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Nigerian e-health pharmaceutical distribution startup DrugStoc secures $4.4 million Series A funding, embarks on expansion drive

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The pharmaceutical supply chain across Africa has for decades remained fragmented leading to sourcing and distribution challenges as well as quality concerns; as fake and substandard products flood the market. Chibuzo Opara and Adham Yehia, the co-founders of DrugStoc, a tech-based pharmaceutical procurement platform.

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Accelerating Aerospace Organizational Innovation, Speed, and Resilience with Digital Technologies

CIO

It is their ability to systematically innovate, push boundaries, and challenge norms that propels Aerospace every day — it is what excites growing countries and high-value entrepreneurs to invest. Companies are working with aerospace technologies to accelerate innovation and provide new differentiation.

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Resilience raises over $800 million to transform pharmaceutical manufacturing in response to COVID-19

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COVID-19 has exposed critical vulnerabilities in medical supply chains, and today’s manufacturing can’t keep up with scientific innovation, medical discovery, and the need to rapidly produce and distribute critically important drugs at scale. billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech. “It

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WIIT: Enabling Enterprises to Realize the Full Potential of the Cloud While Bypassing its Complexity

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Serving leaders in the energy, fashion, financial services, food, healthcare, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, professional services, retail, and telecommunications industries, WIIT works with organizations that have stringent business continuity needs, mission-critical applications, and crucial data security and sovereignty requirements.

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Planbox Innovations & Improvements, Summer 2023

Planbox

I scream, you scream, we all scream for… innovation! Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, the pioneering agile innovation management platform, is excited to serve up its latest round of Innovation & Improvements (I&I) to its top-ranking platform. Want to run a challenge for continuous improvement? Done and done.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

TechCrunch

Nanome is reimagining the way we interact with science at a time when innovation in collaboration is more important than ever before,” said Bullpen Capital General Partner Ann Lai in a press release. But they have plans to use this new funding to expand into pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic biology, and even education.

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

TechCrunch

The potential for telehealth across Africa is vast and promising as mobile connectivity deepens, and innovations that could potentially bridge the doctor-patient ratio gap increase according to a Deloitte report. mPharma also enjoys expertise backing from well experienced professions in the pharmaceutical industry.