The University of Benin, UNIBEN), Edo State have chosen as finalists for the student venture Capital grant (SVCG) of the federal government.
The initiative by UpCare is designed to significantly reduce waiting times, improve access to care, and ensure that critical health information can be retrieved within seconds, especially in emergency situations.
The UpCare team is led by Francis Nwabueze. Others are Ayebamiebi Yousuo, Osahon Onariase, and Daniel Itegboje.
Introduced in November 2025 in collaboration with the Bank of Industry (BoI), the scheme aims to provide up to N50 million in non-dilutive funding to student-led ventures that have reached the commercialisation stage.
The students are among the 65 student innovators from a total of 30,639 applicants across 404 tertiary institutions nationwide have advanced to the final stage by the Nigerian government, which described the venture capital grant initiative as a deliberate investment in the next generation of innovators and job creators.
The quartet, currently in their 6th year in medical school, were selected for developing UpCare, an innovative platform designed to create a patient-owned, decentralised digital health diary library for Nigerians, according to the CableNews.
The innovation enables patients to own a secure digital health identity, allowing their medical history to be continuously updated across different healthcare 
facilities.
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