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LyfPlus
Techstars '24Dar es Salaam, TZ · Founded 2022 · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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LyfPlus provides digital health solutions for hospitals, helping them optimize operations and improve service quality by modernizing paper-based health infrastructure.
Also known as LyfPlus Limited
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026LyfPlus is a Tanzanian health technology company, founded in 2022 and headquartered in Dar es Salaam, that digitises the operations of local health facilities. Its platform enables clinics and hospitals to offer remote consultations so that patients in remote areas or with limited mobility can avoid long and costly travel. Users schedule appointments online, speak with a health professional by video conference and receive digital prescriptions directly through the application.
Beyond teleconsultation, the platform includes a pharmaceutical management module through which hospitals generate secure electronic prescriptions, allowing patients to order medicines and have them delivered at home. For practitioners, LyfPlus centralises medical history in a single shared patient record intended to support continuity of care and operational efficiency for medical teams. A real-time scheduling and queue-management system addresses overcrowded waiting rooms. The company positions its offering as bringing physician consultation, diagnosis and pharmacy services together in one platform.
Founding story
LyfPlus was founded in 2022. Co-founder and medical director Ali Khatau is a Tanzanian physician and serial entrepreneur who graduated in medicine from Hubert Kairuki Memorial University in Tanzania in 2019 and later completed a master's in diabetes at the University of Wales and a master's in international public health at Liverpool John Moores University in 2025. He interned at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam and joined Apollo Medical Centre in Dar es Salaam in 2021, where he worked as a general practitioner and administrator until 2024 and chaired the hospital management team between 2022 and 2023.
Business model
LyfPlus supplies software to clinics and hospitals that lets them offer remote consultations, issue secure electronic prescriptions, maintain shared patient records and manage appointment scheduling, while patients use the platform to book appointments, consult clinicians by video, receive digital prescriptions and order medicines for home delivery.
Traction
The company was listed as being at beta stage, with a beta version developed and in testing with a private set of users.
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Market position
LyfPlus positions itself around Tanzania's base of health professionals and health facilities, aiming to transform health service provision in the country.
LyfPlus combines physician consultation, diagnosis and pharmacy access within a single platform, pairing teleconsultation with electronic prescribing, medicine delivery, a shared patient record and real-time queue management for health facilities.
Technology
A web and mobile application providing online appointment scheduling, video-conference consultations, digital and secure electronic prescriptions, a pharmaceutical management module supporting medicine ordering and home delivery, a unified shared patient medical record, and real-time scheduling for queue management.
Go-to-market
Clinics, hospitals and other health facilities in Tanzania, together with their patients, including those in remote areas or with limited mobility.
Geography
The company is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and targets Tanzanian health professionals and facilities.
History
The platform was founded in 2022 and is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Co-founder Ali Khatau's earlier ventures include DarEquip, a medical equipment supplier, and ElimuTanzania, a secondary-school education platform, both launched in 2016, and the SukariCare Foundation, a diabetes-focused organisation he founded in 2023 and led until February 2026. As of its Seedstars listing, the company was at beta stage, with the product in testing with a private set of users.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does LyfPlus do?
- Tanzanian health-tech platform giving clinics and hospitals teleconsultation, e-prescribing, shared patient records and queue management.
- Who are LyfPlus's investors?
- LyfPlus's investors include Techstars.
- Where is LyfPlus headquartered?
- LyfPlus is headquartered in Dar es Salaam, TZ.