South Africa’s Envisionit Deep AI gets $1.65M to expand access to medical imaging

The flame had been lit, and in 2019, together with her husband, Terence Naidu, and Andrei Migatchev, Naidoo launched Envisionit Deep AI, a healthtech startup that uses AI to bridge demand for diagnostic imaging. Envisionit Deep AI is now on the path to growth backed by a $1.65 million investment from New GX Ventures SA, a joint venture between New GX Capital, RMB Ventures and GIIG Africa. This platform, Naidoo said, proved beneficial especially during the Covid pandemic, when Envisionit Deep AI unveiled a product that could detect Covid pneumonia from chest X-rays in under 25 milliseconds. This was deployed to drive efficiency at a 700-bed hospital in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, which only had one radiologist. Envisionit Deep AI has recently rolled out a computer-assisted training model (an edtech tool) for medical practitioners that are keen on gaining radiology skills.