PillPack
This year Amazon continued employing voice for healthcare uses and marketing its newly acquired PillPack.
Amazon sent Prime users an email advertising virtual pharmacy PillPack, which the company acquired in 2018.
Now consumers are turning to the web for their health products—whether it is to get a pharmacy prescription, a urine test or an “embarrassing” sexual health product.
Amazon's 2018 news also included new hires, machine learning tools for healthcare organizations and more.
This morning Amazon broke the news that it is acquiring virtual pharmacy PillPack.
Walmart is reportedly in talks to acquire PillPack, a New England-based virtual pharmacy with around $100 million in funding.
San Francisco-based TinyRx, a prescription delivery service, launched this week with $5 million in funding from Eight Partners, Google Ventures, Stanford’s StartX, as well as angel investors.
PillPack, the mail-order pharmacy that raised $50 million last June, has finally gone mobile, launching its first app, for iOS and Apple Watch.
Manchester, New Hampshire-based virtual pharmacy PillPack has raised $50 million in a round led by CRV with participation from Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, Menlo Ventures, and SherpaVentures.
PillPack, a direct-to-consumer mail order pharmacy that launched in February, has raised $8.