Artificial intelligence-powered healthcare marketing company Swoop has acquired Nimble, a prescription management platform.
The acquisition adds prescription fulfillment and pharmacy connectivity to Swoop’s portfolio. Nimble works with independent pharmacies across the nation, which it says enables 16 million patients in prescription management through its digital-first platform.
“Ultimately, I think both our companies really care about how we can drive outcomes for patients,” said Talha Sattar, Nimble CEO and founder, in an interview with Fierce Healthcare. “And I think for us it enables us to bring our solution to 50, 60 million consumers who use pharmacies every month, and 100 million who use it every year. We can bring modern tools to them and help them stay on their therapies.”
Swoop CEO and co-founder Ron Elwell told Fierce Healthcare the company was looking to “get closer” and directly connect with patients, also citing the January 2025 acquisition of MyHealthTeam, a company that runs more than 60 condition-specific patient communities, Fierce Pharma reports.
“We can predict when people are going to go non-adherent, we can predict when people are undiagnosed with a condition, we can predict when they're going to go see their specialist next,” Elwell said. “But what we lack is that ability to directly communicate with the patient and give them information that can help them move along in their patient journey.”
The acquisition allows Swoop to do so, according to Elwell, who added that Nimble “has done an unbelievable job” managing prescription fulfillment and therapy adherence.
Moreover, Elwell said the acquisition puts Swoop at an “entirely different place” by enabling it to present solutions to pharma companies at all stages. “It really gives us a life cycle approach to a solution rather than just a point solution that we can offer along the patient journey,” Elwell said. “It lets us close that loop and work with the patient and the pharma company, beginning to end.”
Sattar said Nimble works with “thousands of pharmacies” around the country to date, but hopes to expand even further.
"If we can get to all of them, we'd like to get to all of them because that would mean that patients have direct information around affordability and education about their drugs that they wouldn't otherwise," Sattar said. "We are really excited about how fast we can expand both sides of our business."
Elwell noted that there are tens of thousands of independent pharmacies in the U.S., representing half of the entire number of pharmacies in the country.
“Right now [Nimble] is the third-largest pharmacy network in the country, after CVS and Walgreens,” Elwell said. “And we think that working with Talha, we can make it the largest pharmacy network in the country. That's really our goal.”