1. PILLPACK
A pharmacy start-up company changing the way America takes its medicine and disrupting the mail-order and retail drugstore business
Co-founded by a pharmacist and an MIT MBA; an accredited (VIPPS®) online pharmacy
Customers receive 14-day supplies of pre-sorted, pre- labeled dose packets, marked by what time and day medications should be taken
2012: Conceptualized at an MIT Hacking Medicine event
2014: Started its mail-order shipments for customers
July 2015: Launched its Medication Reminders app
By End of 2015: Had raised more than $94 million in total funding and so far shipped more than 1 million dose packet dispensers
Serving customers in all 50 states
Announced plans to supplement its mail-order pharmacy business with brick and mortar “retail pharmacies” with PillPack licensed pharmacists in major cities nationwide