Swoop, an artificial intelligence-powered healthcare marketing company, has acquired Nimble, a prescription management platform.
This acquisition adds prescription fulfillment and pharmacy connectivity to Swoop’s portfolio. Nimble works with independent pharmacies across the country and says it enables prescription management for 16 million patients through its digital-first platform.
“Ultimately, I think both of our companies are really focused on how we can drive patient outcomes,” Nimble CEO and founder Talha Sattar said in an interview with Fierce Healthcare. “And for us, I think this will allow us to bring our solutions to the 50 million, 60 million consumers who use a pharmacy every month and the 100 million consumers who use a pharmacy each year. We can give them the latest tools and help them stay on track with their care.”
Ron Elwell, CEO and co-founder of Swoop, told Fierce Healthcare that the company aims to get “even closer” and connect directly with patients, and also mentioned the company’s January 2025 acquisition of MyHealthTeam, a company that operates more than 60 symptom-specific patient communities, Fierce Pharma reported.
“We can predict when people are no longer compliant, we can predict when people are not diagnosed with a disease, and we can predict when they will next see a specialist,” Elwell said. “But what we lack is the ability to communicate directly with patients and provide information to help them navigate their patient journey.”
The acquisition will allow Swoop to do this, Elwell said, adding that Nimble has “done an incredible job” managing prescription fulfillment and treatment adherence.
Additionally, Elwell said the acquisition puts Swoop in a “completely different position” because it will be able to present solutions to pharmaceutical companies at every stage. “This really gives us a lifecycle approach to the solution, rather than just a point-in-time solution that we can provide along the patient journey,” Elwell said. “This allows us to close that loop and work with patients and drug companies from start to finish.”
Sattar said Nimble has partnered with “thousands of pharmacies” across the country, but is looking to expand further.
“If we can have access to all of them, we want to have access to all of them because it means that patients have first-hand information about affordability and drug education that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to,” Sattar said. “We are very excited to see how quickly we can expand both sides of the business.”
Elwell noted that there are tens of thousands of independent pharmacies in the United States, which is half of the total number of pharmacies in the country.
“Right now (Nimble) is the third largest pharmacy network in the country behind CVS and Walgreens,” Elwell said. “And we think that by working with Talha, we can make Talha the largest pharmacy network in the country. That’s really our goal.”
