Episode 230 - Investing in African Healthcare & Fintech | Dr. Ola Brown

When Dr. Ola Brown's 12-year-old sister needed emergency care in Nigeria, the nearest air ambulance was seven hours away, in South Africa. The family lost her. Dr. Brown made a promise to God that day — and kept it, building an air ambulance service that would go on to serve over 40 African countries and fly more than 5,000 emergency requests a year.Dr. Ola Brown is a British-Nigerian medical doctor turned investor, and the Founder of HealthCap Africa, a venture capital and infrastructure fund investing in healthtech and fintech across the continent. After founding and scaling Flying Doctors Nigeria, she moved into investing — raising her first fund from 12 Nigerian families before launching HealthCap in 2020, with MasterCard anchoring the fund's first close. She now sits at the intersection of medicine, finance, and faith, building a thesis around two sectors she believes are central to Africa's future: healthcare and financial services.Key Topics:The origin story behind Flying Doctors Nigeria — and the personal loss that started itWhy healthcare is one of the most inflation-resistant, counter-cyclical sectors to invest inNigeria's population trajectory and what it means for global investorsPortfolio spotlights: MDaaS Diagnostics and InstantRad's AI-powered radiologyReframing "health and wealth" away from prosperity-gospel connotationsWhat Jesus's healing ministry teaches about business as a tool for the gospelWhy West African entrepreneurial culture may be closer to America's than Europe'sFor investors weighing whether God might be calling them into African markets, this conversation offers something rare: a data-backed macro case paired with a deeply personal, faith-rooted why. Dr. Brown makes the case that comparative advantage, population growth, and Kingdom impact aren't competing priorities — they're the same opportunity.Watch the full episode on YouTube or continue to stream audio on your favorite podcast platform.