Who's building Ankra
Handing your health data to an anonymous app is a fair thing to hesitate over. So here's who we are and how to reach us.
Why we started
We kept watching people collect years of wearable data and lab results and still find out about a problem late. The data was there the whole time — nobody was reading it together. Ankra exists to close that gap for people who don't have a diagnosis yet.
The team
Barima Opong-Owusu — founder, Ankra Health.
Barima started Ankra to put personalized health insight in the hands of everyday people — not just those with a specialist, a concierge doctor, or the time to read their own lab work.
His vision is rooted in addressing health disparities among underserved communities, particularly around obesity and metabolic disease. He understands how the healthcare ecosystem fits together — payers, providers, and public health systems — and where everyday people often fall through the cracks.
He began his career as a clinical pharmacist serving patients inside the hospital system, then moved into the pharmaceutical industry, where he has worked for the past ten years. A former D1 athlete and a lifelong wellness advocate, he is keenly aware of the intersection between lifestyle and health.
That clinical insight — and the deep understanding of health disparities — drives Ankra Health's mission: to make quality healthcare accessible to all communities.
I'm the person who answers the beta inbox. If something in the app is confusing, wrong, or makes a claim it shouldn't, tell me and I'll fix it or take it out.
Talk to us
During the beta you email us and a person on the team answers: info@ankrahealth.com. Feature requests, data-deletion requests, and bug reports all land in the same inbox.
What we won't claim
We have no clinical validation study to point to yet, no press coverage, and no app-store rating history. When we have any of those, they'll appear here with a date attached rather than as a vague badge.