Medlife

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Medlife International Pvt Ltd
Company type Private
Industry
Founded2014 (2014) [1]
Founders
  • Prashant Singh
  • Tushar Kumar
Defunct2021
FateMerged with PharmEasy
Successor PharmEasy
Headquarters
Bangalore, Karnataka
,
India
Area served
India
Services
RevenueIncrease2.svg₹363.4 crore (US$46 million) (FY 2019)
Number of employees
5000
Parent PharmEasy (100%)
Subsidiaries
  • PinHealth
  • Medlife Xpress (MyraMed)
Website www.medlife.com

Medlife was an Indian online platform, which provided pharmacy, diagnostics, and e-consultation in India. It was founded in 2014 by Prashant Singh and Tushar Kumar. The company had a central laboratory based in Bangalore and operated in 29 states. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] In 2021, PharmEasy acquired Medlife, and merged Medlife's operations into its own platform.

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History

The company started out as an online platform for medicine delivery and later expanded to offer online doctor consultation and diagnostic services. [7] Medlife offered one consumer-facing mobile app for accessing all three services. [8]

Founding team Saurabh Mittal (CTO), Saurabh Agarwal (CFO) and Raghunandan Sreenivasan (COO) led the company to over $150M ARR within four years of incorporation.

In November 2018, Medlife acquired healthcare start-up EClinic. [9] [10]

In 2019, it acquired Medlabz, [11] a digital healthcare platform, and MyraMed, a medicine-delivery startup. [12] [13] [14]

In August 2019, Ananth Narayanan (former CEO of Myntra) joined Medlife as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. [2] [15]

According to a Frost and Sullivan report Medlife owns 30 per cent of the e-Pharma market share in India. [16] [17]

In May 2020, Medlife became multilingual, offering Hindi language. [18]

In May 2021, Medlife was acquired reportedly for $250 million by PharmEasy, as a result of which Medlife's operations were discontinued and users were migrated to PharmEasy. The merger made PharmEasy the largest e-pharmacy company in India with 2 million customers. [19] [20]

Funding

Medlife received roughly $30 million from Alkem Laboratories' Family Office. Kumar and Singh also claim to have put $20 million of personal funds into the business. [9]

In April 2019, Medlife received $17 million in funding from Kumar's family trust. [7]

In December 2019, Medlife raised $15.5 million from Wilson Global Opportunities Fund in debt funding. [21]

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