IMPACT

START-UP DIRECTORY

This directory brings together the ventures that have received PEL funding, highlighting their innovative solutions, founders, and contributions.

SukaaliKnow Ltd

Enables accurate, standardized Type 2 diabetes risk assessment for healthcare providers.

Founder

HELLEN NAKABUYE

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SukaaliKnow Ltd

Problem Description

Diabetes Type 2 is on the rise in our communities, and help is often offered after life-changing complications occur. This condition is reversible once risk is identified early during prediabetes phase (high risk) or intermediate risk. Lifestyle changes especially in diet and physical activity can tremendously lower one’s risk. There is need for an easy, accurate, and standard Diabetes Type 2 risk assessment tool to identify and quantify patients’ risk early.

The Solution

SukaaliCheck Application offers healthcare providers easy, accurate, and standard Diabetes Type 2 risk assessment to identify and quantify patients’ risk before life-changing complications occur, saving resources and lives. Following up high risk patients, confirmatory test recording when recommended, lifestyle recommendations, and data collection all in one place.

Priority for Resources Received

Improving an existing product, Conducting Market Research, Piloting the solution, Securing partnerships, Registering the business, ETHICAL APPROVAL

Impact as a Result of Support Received

438 patients were screened for diabetes type 2 risk using the SukaaliCheck Application, with 145 high risk individuals identified and given appropriate lifestyle recommendations to lower their risk.

Liver AI

Helps identify and characterize high-risk liver cases.

DIGAMS - Impala Healthtech Research

Connects healthcare providers, labs, pharmacies, and professionals through an integrated digital health platform.

Founder

CHRAISH MIIRO

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103

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DIGAMS - Impala Healthtech Research

Problem Description

The Solution

DIGAMS is an integrated digital health marketplace and clinical intelligence platform designed to connect healthcare facilities, diagnostic laboratories, pharmacies and healthcare professionals.

At the infrastructure level, DIGAMS enables healthcare facilities to access and transact for diagnostic services, refer and track laboratory samples, manage pharmacy services, and connect with other healthcare providers through a digital marketplace. This creates a connected ecosystem through which healthcare and diagnostic services can be accessed and coordinated more efficiently.

Priority for Resources Received

Improving an existing product, Piloting the solution, Securing partnerships, Generating revenue, Recruitment of new team members

Impact as a Result of Support Received

The biggest story has been an effective integration into the entire district health system in Buikwe District, supporting Public and private no for profit health facilities through the Hub System using DIGAMS. More than 100 clinicians have got access to advanced diagnostics, and are able to make evidence-based decisions.

Aicyclinder- Feyti Medical Group

Streamlines regulatory dossier preparation, review, and compliance for faster medicine approvals.

Founder

NOEL KANSIIME

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Aicyclinder- Feyti Medical Group

Problem Description

Pharmaceutical companies and regulatory teams face significant challenges in preparing, reviewing, managing, and submitting regulatory dossiers such as CTD applications. Dossier preparation is often highly manual, time-consuming, and dependent on extensive document review, formatting, cross-referencing, and compliance checks. These challenges can lead to errors, repeated revisions, increased costs, and delays in regulatory submission and approval of medicines. There is also limited access to intelligent tools that can efficiently process large volumes of regulatory documents while ensuring alignment with applicable regulatory requirements.

The Solution

Feyti is developing an AI-powered regulatory platform that streamlines the preparation, review, management, and submission of regulatory dossiers. The platform uses AI to support document classification, information extraction, document review, compliance assessment, cross-referencing, and identification of missing or inconsistent information within CTD/dossier submissions. By reducing manual work and improving the quality and consistency of regulatory documentation, the solution aims to shorten dossier preparation timelines, reduce errors and rework, and ultimately contribute to faster and more efficient regulatory review and approval of medicines.

