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Rowena Luk

@rowenaluk

Innovations in Global Health. HealthTech for Africa. Impact Investor. Founder of Africa Health Ventures.

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Django is arguably the startup tech world's best-kept secret. Here's why you don't hear about it: 1. The personality of the community is to not be self-promotional. This is probably related to it being community-led, not run by a celebrity like rails or Laravel, or a company

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What exactly are the World Health Organization (WHO) and IDRC | CRDI doing to stay ahead of the risks of #AI for global health? Tune in to hear in their own words: rowenaluk.substack.com/p/ai-for-healt… Today's episode features a guest appearance from fellow #digitalhealth #podcaster Sam Oti 🎤

What exactly are the <a href="/WHO/">World Health Organization (WHO)</a> and <a href="/IDRC_CRDI/">IDRC | CRDI</a> doing to stay ahead of the risks of #AI for global health? Tune in to hear in their own words: 

rowenaluk.substack.com/p/ai-for-healt… 

Today's episode features a guest appearance from fellow #digitalhealth #podcaster <a href="/DrSam_Oti/">Sam Oti</a> 🎤
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It's been a lot of talk but not a lot of deal flow this past month for #healthtech ventures in Africa. Find out more on the Africa Health Ventures newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/rowenaluk/…

It's been a lot of talk but not a lot of deal flow this past month for #healthtech ventures in Africa. 

Find out more on the Africa Health Ventures newsletter:
open.substack.com/pub/rowenaluk/…
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During the signing ceremony, Alex Rosen, Managing Director of Viebeg Medical, emphasized the importance of this partnership in increasing the capacity of medical institutions to handle more patients and offer a wider range of treatment options, ultimately enhancing the health

During the signing ceremony, Alex Rosen, Managing Director of Viebeg Medical, emphasized the importance of this partnership in increasing the capacity of medical institutions to handle more patients and offer a wider range of treatment options, ultimately enhancing the health
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Today on the #podcast, we sit down with the team running the largest study ever done on how #LLMs like #ChatGPT will - and won't - work for healthcare in Africa. Tobi Olatunji of Intron Voice AI in conversation with Bilal A. Mateen of Digital Square rowenaluk.substack.com/p/how-llms-wil…

Today on the #podcast, we sit down with the team running the largest study ever done on how #LLMs like #ChatGPT will - and won't - work for healthcare in Africa. 

<a href="/tobiolatunji_/">Tobi Olatunji</a>  of <a href="/intronhealth/">Intron Voice AI</a> in conversation with <a href="/bilal_a_mateen/">Bilal A. Mateen</a> of <a href="/DigitalSQR/">Digital Square</a>

rowenaluk.substack.com/p/how-llms-wil…
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Last Friday, Viebeg Medical announced its partnership with Bank of Kigali Official to launch the Medical Equipment Financing (MEF) product across #Rwanda. This is exactly the kind of sustainable African innovation we need more of. ktpress.rw/2024/06/bank-o…

Last Friday, <a href="/ViebegM/">Viebeg Medical</a> announced its partnership with <a href="/BankofKigali/">Bank of Kigali Official</a> to launch the Medical Equipment Financing (MEF) product across #Rwanda. This is exactly the kind of sustainable African innovation we need more of.

ktpress.rw/2024/06/bank-o…
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"Every AI application in the social sector should have guardrails." Does yours? Today we air the final episode in our #AI for Health series with @sid_ravinutala of IDinsight and Debbie Rogers of Reach Digital Health rowenaluk.substack.com/p/ai-tools-tip…

"Every AI application in the social sector should have guardrails." Does yours? 

Today we air the final episode in our #AI for Health series with @sid_ravinutala of <a href="/IDinsight/">IDinsight</a>  and <a href="/rogersdebs/">Debbie Rogers</a> of <a href="/ReachHealth/">Reach Digital Health</a> 

rowenaluk.substack.com/p/ai-tools-tip…
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What's going on with healthcare ventures in Africa? For our 8th newsletter, we bring you: 8 new investments, 8 opportunities, and 8 upcoming events for #healthtech startups in Africa. ...And no, I didn't plan it this way. I just got lucky. rowenaluk.substack.com/p/healthtech-m…

What's going on with healthcare ventures in Africa? For our 8th newsletter, we bring you:

8 new investments, 
8 opportunities, and 
8 upcoming events for #healthtech startups in Africa.  

...And no, I didn't plan it this way. I just got lucky.

rowenaluk.substack.com/p/healthtech-m…
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Investing In Our Future: A Conversation with Rowena Luk, Founder of Africa Health Ventures healthfinancecoalition.org/investing-in-o…

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Thanks for the shoutout, Kee Park ! Such an energizing experience to sit down with like-minded souls at the #HealthFinanceCoalition and Malaria No More, all working towards our shared mission of investing in healthcare in Africa. Martin Edlund Mike Muldoon Amy Lin Innovation & Impact

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August was a tough month for #healthtech startups in Africa. But don’t lose heart. Opportunity exists if you know where to look. In this month's #newsletter, we highlight 12 new opportunities for #healthtech startups in Africa rowenaluk.substack.com/p/africa-healt…

August was a tough month for #healthtech startups in Africa. But don’t lose heart. Opportunity exists if you know where to look. In this month's #newsletter, we highlight 12 new opportunities for #healthtech startups in Africa

rowenaluk.substack.com/p/africa-healt…
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Why we invested in Dot Glasses, alongside Toniic, an industry-leading community of #impactinvestors: Because it's the world's largest unmet disability. Because prescription eyeglasses pay for themselves, even at the bottom of the pyramid. medium.com/why-toniic-mem…

Why we invested in <a href="/DOTGlasses/">Dot Glasses</a>, alongside <a href="/toniicnetwork/">Toniic</a>, an industry-leading community of #impactinvestors: 

Because it's the world's largest unmet disability. 
Because prescription eyeglasses pay for themselves, even at the bottom of the pyramid. 

medium.com/why-toniic-mem…
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I'm headed to #SanFrancisco next week for #SOCAP24. Who should I meet while I'm in town? Africa Health Ventures is a VC fund kickstarting high-impact, scalable healthcare innovations unlocking African markets. If you want to learn more, let's talk!

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After basically ignoring every trend in Python tooling for the last ten years, I've recently become a full-blown uv convert. Here's an unreasonably long write-up on why, and how you can adopt it in your own projects: saaspegasus.com/guides/uv-deep…

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Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would

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I went to PostNet Southern Afr today, South Africa's version of FedEx. Me: I'm here to pick up a package. PostNet: Glad you came by. We've been holding this for you for a while. Me: When did you get it? PostNet: Dec 6. Me: That's not so bad. PostNet: 2022.