Social Impact EdTech | Healthcare Focussed | Sub-Saharan Africa

Upskilling 3 Million Mid-Stream Health Workers

Bee Skilled is an affordable, accredited professional development marketplace for health workers in Sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging countries, priced at one-tenth of competitors to professionalise the workers who keep the system running.

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7,000
Members across 100+ countries
17%
B2C conversion by campaign — well above industry norm
8.5/10
Average learner satisfaction score
50+
African countries with certified professionals

"Quality professional development should never be a privilege. Our mission is to put world-class learning in the hands of every health worker in emerging economies."

01 — Our Focus

Digital marketplace for the forgotten workforce

Health systems across emerging economies are failing not because of lack of desire, but because of a severe lack of highly skilled professionals.

Cross-functional skills in supply chain, regulatory, data management, program management and leadership are systematically absent and existing solutions cost 10× what health workers can afford.

Bee Skilled is a community-led, accredited eLearning marketplace that brings skills-based professional development to the frontline. We operate at the intersection of global public health and international development, targeting mid-stream health systems management cadres where the skills gap is most acute.

Founded in 2020 in India and registered in the UK in 2025, we have spent five years proving the model, with thousands of organic members, strong conversion rates, national and international accreditations for our eLearning programs.

Supply Chain Management Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs Pharmacovigilance Programme Management Leadership & Management AI Use in Healthcare Peer-Learning Models
$19.7B
African e-learning market by 2034

CAGR of 19.2% — 2.3× the global digital healthcare education average. The health professional segment is less than 10% penetrated by digital platforms: as close to a greenfield opportunity as a regulated market ever produces.

Our key differentiator

Priced at 1/10th of competitors, with international accreditation, French and English delivery, and a peer-learning community model that makes retention of users easier.

02 — The founder

Led by someone who has lived the problem

15 years working at the intersection of global health and learning & development across four continents.

Sanjay Saha
Sanjay Saha
Founder & CEO — Bee Skilled

From a small town in Northern India to advising governments and UN agencies across Sub-Saharan Africa — Sanjay's career has been defined by a conviction that knowledge should be accessible to everyone.

  • 15+ years in L&D, consulting and advisory across public health in LMICs
  • Worked with governments, UN agencies and multilateral partners across Africa, Asia and Europe
  • Expert in health system strengthening, eLearning for impact and community-led learning models
  • EMBA candidate, Warwick Business School — building institutional and commercial capability
  • Founded Bee Skilled in 2020 in India; registered in UK in 2025 for scale-up
Leadership team — combined experience
60+ yrs

Sanjay Saha (Founder), Pierre de Vasson (Director of Supply Chain, 22+ yrs in pharma supply chain, Asia/Africa/Eastern Europe) and Dr. Andrew Brown (Director of Education, 30+ yrs, senior lecturer at University of Canberra).

Select institutional partnerships
QUAMED Belgium EPN Kenya ACAME Burkina Faso InSupply Health Kenya

6,000+ professionals across 70 countries via partner platform projects.

03 — Traction

Growth that investors can track

Organic, founder-led growth proving real demand, before a single pound of institutional investment.

7,000
Total platform members from 100+ countries
380K+
Platform page views in 2025
17%
B2C conversion rate — significantly above industry norm
8.5/10
Average learner satisfaction score
10
eLearning courses launched across focus areas
200K+
Hours of CPD materials accessed on the platform
1,000+
Professionals completed Skills Assessment
6
International + national accreditations
04 — Market opportunity

A greenfield market at the right moment

The collapse of USAID and shifts in donor funding have created an urgent, unfunded gap, precisely where Bee Skilled is built to operate.

TAM — Total Addressable Market
Health professionals in emerging economies needing CPD support by 2030
~20M
SAM — Serviceable Addressable Market
Sub-Saharan Africa, digitally reachable, skills and focus aligned to our areas
~3M
SOM — Our target by 2030
Across priority countries via B2C + B2B
400K
11–12 Mn
Health workers required in Africa by 2030 with appropriate professional skills — WHO.
19.2%
CAGR of the African e-learning market — projected to reach $19.7 billion by 2034. 2.3× the global digital healthcare education average.
<10%
Digital platform penetration of health professional CPD in Africa. As close to a greenfield opportunity as a regulated market ever produces.
05 — 2030 targets

Where we are going

Bee Skilled Platform by 2030
400,000+ members · Up to 50,000 paid members · Career Development Pathways on four thematic areas · Full Marketplace Tech Stack
  • 200+ hours of CPD content made available directly by Bee Skilled
  • 100+ hours of CPD credentials from universities, national institutions and NGOs hosted on the marketplace
  • Full tech stack supporting B2C and B2B marketplace models, enabling other institutions to host courses
  • Linked to CPD systems, certifications and career pathways
  • Integrate AI into back-end processes and as a user companion
  • Career support programme for early career professionals with expert-led coaching
06 — Connect

Ready to build this together?

We are planning to raise a seed round of £300,000–£600,000 by end of 2026 to fund our scale-up, technology build and team. If you believe in affordable, accessible healthcare education as a vehicle for systems change — let's talk.

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Email info@beeskilled.com
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Website www.beeskilled.com
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LinkedIn — Sanjay Saha linkedin.com/in/sahasanjay
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Registered United Kingdom and India
Current fundraise
£300K – £600K
Seed round to enable scale-up of operations across Sub-Saharan Africa and solidify our position in this greenfield market before the window closes.
  • Technology: full marketplace platform development
  • Content: 200+ hours of accredited CPD content
  • Team: key hires in content and tech engineering, marketing
  • Market access: conferences, council partnerships and digital acquisition
  • Deep AI capability: course authoring and personalisation tools in the back end and front end user companion