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Home | Business | We Hub Startup Smartpharma On A Growth Path

WE-Hub startup SmartPharma on a growth path

Saketha Pingali started the company with two of her friends Bharath Kumar and Surya Megham and feels that being associated with a government-run incubator provides legitimacy to a new company

By Sruti Venugopal
Published Date - 11:19 PM, Thu - 19 November 20
WE-Hub startup SmartPharma on a growth path
From (L) SmartPharma CEO Saketha Pingali with Deepthi Ravula, CEO, WE HUb.
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Hyderabad: When Saketha Pingali walked into the office of WE-Hub in October 2019 she was struggling to build a team, get technical documentation for her product ready, and also facing issues with clients and investors. However, in just a year the young entrepreneur and co-founder of SmartPharma transformed her company with a new investment of Rs 2 crore, a new address to meet clients, and also recruiting talent with ease.

“When I saw the board of WE-Hub last year, we were in the team building and software documentation stage. However, by the time we got selected for the incubation programme, we started seeing a change in the mindset of our team and the seriousness of working for a new company had gone up. Not just this, we started holding client meetings in WE-Hub which provided legitimacy to our work and fast-tracked our product development. One of the biggest contributors for our investment to come through is because of the support we got from WE-Hub and the team,” says Pingali.

SmartPharma is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that digitises and automates the whole supply chain process for the pharmaceutical industry which includes inventory management, customer relationship management, and as it is cloud-based, it is more secure and safe. She started the company with two of her friends Bharath Kumar and Surya Megham and feels that being associated with a government-run incubator provides legitimacy to a new company and also is an added advantage to women entrepreneurs who have to face a host of societal pressures to succeed.

“The pharma sector is highly unorganised and also very close-knit. So, to break the barriers of the industry was difficult initially. However, once we associated ourselves with WE-Hub it has become easier for us to get clients and also hire new talent – who are initially apprehensive to join a startup. If we had not got WE-Hub and government’s support it would have taken us at least 2-3 years more to reach the stage that we have reached in the last one year,” she says.

Going ahead, the startup plans to get large pharma and healthcare enterprises on-board and plans to hire new talent for the technical team.


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