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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. This is besides its more grandiose plan of venturing outside Nigeria into other markets within Africa.

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

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Resilience’s founders identified problems in the therapeutic manufacturing process as one of the key problems that the industry faces in bringing new treatments to market — and that hurdle is exactly what the company was founded to overcome. billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech. “It

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Industry clouds prove their business value

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Veeva’s life sciences cloud, for example, not only handles Idorsia’s regulatory, sustainability, and commercial processes but also provides predefined FDA formatting. Making sense of a complex market Given the variety of approaches and solutions, the industry cloud market has grown vast and complex.

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

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According to Verified Market Research , the Global Satellite Communication Market size was valued at USD 65.68 Its impact on the global economy spans many industries, especially Pharmaceuticals, Beauty and Care products, Semi-Conductors, and Food and Nutrients. Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 131.68

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

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One company that is planning to drive the wave of telemedicine across the continent, as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, is mPharma , a Ghanaian health tech start-up that is set to open 100 virtual centers across seven markets in Africa over the next six months. and Daniel Vasella, ex-CEO and Chairman of Novartis are members of the board.

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Funding Is Still Flowing Strong To Water-Focused Startups

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Taking on big problems The biggest rounds go to companies taking on extremely large problems, commonly tapping global markets from the start. Among the biggest recipients on our list is Boston-based Gradiant , a sustainability-oriented startup focused on wastewater treatment.

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Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s bio-manufacturing facilities

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million in new pre-seed capital, Synonym Biotechnologies has begun the development phase for its first productized bio-manufacturing facilities for non-pharmaceutical applications. The global contract bio-manufacturing organization market, which venture-backed startups like Planetary and Culture Biosciences are doing, was estimated to be $22.2