Axmed

We believe access to medicines should be equal for all. We bring an innovative marketplace to empower emerging markets to access medicines more competitively.

Imagine a world where critical medicines are within reach, affordable, and synonymous with quality, no matter where you are. That's the world we're building with our unique, demand-aggregation model that unites healthcare providers across LMICs. At the heart of our identity is a resolute commitment: to build a future where geography and income never stand between any individual and life-saving med

icines. Our platform isn't merely a space for transactions, we unlock affordable access to medicines by aggregating demand across healthcare providers. We also help manufacturers build a sustainable and reliable global access strategy. Our business focuses on LMICs and strengthens the purchasing power of these markets to ensure the supply of cost-effective, high-quality medicines. We partner exclusively with authorized, high-quality pharmaceutical companies and certified caregivers to accelerate access to medicines.

07/21/2025

Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccination does.

But getting proven vaccines to the people who need them most still depends on fragmented systems, missing infrastructure, and broken delivery models.

Our latest white paper authored by Liz van Erp asks the hard question: What’s holding us back—and what will it take to unlock the full potential of vaccines?

🚨 Insights from across the access ecosystem
📦 Lessons from the field
🧩 A framework for smarter, faster, more equitable delivery

👉 Read the full paper here — https://lnkd.in/d7x4JUpm

07/17/2025

🚨 Big news announced today! Axmed and Every Pregnancy are joining forces — in a partnership that will transform access to medicines for mothers and babies living through conflict and crisis.

In too many places, essential care costs twice as much — or doesn’t exist at all.

92% of maternal deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries.

We’re here to change that.

🌍 20+ countries
💊 Affordable, quality medicines
⚡ Tech-enabled, community-powered delivery

Because no mother should die giving life.

And no newborn should be denied a future because of broken systems.

This is equity in action.

🔗 Read the press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/axmed-and-every-pregnancy-announce-transformative-partnership-to-enhance-access-to-affordable-essential-medicines-for-mothers-and-babies-affected-by-conflict-and-crisis-302506612.html?tc=eml_cleartime

🎥 Watch our announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PWcgt9daKCQ

07/14/2025

Inside the Code: Q2 Edition!

How do you build a tech stack that keeps up with public health delivery?

This quarter, we rewired the data model foundations of the Axmed platform: improving the performance of the services powering our marketplace, rolling out new tools, and laying the groundwork for smarter procurement at scale.

🧱 A rebuilt backend for faster development and cleaner architecture
📊 New workflows for transaction-level approvals and visibility
🛠️ More control in the hands of buyers and suppliers
🚀 Designed for scale, speed, and data-driven insights

In our latest Inside the Code update, CTO Mattia Albergante breaks down what’s new, what’s next, and why good architecture is essential to global access.

Read the full blog: https://medium.com//our-medicine-data-model-refactoring-0f4c1b0b2f8d

07/07/2025

Q2 flew by, and we flew forward.

In the last three months, we expanded into new markets and moved millions of doses to our procurers, enabling our partners to deliver the care they need more efficiently and competitively.

Key highlights:

🔹 More than 25M doses of medicines and health products moved
🔹 9 countries served
🔹 16 partner deliveries fulfilled
🔹 Products delivered: calibrated drapes, anti-malarials, maternal and newborn critical medicines, oncology medicines, anti-effectives, IV fluids, test kits and assorted medical consumables and health products.

💡 Real momentum. Better access. More results.

Behind every shipment: smarter supply chains, trusted partnerships, and a delivery model built for impact and more equal access to medicines.

Thanks to the partners and teams working across borders and time zones to make access possible! Proud of our Axmed team for staying focused on impact and scale.

This is what equitable delivery looks like. Check out the Axmed Marketplace 👉 https://bit.ly/4kdkX6H

06/27/2025

🎥 "The value I see in working with Axmed is their marketplace, where our needs can interact directly with manufacturers" – Richard Neci, Executive Director, EPN - Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network

In our first customer voice feature, Richard speaks to a challenge many know too well: critical medicines and health products sitting in warehouses, while clinics run dry and how Axmed has enabled better outcomes for them.

