Digital pharmacy startup ScriptDash is getting a new name today, along with $23 million in Series B financing. The startup will now go by Alto to reflect its intention to go beyond just delivery.
“Alto’s latin root means ‘elevated’ or ‘tall’ and we’re trying to elevate the pharmacy experience,” co-founder Mattieu Gamache-Asselin said.
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.
“Doctors and technicians call each other day in and day out trying to coordinate something but they need a technology platform,” Gamache-Asselin explained over the phone.
Of course, Alto isn’t the first trying to solve the communications issues for doctors and pharmacies. ZappRX, a Boston-based startup in the same…