West African Telehealth Series A — 500K Patients, Profitable, 2G-Capable

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A telehealth platform operating in Nigeria and Ghana is raising a Series A having reached something few African digital health companies achieve: profitability, at 500,000 patients and 3,000 daily consultations. The technical decision underneath that number is worth stating plainly. The platform is mobile-first and works on 2G, which means it reaches patients on feature phones and degraded networks — the majority of the addressable population, and precisely the cohort that app-based competitors designed for smartphones and stable data cannot serve. That choice constrains the product experience and is the reason the unit economics work at scale in markets where data cost is a real barrier to care. The NHIS reimbursement pathway is in progress, which represents the next step change: insurance reimbursement converts consultations from out-of-pocket purchases into covered care, expanding both volume and revenue per consultation. $3M-$6M is sought for expansion, funding geographic growth, clinical network expansion and the regulatory and integration work the NHIS pathway requires. Investors are backing an already-profitable business rather than underwriting a path to it.