MedMe Health co-founders Purya Sarmadi, Rui Su and Nicholas Hui
Rui Su is used to rejection. The Rx2018 pharmacy grad has worn many hats over the years, but the one that suits her best is trailblazer. Su is an entrepreneur committed to improving Canada’s health-care system. On this journey, she’s learned that rejection is part of the process.
“I can’t tell you how many times we pitched to an angel investor or a venture capitalist and they told us ‘I don’t understand your product. Don’t pharmacists just count pills?’” Su says. “There were so many naysayers, so many people along the way who didn’t understand the value pharmacists bring to patient care.”
But those rejections are in the past. Su and her co-founders Purya Sarmadi and Nicholas Hui have developed a product that is supporting pharmacists and earning funding across Canada and beyond.
Together, they founded MedMe Health, a digital patient care platform that helps pharmacists deliver their clinical services at scale. They are already serving over 140 pharmacies across five provinces, and they recently received $100,000 (CAD) in funding from Velocity in the incubator’s first virtual Velocity Fund Pitch Competition. They were also invited to be the only Canadian company of over 2,500 applicants to pitch at an event hosted by WeFunder, a San Francisco-based incubator, where they received $70,000 (CAD).
Read the full MedMe story on the Waterloo Stories website.
Suhas Thaleshvar, Alberta pharmacist, at work using the MedMe Health system.