Hi, I'm Emilian Popa

I am on a mission to enable people to live healthier and longer lives, delivered via breakthrough technologies and often at a fraction of what treatments and diagnostics cost today.

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My Global Impact

● I’m an Africa focussed healthcare entrepreneur, investor and visionary with a mission to deliver affordable healthcare diagnostics to 1 billion people.

● Founder and CEO of Ilara Health, a company that distributes low-cost, AI-powered diagnostic devices to primary care doctors in peri-urban and rural clinics in Kenya and South Africa.

● Investor in Expand Health, a holistic health improvement and recovery facility, launching in Cape Town and Copenhagen.

● 10+ years of successful launching, fund raising, growing, and exiting more than 20 technology ventures in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Russia.

Areas of Impact

Africa

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Kenya

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South Africa

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Cape Town

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Copenhagen

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Asia

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Russia

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Latest Posts

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Globally, health care will evolve one day to become a monitoring system, empowered by technology, that can help with disease prevention and early detection, as well as data-driven treatment. This is an exciting future: the lower cost and ease of use will democratise better health outcomes and care will converge to the same quality across the globe. 

Globally, health care will evolve one day to become a monitoring system, empowered by technology, that can help with disease prevention and early detection, as well as data-driven treatment. This is an exciting future: the lower cost and ease of use will democratise better health outcomes and care will converge to the same quality across the globe. 

Key Investments

Ilara health

Ilara Health equips small, peri-urban healthcare providers with life-saving and essential diagnostic tools to improve the quality of medical care across sub-Saharan Africa. Through smart financing options, Ilara Health connects these small businesses to revenue generating diagnostic assets that enable them to both develop their business and improve the quality of care they provide to their patients.

eXPAND HEALTH

Expand Health is a health optimisation and longevity center. Covering every aspect of holistic health – movement, recovery, nutrition, the mind and body – and integrated with innovative science and technology, the focus is on proactive, whole body health. Through a personalised and data driven approach, we aim to put the control back into the hands of the patient — whether it’s starting a meditation practice, sleeping better, tackling a chronic health condition or enhancing recovery.

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