Cardo Health expands to Mexico with MIT Media Lab social impact spinoff
Cardo Health is partnering with MIT Media Lab social impact spinoff, Prosperia, to bring digital healthcare to Mexico. Prosperia has developed an integrated AI-based solution to massify early detection and treatment of diabetes and is now looking to expand its services, offering high quality digital healthcare to Mexico’s ~130 million inhabitants.
Prosperia is founded by Alejandro Noriega (CTO), who has a PhD in applied AI from MIT, and Cristina Campero (CEO), a former McKinsey healthcare consultant. They have an impressive management team and are growing rapidly.
More than 10,000 patients have been screened so far, from which Prosperia prevented an estimated up to 4,400 cases of blindness – patients that were found with a pathology and were referred for immediate treatment.
Prosperia is the latest addition to the Cardo Health community, following investments in Colombia, South Africa and Brazil earlier this year. The company has a strong pipeline of future investments and sees great potential in building regional digital health unicorns, enabled by AI.
“What we see is that our local entrepreneurs really appreciate the value of being part of the Cardo community, as we can provide them with global best practices, financing, and tech loved by consumers.” says founder and CEO, Tobias Strålin. “We are really looking forward to scaling up Prosperia together with Cristina and Alejandro.”
Tobias Strålin
Founder and CEO of Cardo Health
Cardo Health is a digital health company with a mission to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of people in emerging markets. We invest in and scale the best early-stage digital health start-up in each of our markets. Bringing funding and a proven business concept, we leverage technology and extensive operational know-how to create local, leading digital health champions. Our co-owned companies in Brazil, South Africa, Colombia and Mexico (including Vibe Saude, Kena, Doc-Doc and Prosperia) provide high-quality, affordable care to over one million registered users. Headquartered in Stockholm, Cardo Health is on an ambitious growth journey to become the leading digital health company in emerging markets.
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