PROJECT

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Summary of Collaboration or Co-Development Project

Project Number

48598

Date SCCP Disclosed

Sep 27, 2023

Country

Senegal

Region

Africa

Last Updated Date

Oct 25, 2025

Industry

other

Sector

other

Department

CDFUP - Disruptive Technologies and Funds/Upstream - DT

Project Description

IFC is partnering with Kera Health Platforms Inc (Kera, or the Company) to support the development of a healthtech solution for telemedicine and electronic health records (EHRs) in Senegal. Kera is a pre-seed healthtech company headquartered in Dakar, with a mission to connect and transform the healthcare ecosystem. Kera uses artificial intelligence by aggregating siloed data points in the healthcare ecosystem, including EHRs, lab results, pharmacy data, and patient-reported outcomes to deliver actionable insights to medical staff. This collaboration will help support a product feasibility assessment by evaluating Kera’s ability to further develop its product offering to attract and effectively meet the needs of customers with its developing EHR solution and conducting due diligence in the market to test, further develop and evaluate market fit with customers.

E & S Information

Under the project, the IFC team will guide the client in gaining a good understanding of IFC's Performance Standards. The project will have no adverse social impacts and will cause minimal environmental impact manageable by standard methods. Therefore, no further environmental or social analysis is required under this Upstream stage.