CNBC May 16, 2019
Christina Farr

KEY POINTS
  • With Amazon’s jump into the pharmacy business, Nimble is focusing on helping local pharmacies deliver to customers.
  • There are about 20,000 independent pharmacies that have to stand up to Amazon while also fending off CVS and Walgreens.
  • Nimble has raised over $60 million from venture investors including Sequoia and Khosla Ventures.
Analysts say Amazon is poised to disrupt the $934.8 billion dollar global pharmaceutical industry.
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Nimble Pharmacy was among a crop of emerging companies, backed by venture capitalists, aiming to deliver prescription drugs from their own pharmacies to consumers’ homes or offices. Then Amazon bought...

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