SISU GLOBAL
Press Room
AWARDS AND GRANTS
TiE50: 2022 Winner
SXSW 2021 Pitch Winner
03 • 20 •
21
Patents For Humanity 2020
08 • 26 •
20
Sheeo Venture Finalist
03 • 15 •
20
Maryland Future 20 Award Winner
11 • 17 •
20
Thompson Reuders 2020 #TrustLaw Impact Award
11 • 05 •
20
2020 SXSW Pitch Competition Finalist
01 • 24 •
20
2020 Forbes 30 Under 30: Healthcare
12 • 03 •
19
Sheeo Venture Semi-Finalist
11 • 18 •
19
Baltimore Business Journal’s Tech 10 Award
06 • 28 •
19
Baltimore’s Top 10 BioHealth Startup CEOs
04 • 29 •
19
RESI Innovation Challenge Finalist
01 • 08 •
19
Named International Business Champion by the Regional
Manufacturing Institute of Maryland
11 • 29 •
18
MedTech Innovator Military Pitch Competition, Runner-up
06 • 19 •
18
Maryland Women’s Business Center, Innovator of the Year
10 • 17 •
17
Two Time Winner of USAID Saving Lives at Birth Grant
07 • 31 •
17
Winners of the CAMTech and GE Healthcare's First Mile
Innovation Challenge
04 • 28 •
17
SXSW Eco, Social Impact Award
08 • 26 •
16
Named Most Viable Company by TechBuzz
12 • 28 •
15
50 On Fire Winner in Healthcare & Medicine
12 • 10 •
15
Winner, Steve Case's Rise of the Rest Baltimore Pitch
Competition
09 • 09 •
15
Grand Rapids Business Journal, Newsmaker of the Year
01 • 30 •
15
TechCon Innovation Marketplace Winner
11 • 26 •
14
MichBio Emerging Biosciences Showcase Runner up
10 • 13 •
14
IN THE NEWS
Meet the Entrepreneur: Carolyn Yarina and Gillian Henker,
Sisu Global - FINCA Ventures
11 • 01 •
22
Daily Inspiration: Meet Gillian Henker - VoyageBaltimore
Magazine | Baltimore's Most Inspiring Stories
10 • 14 •
22
Medical Design & Outsourcing - Medtech Big 100: September
2022 Issue: The Medtech Big 100 is bigger than ever
09 • 21 •
22
Medical Design & Outsourcing: Autotransfusion device maker
ships units to Ukraine
07 • 25 •
22
Baltimore Together: Sisu Global Health
Billionaires Africa: Healthcare investment as a future
focus
05 • 30 •
22
Technical.ly: With millions raised since founding, Sisu
Global Health seeks to grow reach
04 • 25 •
22
Baltimore's Medtech Sector - Part Two
International Women's Day 2022: Four life science pioneers
shaping modern medicine
03 • 08 •
22
Radio Cade: A Readily Accessible Device for
Autotransfusions
05 • 05 •
21
Harper's Bazaar: Can Women Build a Better Future?
03 • 26 •
21
Global Health Technologies Coalition: 10 Amazing
Innovations to make Motherhood Safer
04 • 29 •
21
Baltimore Business Journal: Deal roundup: Dozens of
Baltimore-area entrepreneurs, tech firms raked in extra
cash in April
04 • 30 •
21
Modern Ghana: The Hemafuse Solution to Donor Blood
Challenge in Ghana
01 • 12 •
20
Africa Newsroom: Sisu’s Life Saving Hemafuse Device
Introduced in Five Frontier Hospitals of Kenya
01 • 12 •
20
The Borgen Project: Inventions Boosting Health in the
Developing World
01 • 06 •
20
Sheeo: Why Sisu Global Health Received the Patent for
Humanity Recognition
09 • 25 •
20
Africa News: Now your own blood can save you
05 • 02 •
20
Science Africa: Hemafuse-Transforming Blood Access Across
America
04 • 20 •
20
Baltimore Business Journal: Baltimore medical device firm
seeks FDA clearance to help with blood shortages
05 • 06 •
20
Devex: Kenya's blood shortage goes from bad to worse
05 • 01 •
20
Women in Tech: Raising $3M & Enabling Clinicians to Impact
Millions of Lives, Carolyn Yarina
03 • 16 •
20
The Standard: Kit to help you donate blood to yourself
03 • 09 •
20
SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse
02 • 20 •
20
Thomas Reuters Foundation: Fighting Blood Shortages in
Kenya
11 • 04 •
20
Technical.ly: Maryland is Eyeing these 20 Startups for
Future Success
11 • 18 •
20
Devex: New models and innovations drive health access
11 • 21 •
20
Sankalp Global Summit 2020: Sisu Global
11 • 06 •
20
DailyGuide Network: The Hemafuse Solution To Donor Blood
Challenge In Ghana
11 • 30 •
20
PD Online: Your Blood can now save you from the brink of
death
12 • 04 •
20
Nairobi Garage: Emerging Business Leaders: 13 Trailblazing
Women You Should Know About
12 • 04 •
20
Nairobi Garage: Pandemic Thriving: 12 Organizations that
Prospered in 2020
12 • 22 •
20
NTV Today Kenya: Blood Crisis in the Country
12 • 05 •
19
NTV Today Kenya: There is a shortage of blood reserve in
the country
12 • 05 •
19
Technical.ly: These Baltimore Entrepreneurs Were Named to
Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2020
12 • 18 •
19
People Daily: Surgical autotransfusion to address blood
shortage
10 • 07 •
19
KTN News Centre: Can You Donate Blood to Yourself?
