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Anees Health, a Cairo-based healthcare startup offering integrated home medical services including geriatrics, physiotherapy and nursing through organised in‑home treatment programmes, has closed a Seed funding round for an undisclosed amount.
While the company did not disclose the investors in the Seed round, it plans to use the capital to scale up a model that takes ownership of a patient’s entire care journey rather than just individual medical visits.
“Families need more than a provider that arranges a medical visit. They need someone to take responsibility for the entire journey. We are building a system that brings different services together around the patient under one care plan, supporting them from the initial assessment until their condition stabilises, instead of leaving families to coordinate care on their own,” said Dr. Mahmoud Darwish, co-founder and CEO of Anees Health.
Founded in 2025 by Darwish and Dr. Ahmed Oraby and headquartered in New Cairo’s Fifth Settlement, Anees Health is a clinician-led home healthcare provider with doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and lab staff operating as one coordinated team on a single medical record from a patient’s first call through their final visit. It runs multidisciplinary care teams and relies on an in-house electronic health record built on the HL7 FHIR global data-exchange standard.
Anees Health says it has already delivered more than 1,000 medical and care services and is now targeting an operational capacity of over 20,000 visits in 2027. It has treated patients from countries across four continents, including Cairo residents and relatives abroad managing a family member’s care, which led to the company’s bilingual Arabic-English documentation. It says around 70% of patients continue on extended care plans after their first visit, a continuity that has become the most important performance indicator.
It further argues that the company is not fixing a shortage of medical providers but the lack of a single team coordinating various medical needs of a patient. Anees Health’s model puts geriatric medicine at the centre, backed by family medicine to coordinate other specialties, and serves people who need extended follow-up, including older adults, patients managing chronic illness, and those recovering from surgery or undergoing rehabilitation.
It also runs longevity programmes aimed at preserving physical and cognitive function, an opportunity arising from the fact that Egypt’s population aged 60 and over reached 9.8 million in 2025, up from 9.3 million in 2024, according to Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS).
“In geriatric medicine and longevity care, medication, movement, nutrition and cognition cannot be treated as separate needs. Our strategy is to see the whole patient, understand how each decision affects the rest of the care plan, and turn that understanding into an integrated model that can scale while maintaining quality of care,” said Dr. Ahmed Oraby, co-founder and Chief Strategy and Growth Officer of Anees Health.
Alongside the funding, the company announced that entrepreneur Ebrahem Anwar, who co-founded six companies over more than 15 years in business development, leading one to an exit, is joining as a strategic advisor.
Anees Health said it intends to use the new capital to expand its geriatric medicine and care-coordination teams, building out its operational and clinical infrastructure, extending coverage across Greater Cairo, and deepening post-discharge coordination with partner hospitals. The goal, the company said, is to sustain a model in which a single physician oversees each patient’s care under one unified plan even as visit volumes scale toward 20,000 in 2027.
