin, Cardo Health is on a mission to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of people in emerging markets. It has embarked on […]
Joshin Raghubar joins Webrock Ventures as Partner Published: October 14, 2021 Category: Portfolio Companies Welcome to our newest team member Joshin Raghubar, who has joined as Partner at Webrock Ventures Africa. Joshin is a technology and impact entrepreneur. He has founded and led several ventures in his career, both in the for-profit and non-profit sectors.
Proptech company Tmpl partners with Webrock Ventures to launch a joint venture in Brazil Published: August 26, 2021 Category: Portfolio Companies Tmpl, the leading digital communication platform for properties in Scandinavia, launches in partnership with Webrock Ventures, proptech Tmpl Brazil. The new venture will combine Tmpl’s property technology with Webrock Ventures’ local expertise, network access, and financing.
Webrock Ventures, Healthforce and Doktor.se launch a telehealth company in sub-Saharan Africa Published: June 20, 2021 Category: Portfolio Companies Webrock Ventures announces today a partnership with the South African digital health company Healthforce, owned by South Africa’s leading retail pharmacy chain Dis-Chem, and Swedish health tech company Doktor.se to launch an app-based telehealth service in Sub-Saharan Africa.
FinanZero raises US$ 7 million in a new round led by Swedish investors Published: April 6, 2021 Category: Portfolio Companies FinanZero announces today that it has closed a US$ 7 million funding round in its fourth round of funding. The round was led by the Swedish investors VEF, Dunross & Co, and Atlant Fonder, all previous investors in the company.
ViBe Saúde raises US$ 10 million to expand its telehealth services in Brazil Published: January 15, 2021 Category: Portfolio Companies ViBe Saúde, the leading B2C telehealth startup in Brazil, announces today that it has closed a $10 million Series A funding round.
Vitor Moreira joins Webrock Ventures as Partner Published: December 17, 2020 Category: Portfolio Companies We are happy to welcome to our newest team member Vitor Moreira. Vitor is the former Head of Corporate Development at Creditas and has spent several years as Vice President at Warburg Pincus and M&A manager at CPMBraxis.
A quick chat with Olle Widén, CEO at FinanZero Published: December 10, 2020 Category: Portfolio Companies We sat down with one of our portfolio’s most impressive founders, Olle Widén, to learn more about why he decided to co-found FinanZero, and how covid-19 has impacted the business.
ViBe featured in Exame Published: December 8, 2020 Category: Portfolio Companies Our portfolio company ViBe is featured in the leading business magazine in Brazil, Exame. In the article, the co-founders Ian Bonde and Ricardo Joseph talks about ViBe's success so far and its plans going forward. “The partnership with one of the European leaders in telemedicine allowed us to develop a platform that is unique in the market and is totally focused on the user."