Understanding health-based stratup landscape in the MENA region.

1. ‫الرحيم‬ ‫الرحمن‬ ‫هللا‬ ‫بسم‬
A Brief Analysis of
MENA’S Health Sartups
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2. Statement of Purpose
“If the region’s startup health ecosystem is sufficiently
developed, health startups could provide innovative health
and economic solutions adapted to a local context; maximizing
the region’s capacity for generating and adopting advanced
healthcare, and creating jobs that contribute to the formation
of a knowledge-based economy.”
(MEMAKER, 2016)
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3. What is ME-MAKERS’ Report?
It’s a part of the ME-Makers’ initiative.
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4. What is MEMAKERS’ Initiative?
It’s a partnership between GE and Wamda to support and enable the
industrial entrepreneurship movement in the MENA region.
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5. What is Wamda?
Wamda is a platform of programs and networks that aims to accelerate
entrepreneurship ecosystems across MENA.
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6. What is Wamda Research Lab?
The WRL was launched in 2014 to conduct applied research on MENA
entrepreneurship.
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7. Defining health startups
For-profit enterprises that seek to improve the quality, increase the
access, and lower the costs of healthcare.
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8. Defining the startup health ecosystem
Collection of stakeholders supporting the region’s health startups,
including publically and privately funded organizations.
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9. What’s the meaning of a scaling startup?
• A product-market fit;
• A repeatable customer acquisition model;
• A mix of follow-on investment, new partnerships, employees, and
cross-border growth.
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10. Involved Sectors
Health IT
Digital
hospitals
Connected
Health
Digital
Therapeutics
Mobile
Health
Health 2.0
Data &
Analytics
3D printing
& hardware
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11. Methodology of Data Collection
1. Conducting a regional mapping of institutions supporting health
entrepreneurs in MENA,
2. Exploiting Wamda’s media arm and events,
3. Interviewing 120 stakeholders in MENA’s startup health ecosystem
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12. Stakeholders’ composition
• 76 entrepreneurs,
• 27 thought leaders,
• 14 investors,
• 3 incubators & accelerators.
Note: Thought leaders represent individuals from NGOs, corporations, and university professors with
specialized understanding to support the growth of healthcare and entrepreneurship in MENA.
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13. From initial data collection to
sample selection
After collecting the data, they selected 61 startups as the sample for
analysis in this report.
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14. Bases of the interviewing questions
• The status of health entrepreneurship in MENA, and globally
• Starting and scaling a private health company in MENA
• Access to relevant talent, mentors and finance
• The role of universities, corporations, and governments in achieving
scale
• Marketing startup health solutions in MENA
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15. Key statistical figures
0.4 4.5 6.36.4
24.2
55.9
20 24.8 29.123.8
59.7
103.2
10.1
22.6
38.9
60.8
135.9
233.3
0
50
100
150
200
250
2013 2017 2020
MARKETVALUEINBILLIONUSDOLLARS
YEAR
Global digital health market from 2013 to 2020, by segment
(in billion U.S. dollars)
Telehealth Mobile health EHR/EMR Wireless health Other Total
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16. Key statistical figures
2003, 30.4
2013, 95.8
2020, 144
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
2003 2013 2020
BILLIONU.S.DOLLARS
Government Spending in healthcare sector (MENA-REGION) in billion U.S. dollars
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17. Health startups across the MENA region
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18. Support ecosystems for a health startup
The wider healthcare
market and the regulatory
ecosystems
The healthcare industry
ecosystem
The startup technology
ecosystem
Health startup
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19. Health startups as a solution for unemployment
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20. References
http://www.statista.com/statistics/387867/value-of-worldwide-digital-
health-market-forecast-by-segment/
http://www.wamda.com/about
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