Priority for Resources Received

Prototype Development, Building a Minimum Viable Product, Improving an existing product, Conducting Market Research

Impact as a Result of Support Received

The support enabled Feyti to advance the development of its AI-powered regulatory platform, enhance key product functionalities, conduct market research, and improve the platform’s alignment with applicable regulatory requirements and legal frameworks. The program also strengthened Feyti’s market readiness and helped the team build strategic institutional partnerships, including engagements with the Uganda Industrial Research and Development Corporation (UIRI) and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST). In addition, Feyti has progressed customer engagement and prequalification processes with potential customers, including Freyr, DEI Biopharma, and PLG, providing valuable insights into market needs and opportunities.

Gritap AI - Gritap Innovations (U) Ltd

Explainable AI that predicts viral rebound and treatment failure in Ugandan patients on HIV therapy.

SIMU

AI tutor delivering NCDC-aligned, competency-based learning to Ugandan secondary students via web and WhatsApp.

Founder

PATIENCE SITATI

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SIMU

Problem Description

Uganda’s secondary schools moved to the NCDC Competency-Based Curriculum, but the support students need to actually learn under it hasn’t followed. Class sizes make individual feedback impossible; most teachers were trained under the old content-heavy syllabus, and the CBC’s emphasis on application, scenarios, and competencies is exactly the part students can’t practice alone.

Outside class, a learner revising for UNEB has three options: a textbook with no one to explain it, a private tutor their family can’t afford, or a general-purpose AI chatbot that isn’t aligned to the Ugandan syllabus, can’t cite a source, and confidently invents content. The access gap compounds the learning gap, most students reach the internet through a shared low-end phone and a WhatsApp bundle, not a laptop and broadband, so even good digital learning tools are built for a device and a data plan they don’t have.

The Solution

SIMU is an AI tutor for Ugandan secondary students (S1–S6), aligned to the NCDC Competency-Based Curriculum and delivered over both the web and WhatsApp. Unlike a general chatbot, every answer is grounded in the actual curriculum corpus: SIMU retrieves from ingested NCDC syllabi and textbooks and returns explanations with citations back to the source material, using the syllabus to keep responses inside the scope a student is actually examined on. The tutor works in multi-turn conversation, anchors explanations to CBC competencies, and generates scenario-based, UNEB-style practice checks rather than recall questions — so students practice the form of thinking the curriculum assesses. A safety layer screens every exchange in both directions, which matters when the users are minors.

Delivery is the second half of the solution. WhatsApp means a student can learn on the phone they already own without a new app or a data plan they can’t afford, while the web app serves schools and better-connected learners. Teacher and admin dashboards give schools visibility into progress, and tiered access free, school license, and premium lets us keep an always-free tier for individual students while schools and paying users carry the cost.

Priority for Resources Received

Prototype Development, Building a Minimum Viable Product, Improving an existing product, Conducting Market Research, Piloting the solution, Securing partnerships, Registering the business, Recruitment of new team members

Impact as a Result of Support Received

Without this program’s support, SIMU wouldn’t have reached this stage or completed market validation. Building in a silo often gives a false impression of what users actually need. By visiting schools like Airforce Secondary and Boston High School, we spoke directly with teachers sampling SIMU and gained deeper insights. For instance, we discovered that students urgently need supplementary resources—specifically animated explanations to clarify complex concepts and a wider library of books (especially at A-level) to support their learning.

Law Lens - Magentiq AI Labs Ltd

AI-powered legal research tool trained on Uganda’s legal framework for faster, locally grounded legal research.

START-UP DIRECTORY

SukaaliKnow Ltd

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SukaaliKnow Ltd

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Liver AI

Co-Founder

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Liver AI

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DIGAMS - Impala Healthtech Research

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DIGAMS - Impala Healthtech Research

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The Solution

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Aicyclinder- Feyti Medical Group

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Aicyclinder- Feyti Medical Group

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Gritap AI - Gritap Innovations (U) Ltd

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Gritap AI - Gritap Innovations (U) Ltd

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SIMU

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SIMU

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Law Lens - Magentiq AI Labs Ltd

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Gritap AI - Gritap Innovations (U) Ltd