Daisy Isiaho was born and raised in Kenya to parents who were both medical doctors, and studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Multimedia University of Kenya, one of only eleven women in a class of roughly ninety. Though her parents hoped she would pursue medicine, she was determined to follow a mathematics-focused path instead, developing an early interest in applications that could meaningfully improve people's lives.
In 2020, during the early uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, Isiaho joined Nigerian-born entrepreneur Ikechukwu Anoke to help build Zuri Health, a telemedicine platform connecting patients across Sub-Saharan Africa with doctors via mobile app, website, WhatsApp bot and SMS service. The company's name came from Anoke's daughter, born in 2012 in circumstances that nearly proved fatal due to the difficulty of quickly finding a specialist — an experience that shaped the founders' determination to close gaps in African healthcare access.
Isiaho initially served on Zuri Health's board before joining full-time as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer in 2022. Under the founding team, later joined by Titilola Olaolu-Hassan, Zuri Health expanded to operate across nine African countries — Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Senegal, Cameroon and South Africa — and was named Sankalp Africa's Company of the Year in 2022.
- Co-founded Zuri Health, now operating across nine African countries
- Helped raise $1.3 million in funding for Zuri Health across five rounds
- Zuri Health named Sankalp Africa's 2022 Company of the Year
- One of only eleven women in a Multimedia University computer science class of ninety
- Personal experience can drive a founding mission.. The company's origin traces directly to a co-founder's own family health emergency.
- Board experience can be a stepping stone to full commitment.. Isiaho served on Zuri Health's board before formally joining as a full-time co-founder.
- Being outnumbered doesn't have to be discouraging.. As one of few women in her university computing class, she used the challenge as motivation rather than a deterrent.