For procurers like EPN—supporting hundreds of faith-based health facilities across Africa—every inefficiency has a cost. What they need is purchasing power, speed and control brought back to them.

That’s where the Axmed Marketplace comes in:

📦 Smarter and at-scale aggregated procurement creating significant savings for procurers through increased purchasing power

📊 Real-time quotation directly from multiple local and international prequalified suppliers all in one place.

💡 Transparent end-to-end support, including logistics services, tracking and data monitoring

▶️ Hear it from our customers: https://axmed.com/solutions/

This is what it looks like to make procurement of medicines and health products work for the people they’re meant to serve. Ensuring access to medicines for all.

Check out the Axmed Marketplace 👉 https://lnkd.in/duMAuPcu

06/19/2025

Axmed Wins W.A. de Vigier Stiftung Award 2025!

We're honored to be one of 6 winners of the 2025 W.A. de Vigier Award—Switzerland’s leading startup prize recognizing bold solutions with global impact: https://lnkd.in/dVHpUZUM!

This recognition affirms our mission to transform access to essential medicines across low- and middle-income countries. We're grateful to the W.A. de Vigier Stiftung and the esteemed jury for their support. 🥹

Congratulations to our fellow winners and all the exceptional finalists. Together, we're pushing boundaries and driving meaningful change! 👏

🔗 Learn more about our work: axmed.com

06/16/2025

🚀 Tech, talent, and teamwork — all in one place.

Earlier this month, our Product & Engineering team came together in Madrid for an offsite filled with big ideas, rapid prototyping, and deep collaboration.

From debugging supply chain blockers to exploring new features that improve access to medicines, this was more than a hackathon—it was a moment to reconnect, reimagine, and refocus.

📍 Three key takeaways from our offsite included:

1. Reconnecting with purpose

Stepping back from the day-to-day helped us reflect on how far we’ve come—and where we can grow. We surfaced gaps, celebrated wins, and strengthened personal connections that will drive deeper collaboration moving forward.

2. Building together, better

Architecture deep dives and a hands-on roadmap session opened up new ways to work across teams—breaking silos and aligning on what matters most. It reinforced that meaningful collaboration doesn’t depend on location, but on shared intent.

3. Designing for what’s next

Spanning six countries, our team’s diversity fuels smarter, more inclusive solutions. The hybrid format of our offsite reflected how we work—and how we’ll continue pushing boundaries in H2 to advance access to medicines where it's needed most.

Read more in our latest blog here: https://medium.com//how-we-realigned-reenergized-and-reimagined-a-look-into-our-tech-team-workshop-960e5b65fd87

Big thanks to our incredible team for showing up with curiosity, ambition, and a whole lot of energy. And a special shoutout to Ebo & Angel for capturing the behind-the-scenes magic 📸

06/12/2025

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐔𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲-𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬

Last week, three of our executive leaders went deep on the ground in Nigeria—meeting with government leaders, local manufacturers, health commissioners, and development partners.

What they heard was clear:

🔹 Quality is non-negotiable
🔹 Countries want full control of their supply chains
🔹 Local manufacturing is about nation-building
🔹 Digital tools must solve real problems
🔹 Finance must move faster
🔹 Regulation should deliver speed and safety

Read their reflections from the ground—and why we believe LMICs aren’t just participants in global health. They’re leading it. 👇

📖 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/global-health-recentered-pulse-leadership-beats-home-ohnmacht-ph-d--g9aoc/?trackingId=1A5ve2jVSde8kLdsfcdiFw%3D%3D

05/29/2025

Welcome our latest Axmate, Temitayo Erogbogbo: our new Global Head of Corporate & Public Affairs! 🚀

Meet our growing team via https://axmed.com/about-us/leadership-and-team/ and check out more Axmed career opportunities ➡️ https://axmed.teamtailor.com/!

05/27/2025

🗞️ Global eyes on access to medicines

Following our major announcement at —the $5M matching fund grant powering $10M in MNCH medicine procurement via the Axmed Medicines Platform—we’ve seen incredible media coverage from across the world.

From Geneva to Johannesburg, outlets are spotlighting how innovation and collaboration are reshaping how essential medicines reach the people who need them most.

