Anees Health Secures Seed Funding to Revolutionise Egypt’s Geriatric Care Model

Egypt-based Anees Health has closed a seed funding round, though the company did not disclose the size of the investment. The fresh capital is set to back the expansion of its care model, which is built around managing the full patient journey, from the first contact through to a stable condition.

Founded in 2025, Anees Health is betting on a healthcare model that blends technology with up-to-date medical protocols and practices. The idea is not only to treat age-related conditions, but also to help prevent them earlier and preserve people’s functional ability and quality of life as they grow older. In a region where families often end up juggling care arrangements on their own, that feels quite spot on. I’ve seen, time and again around the MENA startup scene, how founders make headway when they tackle the messy coordination problem rather than just adding one more service on top.

That, in a nutshell, is the gap Anees Health wants to fill. Medical services themselves are not exactly missing: patients can reach doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, lab testing and medication providers. The real issue begins when someone needs several of these services at once and nobody is responsible for tying them together into one clear, continuous plan. It can become a bit of a faff for families, especially when the patient is older or living with a chronic condition.

The timing matters too. Egypt’s demographic shift is pushing this issue further into the open. According to the country’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, the number of people aged over 60 reached around 9.8 million in 2025, equal to 9.1% of the population, up from 9.3 million in 2024.

Dr Mahmoud Darwish, co-founder and chief executive of Anees Health, said families do not simply need a provider that can arrange a doctor’s visit, but one that takes responsibility for the entire journey. He said the company is building a system that gathers different services around the patient under a single plan and stays with them from the initial assessment until the case is stabilised, instead of leaving relatives to coordinate everything by themselves.

At the centre of the company’s clinical model is geriatric medicine, supported by family medicine to coordinate the rest of the required specialties and services. Its programmes are aimed at patients who need longer-term follow-up, particularly older adults, people with chronic diseases, and those recovering through rehabilitation. Anees Health is also developing longevity-focused programmes designed to maintain physical and cognitive function and improve quality of life with age.

Dr Ahmed Oraby, co-founder and chief strategy and growth officer, said medication, movement, nutrition and cognition cannot be treated as separate needs in geriatric and longevity care. He said the company’s strategy is based on looking at the whole case, understanding how one decision affects the rest of the care plan, and turning that understanding into an integrated model that can scale without compromising quality.

And believe it or not, the company says its role does not stop once a home visit or consultation ends. The team continues monitoring the patient’s condition, adjusts the plan when needed, coordinates referrals to partner hospitals, and then resumes follow-up after discharge. This process continues until the goals of the care plan are reached or the patient moves into a more stable follow-up stage.

Anees Health operates on what it describes as a single accountable team model. A dedicated doctor oversees each patient’s case and care plan, working alongside a multidisciplinary team that includes nursing, physiotherapy and pharmacy support, with lab tests and imaging coordinated when required. Underpinning this is a unified electronic health record developed in-house and built on the global HL7 FHIR standard for exchanging health information. That detail may sound technical, well... I mean, but it matters, especially when families are spread across borders and need updates in both Arabic and English without losing the thread.

The company said it has already provided care to patients linked to countries across four continents, including Cairo-based residents whose families manage their care from abroad. Since launching in 2025, it has delivered more than 1,000 medical and care services. Growth so far has come mainly through patient and family recommendations and direct referrals, while roughly 70% of patients continue into extended care plans after their first visit. I reckon that continuity figure is one of the more telling metrics here; in healthcare, trust is often harder to build than trafic.

Alongside the funding round, entrepreneur Ibrahim Anwar is joining the company as an adviser. Anwar brings more than 15 years of business development experience and has co-founded six companies, taking one of them through to exit. He said what caught his attention was that the team is tackling the problem at its root rather than just its surface. Building a system that takes over the whole care journey, he said, is significantly harder than creating a marketplace of service providers, but it offers stronger foundations for trust and sustainable growth.

The new funding will be used to expand the company’s geriatric care and care coordination teams, strengthen its operational and clinical infrastructure, widen coverage across Greater Cairo, and deepen coordination with partner hospitals after patients are discharged. Anees Health is targeting operational capacity of more than 20,000 visits by 2027, while keeping its model of assigning one responsible doctor to every patient under a unified care plan. On the flip side, scaling that kind of hands-on care is never easy. Still, for readers at Arageek who follow startups trying to fix real-world bottlenecks, this is one to watch.

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