Sangu Delle

Sangu Delle is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of CarePoint, a healthcare group formerly called Africa Health Holdings, and the founder and executive chairman of Golden Palm Investments, a venture capital firm that backs African start-ups.

Early life and education

He was born in Ghana to a Ghanaian father, a medical doctor and civil rights activist, and an Egyptian mother. A full scholarship took him to the Peddie School in New Jersey. He then earned a BA with highest honours from Harvard College, an MBA from Harvard Business School and a law degree from Harvard Law School. He also holds a master's degree in international human rights law from the University of Oxford and a PhD in African studies and anthropology from the University of Birmingham.

CarePoint

CarePoint buys struggling clinics and hospitals and runs them with its own software for records, bookings and payments, a model it calls "phygital". It owns more than 65 facilities in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt, under brands that include Lily Hospitals, Seha Healthcare, Meridian Health Group and Rabito Clinic. The company raised a $10 million bridge round in May 2022 and later an $18 million Series A, and in December 2025 it took Japanese debt funding to grow its micro-clinic network in Egypt.

Investing and writing

Through Golden Palm Investments he has invested in young companies across the continent. His book Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa came out in September 2019 and profiles African founders.

Mental health and TED

He became a TEDGlobal Fellow in 2014. His TED talk on the stigma around mental illness, in which he spoke about his own anxiety, has been viewed more than two million times. He has also given TED talks on gender equality and African finance. In 2022 he set up the Sangu Delle Foundation, which makes grants for education, mental health and job creation.

Recognition and boards

Future Awards Africa named him Young Person of the Year in 2014. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a 2022 Eisenhower Fellow, a 2013 Soros Fellow and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Forbes listed him among Africa's most promising young entrepreneurs. He sits on Harvard University's Board of Overseers and the boards of Ashesi University and Ghana International School.