Swipe through for a look at some of the global headlines. 🌍

We’re proud to see this story resonate so broadly — over 1,000 mentions and reach of 110 million+ people — because access to medicines should be front-page news.

📖 Catch up on the full announcement and learn more about what this means for MNCH access across Sub-Saharan Africa 👉 https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/21/3085426/0/en/5-million-Gates-Foundation-Grant-Powers-10-million-MNCH-Procurement-via-Axmed-Platform.html

And check out a few of the featured media articles via the links:

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/21/3085426/0/en/5-million-Gates-Foundation-Grant-Powers-10-million-MNCH-Procurement-via-Axmed-Platform.html

https://apnews.com/press-release/globenewswire-mobile/felix-ohnmacht-emmanuel-akpakwu-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-malawi-rwanda-f0d98b94f809fc3ffa5a72889702f34f

https://techfundingnews.com/bridging-critical-gaps-in-maternal-and-child-health-gates-foundation-backs-swiss-startup-axmed-with-5m-grant/

https://www.africasmbjournal.com/article/814623316-5-million-gates-foundation-grant-powers-10-million-mnch-procurement-via-axmed-platform

https://www.moneycab.com/finanz/5-millionen-dollar-zuschuss-der-gates-foundation-fuer-axmed/

https://naturenews.africa/how-gates-foundation-will-provide-affordable-medicines-to-sub-saharan-africa/

https://businesspost.ng/health/axmed-gets-gates-foundation-5m-grant-for-maternal-health/

05/23/2025

📍WHA78 → What a week for Global Health!

World Health Organization (WHO)'s set the tone for something big —and it’s been a defining few days for us at Axmed.

From connecting with strategic partners to co-hosting a high-level government roundtable with Gates Foundation, we leave this stretch of WHA78 energized by the momentum building around sustainable, systems-level access to medicines.

✅ Our roundtable, where we announced a new 10M $ MNCH Matching Fund in partnership with 7 African governments to put impact and equity at the center, brought together Government representatives, Procurement entities and multilateral partners

Besides this key meeting, our team had the chance to participate in productive bilateral meetings as well as speaker events. Our Partner at Axmed Global Health Advisory, Liz Van Erp, shares here her key takeaways from the week💬: https://lnkd.in/dHAsf5hU.

Thank you to everyone who shared their voice, vision, and commitment to rethinking what’s possible in health access. The work continues—and we’re just getting started.

📖 In case you missed it, catch up on our major announcement from the roundtable: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/21/3085426/0/en/5-million-Gates-Foundation-Grant-Powers-10-million-MNCH-Procurement-via-Axmed-Platform.html

05/21/2025

🚨 BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT | $5M Grant from the Gates Foundation to Power $10M in Medicine Procurement via Axmed

It’s official. The big news we hinted at earlier this week has dropped at World Health Organization (WHO)'s .

During our high-level roundtable in Geneva, we announced the Gates Foundation has partnered with Axmed through a $5 million matching grant to accelerate access to maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) medicines across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

This unlocks a unique public-private partnership with seven key SSA governments to deploy the fund and ensure affordable, quality medicines to mothers and their children.

💡 What this means:

🔹 A 1:1 matching fund to unlock up to $10 million in MNCH procurement
🔹 Near-term liquidity for ministries of health
🔹 Access to quality, cost-effective medicines
🔹 Strengthened public procurement systems through innovation and collaboration

This is a bold step forward in addressing persistent gaps in access—driven by constrained budgets, fragmented supply chains, and shrinking donor funding.

“Our goal is not just to deliver quality medicines faster and more cost-effectively; but to help build more resilient, efficient procurement systems for the future.”

– Emmanuel Akpakwu, CEO, Axmed

A huge thank you to all the government leaders, partners, and global health experts who joined us for this pivotal roundtable. Your insights and energy are helping shape a smarter, more equitable future for medicine access.

Read the full announcement here: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/21/3085426/0/en/5-million-Gates-Foundation-Grant-Powers-10-million-MNCH-Procurement-via-Axmed-Platform.html

📣 Stay tuned as we scale this impact even further!

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