PHNOM PENH, November, 15, 2022 – In the last three months with Lafiya Innovators program,  the 10 health-related startup teams have been through an intensive incubation period with a series of masterclasses and 1-1 mentoring sessions with the program’s dedicated mentor, Health Expert, and Finance Expert. 

Lately, this November, the 10 teams pitched before the public audiences and the judges on their startup and its positive impact on Cambodia’s health sector. As a result, 3 startups were selected to represent Cambodia to join Lafiya Immersion Week in Switzerland and awarded a 10,000CHF cash prize to strengthen their operations. 

The Winning/selected startup are:

Three winning teams, MeetDcotor, Green Lady, and  Agri House

1. Meet Doctor: helps people with medical conditions to get fast and easy access to highly qualified doctors. 
2. Green Lady Cambodia: provides safer menstrual product choices, educates young people on Sexual and Reproductive Health topics and facilitates menstruation classrooms with sewing workshops for girls and women in Cambodia.
3. Agri House: produces and sells cricket-enhanced, nutritionally balanced snacks for Cambodia’s primary school-aged youth market.

Watch the Recorded Livestream of their pitching event here.

Hok Sovanvotey, founder of Green Lady Cambodia. 

“From this program, I can access the necessary tools for my growth in the entrepreneurship journey. I appreciate the one-on-one mentorship plus coaching that the Impact Hub team has designed and put together attentively to fit the nature of the startup. I appreciate all the mentors, coaches, and teams that put efforts into this program to promote and inspire more happy and balanced entrepreneurs. 

At first, I didn’t expect to win the competition or even think about pursuing the opportunity initially because of the fear of “dreaming big”. (But) what pushes me forward through this program is, I believe, the need to heal the gender role inequality in society. 

Pitching to the public pushed my team and me to expose more to the public and to tell them about what I am currently doing to bring more awareness on Sexual and Reproductive Health and invite them to think about what else can help solve the problem (in this area).

I am happy and excited to be selected as Cambodia’s representative. I will try to absorb as much as possible from my experiences in Switzerland. And improve what I am currently doing with my startup to bring more positive impact to the Sexual and Reproductive Health sector in Cambodia.” – Hok Sovanvotey, founder of Green Lady Cambodia.

 Socheat Chi – Country Director of PSI Cambodia and Lafiya Innovators 2022 Judge

“I am glad and inspired to be part of the final pitch, excited to see many innovations and enthusiasm of the young innovative entrepreneur. This is really a good program for the young generation, and I hope Impact Hub can host other programs like this in the future.” – Socheat Chi – Country Director of PSI Cambodia and Lafiya Innovators 2022 Judge.

About “Lafiya Innovators”

“Lafiya Innovators” is a health incubation program that supports and accelerates early operational startups focused on health-related thematics. In addition, the program seeks to strengthen the local health ecosystem and health entrepreneurship capacity by bringing together and engaging a strong community of health stakeholders, both locally and globally.

Highlighted picture of the program activities in the past 3 month

These are Lafiya Innovators 2022 top 10 teams:

• Green Lady: provides safer menstrual product choices, educates young people on SRHR topics, and facilitates menstruation classrooms with sewing workshops for girls and women in Cambodia.
• Alkagizer: the blend of the freshest organic vegetables, packed with essential vitamins and minerals, high in dietary fiber, and very low in calories and carbs.
• Phall Changrit: is innovating the cricket value chain, from producing low-cost cricket feed to highly nutritive cricket-based products and bio-fertilizer from frass.
•   Agri House: produces and sells cricket-enhanced, nutritionally balanced snacks for Cambodia’s primary school-aged youth market.
• Meet Doctor: helps people with medical conditions to get fast and easy access to highly qualified doctors.  
• CancerCo: is a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict/detect cancer symptoms as early as possible.
• Hopsicare: is a health care service that serves the elderly or people with disability who need nursing support at home or the hospital. 
• Much Mobile Health Care: is a professional home health care service provider in Cambodia. 
• Ektes Clinic: aims to support and increase the quality of the health care service provided to women, especially mothers. 
• Sursdey Yoga: offer indoor and outdoor yoga classes for employees and kids for well-being.

This program is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Foundation Botnar and organized by Impact Hub Phnom Penh and Impact Hub Basel.

Read more about the program here

For more information: 

Tang Sivgech, Program Manager at Impact Hub Phnom Penh | 017 320 072 sivgech.tang@impacthub.net