He is a staunch believer in new technologies' capacity to positively change the healthcare industry in Africa. His startup develops powerful algorithms to fill the radiology gap on the continent.

Mustapha Zaidan (photo) is a Ghanaian entrepreneur and the co-founder/CEO of Chestify AI Labs, a startup that aims to revolutionize the African healthcare industry.

His startup, founded in 2020, develops artificial intelligence solutions to solve the most critical health problems in Africa. For instance, it launched radiology algorithms that can increase throughput by automating the analysis and reporting of routine chest X-rays, which are still time-consuming with significant backlogs.

One of the algorithms developed by the start-up is “blue dot”. The latter, which was developed from more than 112,114 images, analyzes and highlights anomalies in images with impressive speed and accuracy.

In 2017, Mustapha launched Obaatanpa (meaning great mother in the Ghanaian dialect Akan), a mobile app developed to reduce the mortality rate.  The digital solution gives pregnant and breastfeeding women real-time information about what happens to them during pregnancy and breastfeeding. It also has a menstrual tracker that allows women to know their fertile windows.

In 2019, he also founded FastRx, a healthtech startup that facilitates access to quality medicines.

From October 2015 to August 2021, he Was a software engineer at  Kumasi Hive, an incubator and innovation hub "which provides a platform for rapid prototyping of ideas, supporting local Innovations and promoting entrepreneurship."

Let’s note that his startup, Chestify AI Labs, has been selected to take part in the third cohort of the Africa Startup Initiative Program (ASIP) acceleration program.

Melchior Koba