Crimsonwings.Crimsonwings is building Nigeria's trusted blood infrastructure—connecting donors, laboratories and hospitals through advanced screening, temperature-controlled storage and rapid delivery.
Across Nigeria, blood too often goes unscreened, poorly stored, or hours away. The most unacceptable deaths are the ones where the patient reaches the hospital in time and still dies because there is no blood on the shelf. For a mother in labour or a crash victim, that gap is the difference between living and not.
Nigeria meets only about a third of its blood demand — most people who need a transfusion can't get one in time.
Source: The Guardian / NBSA
Nigeria needs up to 2 million units of blood a year. Just 371,000 were collected in 2024 — a shortfall of up to 79%.
Source: WHO Africa
Postpartum haemorrhage causes an estimated 23–30% of maternal deaths in Nigeria — roughly two to three women in every ten.
Source: WHO Africa
In a survey of 50 public teaching hospitals, not one used NAT screening — widening the window for transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs).
Source: International Health, 2024;16:636–641
A single request can take hours, held up by factors including administrative bottlenecks. In an emergency, that's time patients don't have.
Nothing links blood banks, hospitals, and donors. Every handoff is done by hand.
Crimsonwings is positioning Nigeria to own the upstream supply chain of life-saving biologiscs — building Africa's most advanced automated blood processing and logistics infrastructure.
Powered by Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) viral screening, walk-in cold rooms, and ultra-low temperature freezers, plus a technology-driven logistics network that delivers blood and plasma components to hospitals quickly, reliably, and in full regulatory compliance.
Most operators only collect and store. Crimsonwings gives hospitals one reliable chain — screening, cold storage, and fast delivery — tracked from donor to bedside.
Every unit is NAT-tested for HIV and hepatitis before it enters the chain.
Walk-in cold rooms and ultra-low freezers keep every unit viable, monitored around the clock.
A technology-driven fleet gets blood to the bedside fast — tracked end to end.
Every donation is NAT-screened and typed in our own labs before it enters the network.
Units are held in temperature-monitored hubs, positioned close to the hospitals we serve.
Emergency requests reach the bedside in under 60 minutes, tracked end to end.
Direct Donor Drive intake.
Automated sorting (BLIM): label, route, track.
Centrifugation, plasma separation, and standardization.
Automatic flow of the components
e801 + cobas 6800: serology + molecular (NAT).
Automated archiving, every sample tracked.
Compatibility testing
Dispatch to bedside in under 60 minutes.
Six integrated service lines — each essential, all connected through our proprietary OS platform.
From the donor rolling up a sleeve to the partner funding the network — find the path built for you.
Eleven steps. Zero manual gaps. Every unit tracked from collection to bedside.
Donor drives across Ogun State
Cold-chain van to facility
Automated NAT + serology
Digital intake + NAT clearance
Real-time cold-chain tracking
Digital order via Crimsonwings
Drone / bike / van selected
Nearest hub, zero manual delay
Fleet to hospital endpoint
QR scan + digital release
Full audit trail, donor to patient
NBSA
WHO
NAFDAC
USAID
OSMOH
LUTHAcross Nigeria, delays in accessing safe blood cost lives every day. Crimsonwings exists to eliminate that delay.
A mother with severe bleeding received blood within 43 minutes.
Because safe blood arrived in time, she returned home to her family.
Most operators only collect and store. We run the whole chain — screening, cold storage, and fast delivery — as one monitored network, tracked from donor to bedside.
Nucleic Acid Testing catches HIV, hepatitis B and C, and HTLV earlier and more accurately than standard tests. Every unit is NAT-screened before it's stored, so hospitals get blood they can trust.
Our ground fleet, coordination hubs, and drones move as one network to reach any hospital in our hub-and-spoke network in under 60 minutes.
If you're 18–65, in good health, and at least 50kg, you can likely donate — you'll be assessed on arrival. The visit runs from registration and a quick health screening to the donation itself and refreshments, and every donation can save up to three lives. We use sterile, single-use equipment supervised by qualified professionals throughout.
Hospitals in our network order digitally through the Crimsonwings platform, with real-time inventory and delivery tracking. We supply NAT-screened Packed Red Blood Cells, Fresh Frozen Plasma, Platelets and Cryoprecipitate under temperature-controlled transport, with under-60-minute emergency delivery where operationally available.
We're built for public-private partnership — extending the reach of public institutions with added screening, cold-chain and logistics capacity without duplicating what already works. Our work aligns with national priorities like maternal health, emergency care and Universal Health Coverage, and is accountable by design through regulatory compliance, quality systems and full traceability.
Crimsonwings is building essential, technology-enabled healthcare infrastructure for a large addressable market — an end-to-end blood platform spanning NAT screening, cold-chain and digital logistics, with a scalable operating model and high social impact. Reach out to investor relations for the full case.
For the hospitals, agencies, and investors ready to give Nigeria a blood supply it can count on.
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