AI Innovation Academy grantees
Following the AI Innovation Demo Day 2026, six startups were awarded innovation grants to support the continued development, validation, and commercialization of their solutions. Emerging from the AI Innovation Academy, these teams are developing AI-powered ventures across healthcare, security, public services, and other critical sectors.
Explore the profiles below to discover the innovators, their solutions, and the impact they are building through AI.
AI - Powered Prediabetes Risk Screening, preventing Type 2 Diabetes”
Explainable Machine Learning (AI)-powered clinical decision support tool designed
to predict viral rebound risk in patients on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) before treatment
failure occurs.
Early detection of Liver Cancer with AI-Assisted screening
AI-powered diagnostic support tool using ultrasound and deep learning to help clinicians detect, diagnose, and screen for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) faster and accurately.
AI - Powered Prediabetes Risk Screening, preventing Type 2 Diabetes
AI-powered web and mobile application that enables health workers to screen and predict an individual’s risk of developing Type 2 diabetes using patient data, vitals, lifestyle, family history, and blood glucose results.
Secure, Verified Legal Intelligence for Confident Decisions
A secure, AI-powered semantic search engine that makes Uganda’s legal corpus easily searchable through natural language queries, delivering relevant legal information with 99% citation accuracy.
A trusted CBC research buddy—offline, secure, and built for every Ugandan classroom
SIMU is an AI-enabled platform built for Uganda’s CBC to help secondary students
conduct accurate research. It features a RAG chatbot
AI-powered LMS with NCDC-aligned resources.
AI - Powered Prediabetes Risk Screening, preventing Type 2 Diabetes
Sentinel AI transforms ordinary cameras into an intelligent, real-time security system that detects suspicious activity, reduces false alarms, and triggers instant alerts or coordinated responses for proactive protection.