Zoe Barry
Zoë Barry is the Founder and CEO of ZappRx, a Boston-based digital health company that works with specialty pharmacies to reduce time-to-fill for patients. Barry founded ZappRx in 2012 after it took one of her family members six months to receive his specialty medication due to the bureaucratic nature of the filling process.[1]
Academic Background and Personal Life
Barry attended Columbia University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Anthropology in 2007.[2]
Pre-ZappRx Work Experience
After graduating from Columbia University, Barry worked on Wall Street for the broker-dealer firm DeMatteo Monness. She later left New York during the financial crisis to spend a year studying the behavior of primates at Harvard Medical School.[3] Barry returned to the Street to work as a financial analyst at the Hedge Fund Dawson Capital, which manages funds for high net worth individuals.[4] She then spent a year at AthenaHealth from 2011-2012, before leaving to found ZappRx at age 26.[5]
ZappRx Investors
Barry has raised $42M from a variety of Tier 1 venture firms, including Atlas, SR1, Qiming, and GV (formerly Google Ventures).[6] James Glimm, winner of the 2002 National Medal of Science, was one of her first investors.[7]
Recognition
Barry has received multiple recognitions for her work with ZappRx, including being named a Medtech Boston 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovator in 2016, to Boston Business Journal's 40 under 40, and Inc. Magazine's 30 under 30 in 2015.[8][9][10]
Promoting Women in STEM
Barry wrote in TechCrunch in 2015 that, "As VC firms continue to be positively rewarded for investing in women-led companies, they will be more open to future investments. I’d be hard-pressed – and reluctant – to stop this snowball from reaching warp speed."[11] The executive suite at ZappRx is 100% women and the company overall is 50% women.[12]
Harvard Business School Case Study
Harvard Business School did a case study on the management decisions Barry had to make in the early years of ZappRx.[13]
References
- ↑ Reid, Pauleanna. "The Strategy This Millennial Entrepreneur Used To Raise $41 Million In Venture Capital". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ↑ "Bloomberg - Executive Profile Zoe Barry". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ↑ "LinkedIn Next Wave: Healthcare - Zoe Barry". lists.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ↑ Ginzburg, Jean (2018-07-31). ""If You Have an Idea, or Want to Start a Company, Don't Wait" The 5 Lessons I Learned Being a…". Medium. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ↑ "Women of Innovation: Zoe Barry". Women on Business. 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
- ↑ "https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/04/20/digital-health-company-zapprx-raises-25m.html". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-11-26. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "Xconomy: ZappRx Gets $1M From Atlas, SR One to E-Prescribe Specialty Meds". Xconomy. 2014-01-30. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ↑ "The 2016 MedTech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovators". MedTech Boston. 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ↑ "Zoe Barry | BioData Congress". www.terrapinn.com. 2018-11-23. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ↑ "Remember These Names: The 2015 30 Under 30 List Is Here". Inc.com. 2015-04-22. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ↑ "Now Is The Perfect Time To Be A Female Entrepreneur". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
- ↑ "ZappRx Makes Specialty Prescriptions Easier to Process - Boston Magazine". Boston Magazine. 2015-05-06. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
- ↑ Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Hull, Olivia (2018-01-09). "ZappRx".
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