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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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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

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It is also rolling out an e-commerce platform for pharmaceuticals. “We Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures. To offer all-rounded services, mPharma rolled out an ecommerce platform — the Mutti Online Pharmacy — a few weeks ago allowing its members to shop for pharmaceutical products.

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Health tech startup mPharma acquires Vine Pharmacy, enters Uganda

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Other existing investors include Silicon Valley backer Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital, Shravin Bharti Mittal of the Bharti Global Limited, Social Capital and Golden Palm Investments. Earlier this year, mPharma entered Ethiopia after striking a franchising deal with Belayab Pharmaceuticals through its subsidiary, Haltons Limited.

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Ryan Breslow’s Love health, wellness marketplace goes live

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Future iterations of the site will include social commerce. “I’m We are also integrating social commerce elements that are actually quite prevalent in Asia. We are also integrating social commerce elements that are actually quite prevalent in Asia. The DAO will then underwrite the studies.”

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

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Other existing investors include Silicon Valley backer Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital, Shravin Bharti Mittal of Bharti Global Limited-an Indian Conglomerate, Social Capital and Golden Palm Investments. mPharma also enjoys expertise backing from well experienced professions in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Bolt founder Ryan Breslow isn’t done yet

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Love aims to launch a DAO where members, who buy “Love tokens” with Ethereum or another reserve currency, can discuss homeopathic and other pharmaceutical alternatives, then vote on which of them should be tested in clinical trials. Even social media, Breslow suggests, remains a therapeutic outlet for him.

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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

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The technology helps adopters in fields as diverse as finance, healthcare, retailing, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing. Clustering algorithms, for example, are well suited for customer segmentation, community detection, and other social-related tasks.

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