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Conquering outpatient care: can Thyrocare help PharmEasy cement its top position in digital health?

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From left, Siddharth Shah, cofounder & CEO, API Holdings Ltd shakes hands with A Velumani, chairman & managing director, Thyrocare after signing the agreement of acquisition; image courtesy of Pharmeasy

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PharmEasy seems to have cemented its position as India’s largest online pharmacy firm with the addition of Thyrocare. It now has a diversified portfolio of offerings and a strong back-end support. With this added muscle, the more than six-year-old startup is now ready to compete with the likes of Tata-backed 1mg, Reliance-Netmeds, and Apollo Hospitals’ 24×7.

It is hard to miss the youthful exuberance of Siddharth Shah, CEO and co-founder of India’s leading online pharmacy PharmEasy. Last week, API Holdings, its parent company, bagged a 66% stake in publicly listed diagnostic chain Thyrocare Technologies in a deal valued at over INR4,546 crore. A mandatory open offer for another 26% shares takes the payout for the business closer to the billion-dollar mark and sets precedence where an unlisted

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