As millions of women face fragmented healthcare, stigma, and limited access to licensed experts, VivaFemini, a new Nigerian startup is poised to transform the landscape.
VivaFemini, founded by Felix Bomide, is an all-in-one women’s health platform designed to provide safe, affordable, and culturally relevant care for African women from puberty to healthy ageing.
In this edition of Techparley’s DRIVE100, where we spotlight Africa’s most promising startups, we turn our attention to how VivaFemini is transforming women’s healthcare across the continent by combining telehealth, community support, and a trusted health marketplace into one Africa-first platform.
“VivaFemini combines AI-enabled, clinician-led teleconsultations, a moderated support community, and a trusted health marketplace into one platform,” Bomide told Techparley. “We solve the lack of safe, affordable, and trusted healthcare access for millions of African women.”
What You Should Know
According to Bomide, VivaFemini addresses these health challenges head-on, integrating teleconsultations, a moderated support community, and a trusted health marketplace into a single, seamless platform.
Recognising that not all users have access to smartphones or the internet, VivaFemini also offers low-tech access through USSD and SMS, ensuring no woman is left behind.
The platform’s key benefits include affordable, dignified care, expert-backed advice, preventive health coverage, and culturally tailored user experiences, something Bomide says is unique to African women.
While global and local players such as Flo, Clue, Helium Health, and mPharma provide cycle tracking, general telehealth, or fragmented clinical services, Bomide says VivaFemini stands apart.
“We are clinician-governed and lifecycle-focused,” Bomide emphasises. “Women face fragmented care, stigma, poor access to licensed experts, and unaffordable products, leading to avoidable health risks and inequities from puberty to healthy ageing.”
The Team Behind the Vision
The startup is led by a team whose combined expertise spans healthcare, clinical research, and technology.
- Felix Bomide – Founder & CEO: A nurse, healthcare operator, and women’s health advocate driving vision, fundraising, and scaling strategies.
- Dr. Ebunoluwa Oluwaferanmi – Co-Founder & Chief Women’s Health Officer: A clinician and researcher specialising in reproductive and maternal health, ensuring medical quality and cultural relevance.
- Oshevire Majoroh – Co-Founder & CTO: A tech leader with experience building scalable health platforms across Africa, responsible for product innovation and system development.
Bomide highlights that their collective frontline healthcare experience, clinical authority, and technological expertise uniquely position them to tackle the gaps in women’s health access.
Overcoming Early-Stage Challenges
VivaFemini has faced several hurdles typical of African healthtech startups. Early-stage funding for women’s health remains limited, but the team is bootstrapping while building pre-launch traction and engaging impact-driven investors.
Reaching non-smartphone users presented another challenge, solved through offline access via USSD, SMS, and call centres. Lastly, breaking entrenched healthcare stigma is being tackled through community support and trust-building campaigns integrated into the platform.
Looking ahead, VivaFemini plans to launch in Nigeria in January 2026, with goals to onboard over 12,000 users and 200 clinicians, and establish initial B2B partnerships with employers.
By year two, the startup aims to scale to 80,000+ users across West Africa. Within three years, expansion into Francophone and East Africa is planned, with added services in diagnostics and pharmacy. By year five, Bomide envisions VivaFemini serving over five million women, cementing its position as Africa’s premier women’s health ecosystem.
What This Means
Bomide stresses the role of government in fostering startup growth, advocating for policies like tax breaks, affordable internet, regulatory pathways, and incentives for female entrepreneurs.
Despite the optimism surrounding tech innovation in Africa, Bomide points to limited broadband, fragmented payments, logistics, and healthcare systems as the biggest barrier.
The digital-health sector across Africa is entering a phase of rapid expansion. The market was valued at about $3.8 billion in 2023, and is projected to reach approximately $16.6 billion by 2030. According to analysts, this highlights the growing adoption of telehealth, mobile health services and remote-care delivery platforms across the continent.
Industry leaders say VivaFemini stands as a bold response to these challenges, a testament to what African women’s health innovation can achieve when technology, clinical expertise, and cultural understanding converge.
With its upcoming launch, experts and observers say the platform is set to reshape healthcare access for millions of women across the continent.
Talking Points
It is impressive that VivaFemini is tackling one of Africa’s most persistent healthcare challenges. By combining AI-enabled teleconsultations, a moderated support community, and a trusted health marketplace, VivaFemini is reimagining how African women access care across every stage of life.
The inclusion of USSD and SMS channels is particularly noteworthy, ensuring that even women without smartphones or reliable internet are not excluded, a critical move in bridging digital and healthcare divides.
At Techparley, we recognise how innovations like VivaFemini can serve as powerful enablers of health equity, particularly for women in underserved or rural communities who often face stigma and neglect in traditional healthcare systems.
As VivaFemini prepares for launch, opportunities lie in expanding partnerships with public health agencies, NGOs, and telecom operators to drive adoption and accessibility.
With the right ecosystem support, VivaFemini could become the defining platform that reshapes women’s healthcare delivery across Africa, making inclusive, dignified, and expert-led care a reality for millions.
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