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If you’ve ever watched a pharmacist juggle ringing phones, stacks of prior-auth forms, and a line of patients that snakes past the greeting-card aisle, you know the profession is drowning in paperwork. Dr. Eunice Wu lived in a daily reality where 80% of her shift was spent on administrative tasks, so she decided to automate the pain away instead of accepting it as “just part of the job.”
Today, we’re thrilled to invest in Asepha as they develop AI agents for the pharmacy industry. Eunice (PharmD turned founder) and Can Uncu (an AI engineer who once forfeited his student visa to continue building) have already bootstrapped a five-person team, lived frugally in their personal lives, and secured several paid customers across Canada.
The Opportunity
$22.3 B TAM for automating repetitive pharmacy labor 10× cost advantage. Pharmacists cost ~$65/hr; Asepha’s agents run at a fraction of the priceChronic pharmacist shortages, soaring claim volumes, and AI-friendly reimbursements create an urgent pull.
What Asepha Actually Builds
Think of Asepha’s agents as a virtual pharmacist assistant that reads, reasons, and acts:
OCR intake & data entry: scans faxes or PDFs, extracts every field, and files it straight into the pharmacy system.Prior-Auth autopilot: Evaluates clinical criteria, drafts the submission, and even calls payers via a voice agent.Med-Rec & clinical review: Reconciles med lists in seconds and flags therapy problems for human sign-off.Unified desktop app: A single pane where pharmacists trigger “workflows”, no APIs or rip-and-replace required.
When Eunice left the counter for the keyboard, she imagined a world where pharmacists practice medicine instead of clerical gymnastics. We believe that the world starts with one autonomous agent routing a single fax and ends with millions of patients getting safer, faster care because their clinicians have time to look them in the eye.
If you’re building at the intersection of AI and frontline healthcare, our inbox is always open. For now, welcome Asepha to the Redbud family, we couldn’t be more excited to watch them transform the pharmacy from the inside out.
