ConnectMed founder joins Google as product manager after take over by Merck - Ventureburn
ConnectMed founding CEO Melissa McCoy has joined Google as a product manager, following the take over of the Nairobi-based healthtech startup through an asset sale by�multinational pharmaceutical company Merck.
- ConnectMed founding CEO Melissa McCoy has joined Google as a product manager, following the takeover of the Nairobi-based healthtech startup through an asset sale by multinational pharmaceutical company Merck.
- Up until December last year, the startup offered telehealth services for acute and chronic primary health conditions in Kenya and South Africa.
- In a statement on 29 March, ConnectMed said Merck will take over the startup's telehealth applications and related management systems for its CURAFA platform, with the startup ceasing operations.