09 • 30 •
19
Daily Nation: How you can now ‘donate’ blood to
yourself
09 • 24 •
19
Business Today: Now You Can Donate Blood To Yourself During
Surgery
09 • 18 •
19
The Star: Amref, Surgipharm partner to improve blood access
in all hospitals
09 • 17 •
19
The East African Business Times Magazine: Amref Kenya
Partners with Sisu Global Health and Surgipharm to improve
access to blood
09 • 17 •
19
The Standard: Amref adopts Hemafuse to help combat
internal-bleeding deaths
09 • 17 •
19
Capital FM News: Amref unveils autologous transfusion
device to aid recovery of lost blood from patients
09 • 17 •
19
Baltimore Business Journal: BBJ's 2019 Tech 10 Awards
06 • 28 •
19
60 Minutes: The Rise of the Rest
03 • 18 •
19
Baltimore Business Journal: Steve Case: D.C., Md., Va.
should stop competing and start collaborating
10 • 30 •
18
USA Today: Funding your dream: How to sink your chances of
venture capital money for your startup
05 • 02 •
18
MedGadget: Hemafuse for Autotransfusion of Blood from
Internal Hemorrhage
03 • 06 •
18
Today Ghana: GE’s healthymagination Mother and Child
Programme Graduates its Second Cohort
03 • 01 •
18
Technical.ly: Sisu Global Health’s Hemafuse got regulatory
approval in Kenya, Ghana
09 • 29 •
17
Business Line: A low-cost device that injects hope into
tackling blood shortages
09 • 01 •
17
E27: 3 MedTech Startups to Watch
08 • 03 •
17
USAID: Sisu Global Health's Simple Autotransfusion Tool
Saves Lives
07 • 26 •
17
TEDxMidAtlantic Speaker, New Rules
07 • 19 •
17
Economic Times: Sisu Global Health Wins the First Mile
Challenge
05 • 06 •
17
PRESS RELEASES
Techpoint Africa - Telemedicine, mobile apps, wearables can
reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Africa
04 • 24 •
23
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
12 • 22 •
22
Saving Lives in Ukraine
10 • 31 •
22
Kharkiv Regional Military Administration
10 • 22 •
22
FINCA International Partners with Sisu Global to Deploy
Hemafuse Devices to the Frontlines of Ukraine
06 • 15 •
22
Global Heroes: FINCA and Sisu Global Come Together to Save
Lives in Ukraine
Sisu Global Announces New Appointment to Board of
Directors
08 • 14 •
20
Sisu Global Selected as Finalist for 2020 SXSW Pitch
02 • 17 •
20
Now your own blood can save you: autotransfusion device
Hemafuse will revolutionize blood access across Africa, now
available in Ghana and Kenya
02 • 06 •
20
Sisu Team Goes Global: Present at Four Conferences Around
the World
11 • 13 •
19
Sisu Global Health Partners with Amref Health Africa in
Kenya and Surgipharm to Improve Access to Blood
09 • 20 •
19
Hemafuse Used in First Planned Orthopedic Surgery
04 • 09 •
19
Kenyan Hospital Completes First Successful Surgery with the
Use of Hemafuse
10 • 29 •
18
Sisu Global Receives ISO13485 Certificate
05 • 28 •
18
Key Milestone Achieved: Regulatory Approval in Ghana and
Kenya
11 • 21 •
17
