EASE Secures $9.5 Million Equity Financing to Expand AI Medical Equipment in South Africa and Ghana

EASE Holdings BV, a Netherlands-based medical equipment-as-a-service provider, has secured US$9.5 million in additional equity from AAFC Group Inc, a U.S.-based investor in emerging-market asset-backed finance, to scale its operations in South Africa and Ghana, the company announced on November 2, 2026. The investment brings EASE’s total equity to US$24 million.

Combined with its debt facilities, the new equity will enable EASE to grow its installed base of advanced, increasingly AI-enhanced medical devices, the company said. “This investment marks an important step in expanding our healthcare infrastructure platform, which enables providers to deliver more diagnoses and treatments, while helping more patients access the care they need,” said Dr Kanyinsola Oyeyinka, CEO of EASE. Oyeyinka added that the company can now bring more high-value equipment to its customers and enable them to keep pace with AI and other technology advances.

EASE provides hospitals, clinics and specialist practices with medical equipment on a pay-per-use or managed-service basis, with minimal upfront capital. Its all-in models include maintenance, support and upgrades and can be treated as an operating expense, an arrangement the company says allows providers to focus on patient care rather than owning and managing equipment. Target categories include MRI, CT and PET-CT scanners, surgical robots and radiotherapy systems.

AAFC Group chief executive Frans van Schaik said EASE is addressing a structural constraint: providers need access to increasingly sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic technology, but the equity-to-debt ratios banks require make advanced medical equipment very expensive to own. “As healthcare technology becomes increasingly AI-enabled, that challenge becomes more acute. EASE provides a solution that allows providers to keep pace,” van Schaik said.

The investor’s newsroom identifies AAFC as African Asset Finance Company, which provides access to equipment in emerging and frontier markets through leasing, asset finance and equipment-as-a-service programs.

EASE’s deployments to date include surgical robots in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, a PET-CT scanner in Rustenburg, an MRI scanner in Akwatia, Ghana, and CT scanners in Accra. The company’s newsroom archive records that EASE announced the commissioning of the first MRI scanner in Ghana’s Eastern Region, at St. Dominic Catholic Hospital in Akwatia, in January 2024; reported a Da Vinci surgical robot installed at Busamed Gateway Private Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal in 2024; and, in January 2025, announced the commissioning of what it described as South Africa’s first pay-per-use PET-CT scanner.

After those initial deployments, EASE said it expects at least US$20 million of new installations in South Africa in 2027, working with the country’s largest banks and leading equipment manufacturers. EASE South Africa also intends to expand its board and has appointed Wynand du Plessis of Mindcor-InterSearch to recruit a managing director. Beyond South Africa and Ghana, the company is assessing additional markets, including India, Morocco and Malaysia.