Totohealth

What Totohealth does

Totohealth is a Kenya-based, for-profit mobile health technology company founded in 2014, headquartered in Nairobi. The company's stated mission is to improve maternal and child health indicators among vulnerable populations using mobile technology. Its two co-founders, Felix Kimaru and Joseph Murgor, have led the organization since inception.

The company's product platform appears to leverage mobile-based tools (likely SMS or USSD given the East African market context and Safaricom partnership) to deliver maternal and child health services to underserved populations. However, substantive product, technology, and feature details are not available in the source data — the company website (totohealth.org) currently displays only a loading/verification page with no functional content. No pricing model, revenue mechanism, customer segmentation, or technical architecture details are disclosed.

Totohealth has raised a total of approximately $1,000,000 in disclosed funding, primarily through a December 2016 round led by Safaricom and StreamS Capital, supplemented by two Spring Accelerator grants (2015, 2017). The organization operates with 1-10 employees as of the most recent data. No revenue figures, customer counts, or commercialization details have been disclosed.

Name

Totohealth

Website

https://totohealth.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Totohealth is a Nairobi-based mobile health startup founded in 2014 that uses mobile technology to improve maternal and child health outcomes among vulnerable populations in Kenya. It operates with 1-10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Maternal and Child Health (Digital Health / mHealth)

NAICS

Social Assistance (624), Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Pregnancy & Prenatal Care Telehealth (OB tele-visits, prenatal monitoring) (HLALAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Postpartum & Newborn Care Telehealth (postpartum check-ins, newborn guidance) (HLALAHAD)

Keywords

• Maternal health monitoring
• Child health tracking
• Mobile health platform
• Pregnancy SMS alerts
• Maternal child healthcare

Headquarters

HQ city

Nairobi

HQ country

Kenya

HQ region

Africa

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Totohealth uses mobile technology to improve maternal and child health indicators among vulnerable populations. The company delivers health information, pregnancy milestone reminders, and child development monitoring via mobile phones (notably SMS), targeting expecting mothers and caregivers of young children. Its core offering is an mHealth service that translates health knowledge and clinical milestones into timed mobile alerts and educational messages aimed at reducing maternal and infant mortality.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Totohealth Maternal & Child Health Mobile Service Totohealth's core mobile-based maternal and child health service delivers stage-appropriate health information, pregnancy milestone alerts, and child development reminders to pregnant women, new mothers, and caregivers of young children in vulnerable Kenyan communities, primarily via SMS and mobile channels.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• M-TIBA: Kenya-based mobile health wallet and care-navigation platform connecting low-income users to healthcare services. Same geography, same mobile-first delivery model, and overlapping target population of underserved families.
• Mahmee: US-based maternal and infant health platform connecting new parents with care providers via app, telehealth, and in-home visits. Comparable maternal/child health focus and mobile delivery model, though operating in a high-income market.
• Noora Health: Trains new mothers and family caregivers via mobile and in-hospital programs to improve maternal and newborn outcomes in South Asia and Africa. Comparable mobile-based maternal health model in emerging markets.
• Living Goods: Operates a community health worker network across East Africa focused on maternal and child health, distributing health products and digital tools door-to-door. Overlapping mission and target demographic in Kenya and Uganda.
• Medic (formerly Medic Mobile): Builds mobile tools for community health workers, with a strong focus on maternal, newborn, and child health in low-resource settings across Africa and Asia. Directly comparable in mission, delivery channel (mobile/SMS), and target user.
• Bloomlife: Combines connected prenatal monitoring wearables with a maternal health data platform for risk detection. Comparable maternal health focus with a digital/mobile delivery layer, though hardware-centric.

Regional players

• Babyl Rwanda: Mobile telehealth and SMS-based health service in Rwanda offering consultations, lab requests, and prescriptions via phone. Same mobile health delivery paradigm and East African context, though a different national market.

Broad incumbents

• Dimagi: Developer of CommCare, one of the most widely deployed mobile data collection and service-delivery platforms used in maternal and child health programs globally. Competes for the same digital health infrastructure spend as Totohealth.
• Zipline: Drone-delivered medical logistics operating in Rwanda, Ghana, and other African countries. Not a direct competitor in maternal telehealth, but part of the same African digital health ecosystem and competes for similar impact-investor and government capital.

Emerging players

• Ilara Health: Kenya-based health-tech company providing point-of-care diagnostic tools and digital health services to clinics serving low-income patients. Same geography and target clinic/provider network, though focused on diagnostics rather than maternal telehealth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/totohealth
• Facebookfacebook.com/totohealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/toto-health

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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