Digital pharmacy startup ScriptDash rebrands as Alto, inks $23 million for nationwide expansion –
Summary
Alto so far has delivered more than 100,000 prescriptions to 12,000 patients living in the San Francisco Bay Area since launching in June of 2015. The startup now aims to offer doctors and clinics an easier backend system to fill those prescriptions. ZappRX, a Boston-based startup in the same space, started out with a mobile solution to an archaic fulfillment infrastructure still pervasive within the modern pharmacy; Capsule is a drug delivery startup out of New York working to modernize prescription fulfillment and Zipdrug is another that comes at it as a sort of Postmates for prescription delivery. So, if Alto is to grow, it needs to rely more on the doctors sending new or infrequent prescriptions through the system to fulfill orders. With that in mind, it makes sense for the company to build a backend terminal to fulfill orders rather than focus just on prescription delivery.