Launch Africa has made an undisclosed investment to help Ollie Health, a South African provider of mental health credits, expand. In 20 countries, the company wants to establish 100,000 credits for mental health.

Through an app, Ollie Health, which was founded in 2020 by Marc Gregory, gives users access to a variety of medical specialists throughout the globe, such as dentists, family doctors, chiropractors, psychologists, and more. Users can make appointments, get reminders for them, and access tailored video links for online consultations, among other things. Users have the option to pick whether they want to use a cash-direct service and can filter through the many practitioners that are offered through their medical aid scheme.

Charles Rapulu Udoh

Charles Rapulu Udoh is a Lagos-based lawyer, who has several years of experience working in Africa’s burgeoning tech startup industry. He has closed multi-million dollar deals bordering on venture capital, private equity, intellectual property (trademark, patent or design, etc.), mergers and acquisitions, in countries such as in the Delaware, New York, UK, Singapore, British Virgin Islands, South Africa, Nigeria etc. He’s also a corporate governance and cross-border data privacy and tax expert. 
As an award-winning writer and researcher, he is passionate about telling the African startup story, and is one of the continent’s pioneers in this regard