# Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement > Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement is a VC fund backing Health Care and Apps. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ingelheim Am Rhein, Germany - Total investments: 4 - Last investment: Dec 2025 - Lead investor: 100% - Last updated: Aug 2026 Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement is a VC fund in Ingelheim Am Rhein focused on Health Care and Apps. Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement was launched in 2021 to provide investment and non-financial support, together with complementary partners, and by engaging Boehringer Ingelheim’s employees to help scale up solutions of social businesses to create systemic change. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Health Care | 3 | 75% | | Apps | 1 | 25% | | Retail | 1 | 25% | | Women's | 1 | 25% | | Hospital | 1 | 25% | 12 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 50% | | Seed | 1 | 25% | | Grant | 1 | 25% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Ghana | 1 | 25% | | Kenya | 1 | 25% | | Tanzania | 1 | 25% | | Singapore | 1 | 25% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Dawa Mkononi | We are a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving access to medicine in East & Central Africa. We mainly focus on data-driven healthcare solutions that increase access and quality of information as well as facilitate safe, effective, and sustainable pharmaceutical supply chains across the industry. Our mission is to increase access tohigh-quality medicines, services, and information via technology solutions that improve affordability, health outcomes, and ease of use. | | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 | | | reach52 | reach52 is a Singapore-HQ'ed social enterprise that provides access to healthcare to rural communities through an offline-first mobile application. By building an ecosystem of partners across the pharmaceutical, medtech, consumer health and insurance space, reach52 makes available and affordable essential services (such as screening anddisease awareness) and health products in these underserved markets. On the other end, reach52 works with local implementation partners to grow user base and presence in these hard-to-reach markets and train local community members to collect data, run the health services and manage the marketplace for the residents, while providing them with livelihood opportunities. reach52 is driving UN SDG 3, 5 and 8 in its work and aims to connect 250 million people globally to healthcare by 2030, in line with UHC commitments. | | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 16, 2025 | | | Kasha | Kasha is an innovative e-commerce platform based in East Africa, built for women's health, personal care, and beauty products accessibility within urban and rural areas. Kasha offers a comprehensive integrated basket of products that promotes health at all stages of life, including newborn child health, maternal health, menstrual hygiene,family planning, sexual and reproductive health, non-communicable diseases (e.g., hypertension and diabetes), and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. | | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 16, 2025 | | | Cowtribe | Cowtribe is pioneering cutting edge logistics systems to deliver animal vaccines and other livestock services to last mile farmers in Africa. they strive to dramatically increase animal vaccination rates in underserved communities to help farmers lose less of their precious animals. | | Grant | Oct 05, 2022 | | 4 of 4 investments shown. ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund - [Almi Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almi-invest) — VC Fund - [Korea Credit Guarantee Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-credit-guarantee-fund) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Launch Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-africa) — VC Fund - [Raba Partnership](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rabba-capital) — VC Fund - [Women Entrepreneurship for Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/women-entrepreneurship-for-africa) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Health Care Investors in Tanzania](https://shizune.co/investors/health-care-investors-tanzania) ## FAQ ### What does Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement invest in? Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement invests primarily in Health Care, Apps and Retail startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ghana. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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? 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