Temie Giwa-Tubosun
Nigerian health entrepreneur who founded LifeBank, a technology and logistics network that delivers blood, oxygen, vaccines, and critical medical supplies to hospitals in minutes.
Nigeria loses thousands of mothers and children each year because hospitals cannot get blood or oxygen fast enough. The tragedy is not only scarcity. It is delay.
In 2016, Temie Giwa-Tubosun transformed that delay into a solvable logistics problem. She founded LifeBank to link hospitals to nearby blood banks, labs, and oxygen plants through a digital platform and a rapid delivery fleet.
Her work shows that in healthcare, speed is not a feature. It is survival.
Key Numbers
LifeBank impact and scale, verified through 2025.
Sources: Cartier Women’s Initiative fellow profile (2025), Founder Africa funding summary, Google for Startups alumni story, Africa’s Business Heroes prize records.
The Story
A founder who treated maternal deaths as a supply chain failure.
Temie grew up in Nigeria and later worked in the United States in health and development roles. Returning home, she met families whose loved ones died while blood or oxygen was available somewhere in the city, just not in the right place at the right time.
During her own childbirth experience, she saw how close a routine case can come to tragedy when a hospital cannot access blood quickly. That moment became the blueprint for LifeBank.
LifeBank was designed as an on-demand medical distribution layer. Hospitals request supplies digitally. LifeBank routes from the nearest verified source. A delivery rider, van, boat, or drone moves it within a defined response window.
Ventures
Companies founded by Temie Giwa-Tubosun.
LifeBank
Founder, CEOTechnology and logistics company delivering blood, oxygen, vaccines, and critical medical products to hospitals fast and safely.
Contribution to Africa
What changes because LifeBank exists.
Direct Impact
Structural Impact
- Health supply chain model: Proved that last-mile logistics can be built for emergency healthcare at scale.
- Data driven routing: Uses demand and location data to cut waste and speed up response.
- Trust infrastructure: Standardized cold chain and verification so hospitals accept supplies immediately.
- Pan-African template: The same system can serve blood, oxygen, vaccines, and future medical products across countries.
Signal
Cartier Women’s Initiative impact profile (2025).
Founder Africa and Google for Startups alumni stories. Africa’s Business Heroes prize records.
Data verified November 2025. lifebank.ng
Discover more African leaders shaping the continent
Explore all profiles