Dakar-based Eyone Medical has secured an additional 1 billion CFA francs, about $1.7 million, from Oyass Capital, the investment arm backed by FONSIS.
Dakar-based Eyone Medical has secured an additional 1 billion CFA francs, about $1.7 million, from Oyass Capital, the investment arm backed by FONSIS.
The latest cheque brings Oyass Capital’s total backing of the healthtech startup to roughly 1.7 billion CFA francs, close to $3 million.
The funding is tied directly to the rollout of Senegal’s Shared Single Patient Record, known locally as DPUP, a government-led effort to centralize and digitize medical data nationwide.
Rather than funding growth for its own sake, the capital anchors Eyone within a state infrastructure project that could redefine how healthcare data flows across the country.
Founded in 2015 by Henri Ousmane Gueye and John Diatta, Eyone builds interoperable software that enables hospitals and clinics to access patient records in real time. In much of Francophone Africa, medical files still move physically with patients.
Paper folders shift from one facility to another, leading to repeated lab tests, incomplete diagnoses, and delays caused by manual data entry. The cost is borne by both patients and providers.
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Eyone’s platform replaces that paper trail with a unified digital profile accessible to authorized practitioners. The company reports more than 60 clients, including Sonatel, which previously invested $1 million through its Venture Innovation Fund.
That early corporate backing signaled private-sector belief in digital health infrastructure before sovereign capital entered the picture.
Oyass Capital, launched in 2024 with a 52 billion CFA franc mandate, was designed to finance companies caught between microfinance and commercial bank lending.
Eyone fits squarely within that bracket: revenue-generating, nationally relevant, and operating in a sector aligned with public policy priorities.
Under Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, digital transformation of public services, particularly healthcare, has moved higher on the agenda as a lever to reduce costs and extend care to underserved regions.
The transaction shows a shift in how parts of Francophone Africa are financing tech infrastructure. Rather than relying solely on foreign venture capital, governments are deploying sovereign-backed vehicles to build domestic champions in sectors considered strategic. Healthtech, fintech infrastructure, and agritech are increasingly framed as public goods with commercial upside.
For Eyone, the opportunity is scale anchored in policy. For Senegal, the bet is that local software firms can underpin national systems once dominated by imported solutions.
If the DPUP rollout succeeds, it may serve as a template for other West African states seeking to modernize healthcare without surrendering control of core data infrastructure to external providers.
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