Dharmil Sheth: Founder of Pharmeasy That Delivering The Medicine At The Doorstep of Needy Patients

In recent years, the healthcare industry thrived noticeably to fulfill the healthcare needs of people. In fact, this industry addressed all the desires of the patient. The innovative medical devices, diagnosis systems as well as Doctors appointment’s online platform; everything is possible. But among all, E-pharmacies have been playing the most important role. PharmEasy is being one of the successful E-Pharmacy platforms that connect patients with local pharmacists. Today, it is successfully helping to deliver the medicine at the patient’s doorstep. However, it is the result of the unique idea of Dharmil Sheth and his partner Shah. Through PharmEasy, they successfully brought the health commerce industry in India. 

Dharmil Sheth- Co-founder

Dharmil Sheth is well-known for his unique start-up ideas and PharmEasy is being one of them. He is a born entrepreneur, who always wanted to bring a change in the community by making things better. And so, he did it in his way. In 2015, he set up a successful healthcare start-up called PharmEasy. The PharmEasy app ensures any patients all over India to get the original medicines from authentic pharmacists. In fact, PharmEasy is much feasible for consumers to connect with local pharmacies. So, they need not go outside for the medicines they needed.

Apart from that, he started many such a start-up to satisfy consumers; means to serve society. 

Education and Career

He attended K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering for a bachelor’s degree in Electronics engineering. After that, he completed an MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. However, Dharmil began his entrepreneurial journey with 91streets. Previously, he worked with many popular brands. Currently, Dharmil handles key areas of customer experience at PharmEasy. Also, the operations and marketing divisions of the company are under his control.

Start-ups of Dharmil Sheth

Apart from PharmEasy, he started Ekagrata, 91Streets. While creating up any platform and start-up, he aimed to make things better for the community. Presently, he is one of the directors of Hobspace, an ed-tech start-up.

Ekagrata

In 2010, it is started with a vision of making a country free from poverty, corruption as well as social inequalities. So, Dharmil created a platform called Ekagrata to support quality education to ensure all-rounded development. Especially, among the underprivileged kids.

91streets

Just after his graduation, Dharmil set up a marketing platform for all types of retailers in 2014. Understanding the need for modern retailers, he started 91streets which turn out as an excellent shopping companion for modern retailers.

The backstory of PharmEasy foundation

The inspiration behind the PharmaEasy foundation was to provide easily accessible healthcare services. Also, at the same time, these services should be affordable and available to all. He noticed many start-ups provide different healthcare services in wide ranges. But there was no such platform that provides home delivery of medicines to the needy patients. 

In the end, Dharmil Sheth and his doctor friend Dhawal Shah came up with the idea to build an e-pharmacy start-up. That’s how they set up PharmEasy back in 2015 to deliver medicines online. Today, the company delivers about 98 percent of the PIN codes across India.

Current achievements of PharmEasy

Today, PharmEasy is one of the largest platforms that deliver medicines. The company has warehouses in many cities. So, consumers can expect to get their medicines delivered on the same day itself. In fact, PharmEasy administrations are available more than 700 cities and deliver a wide range of medications. It’s available in non-prescription as well as the prescription category. Also, it offers a platform to book diagnostic tests. Over the period, the company has raised a total of 328.5 million dollars.

As well, PharmEasy uses many technology products and services to assure the best service. However, the company’s app called PharmEasy has been downloaded by more than 29000 people.