# Afya Partners

> Afya Partners is a VC fund backing Wellness, Health Care and Pharmaceutical. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Afya Partners is a VC fund focused on Wellness and Health Care. Afya Partners

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wellness | 1 | 100% |
| Health Care | 1 | 100% |
| Pharmaceutical | 1 | 100% |
| Personal Health | 1 | 100% |
| Home Health Care | 1 | 100% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ponea Health | We make it easy to be healthy. Ponea's strategy is to develop a suite of cloud & mobile apps that remove all the friction that Patients of all demographics anywhere in the world face when searching, comparing, booking and paying for right health & well-being care through a transparent & easy to use 3-sided tech platform. Care isdelivered via in-person at health facility or at patient's location, and via tele-consult through the Ponea Health provider & Patient mobile app. All the Healthcare & Wellbeing Professionals on the Ponea health marketplace are clinically vetted, rated and listed on our platform with details of every consult, test & treatment product or service listed for full transparency. All health ecosystem partners (eg. insurance, banks, employers, pharmaceutical drug companies, medical device suppliers, AI triage & diagnosis services, etc..) can easily plug into our marketplace via different partnership models & APIs to serve both patients & healthcare & wellbeing professionals. | $4.3M | Seed | Sep 23, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Seven Seas Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seven-seas-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Shield Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shield-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kuria Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-kuria-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Afya Partners invest in?

Afya Partners invests primarily in Wellness, Health Care and Pharmaceutical startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Afya Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Afya Partners closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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