One Tree Pharmaceutical Funding, Investors & Competitors

CVS Health offers a diverse set of healthcare services. Its roots are in its retail pharmacy operations, where it operates over 9,000 stores primarily in the US. CVS is also a large pharmacy benefit manager (acquired through Caremark), processing about 2 billion adjusted claims annually. It operates a top-tier health insurer (acquired through Aetna) through which it serves about 27 million medical members. The acquisition of Oak Street Health added primary care services to the mix, which could have significant synergies with all existing business lines.

Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Services Group provides private health and ancillary services in the Kingdom and the region through the establishment, management, and operation of hospitals, medical complexes, day surgery centers, pharmaceutical facilities, and other ancillary areas, including home health care, specialized laboratories, technology and information systems, facility maintenance, tele-medicine, revenue cycle management, medical equipment maintenance, and real estate activity. The company reports in three segments: Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities, Pharmacies, and HMG Solutions and Others. The majority of revenue comes from the Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities segment.

Sigma Healthcare is Australia’s largest retail pharmacy franchisor, most notably owning the Chemist Warehouse brand, which it merged with in 2025. Sigma is also Australia’s largest full-line wholesaler to franchised and independent pharmacies and distributes a broad range of pharmacy products, including prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, and front of store, or FOS, products, at low prices. The group also operates in New Zealand, Ireland, China, and Dubai, has a growing private label range, and offers third-party logistics services.

JD Health is the largest healthcare e-commerce platform in China in terms of revenue. The company offers pharmaceutical drugs and healthcare products on its platform, both as a marketplace that connects merchants to consumers and as a first-party, or 1P, direct retailer. It also offers online consultation from real life doctors and separately partners with offline pharmacies that can provide location-based 24/7 delivery as part of an omnichannel initiative to complement its core e-commerce business. Its closest competitors are Alibaba Health and Meituan for its e-commerce business. As of Dec. 31, 2024, the platform has over 200 million active annual users and over 70,000 merchants. JD Health is 67.49% owned by its parent company, JD.com.

BrightSpring Health Services Inc is a home and community-based healthcare services platform, focused on delivering complementary pharmacy and provider services to complex patients. Its platform delivers clinical services and pharmacy solutions across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercially insured populations. Its segments include Pharmacy Solutions, Provider Services, and others. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Pharmacy Solutions segment.

Raia Drogasil SA is a large retail drug store operator in Brazil. The company is engaged in the retail sale of medicines, perfumery, personal care and beauty products, cosmetics and dermocosmetics and specialty medicines. Its brands include Impulso, Amplimed, HealthBit, Stix, 4Bio, Drogasil, Raia and others.

Tsuruha Holdings Inc manages pharmaceutical companies in Japan, where the drugstore business is the core of their operations. The company generates revenue through selling prescription and over-the-counter drugs, medical supplies, nursing care products, discount cosmetics, health products, and a miscellaneous assortment of general merchandise. It also provides blood testing services, disease prevention solutions, and at-home drug delivery services.

MatsukiyoCocokara & Co operates retail drugstores and insurance dispensing pharmacies in Japan. The company's main segments are the Matsumotokiyoshi Group Business, focused on stores under the Matsumotokiyoshi brand; the Cocokara Fine Group Business, centered on Cocokara Fine stores; and the Management Support Business, which procures products, oversees group operations, and manages indirect functions such as advertising and promotion. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Matsumotokiyoshi Group Business segment.

Alibaba Health is of one of China's leading e-commerce platform specializing in healthcare-related products, including prescription drugs, OTC drugs, traditional Chinese medicine, health foods, and so on. The company operates both a third-party B2C service, or 3P, and its own direct-to-consumer business, or 1P, with its own inventory, which can both be accessed by Alibaba’s Tmall app and Alipay. The company also provides online consultation services in a separate app called Yilu or “Dr. Deer,” although its e-commerce businesses remain its core competency in the long-term. E-commerce accounted for 93% of revenue in fiscal year 2022. We estimate that AliHealth holds about 45% of market share in the industry in terms of GMV. AliHealth is 63.74% owned by its parent company, Alibaba Group.

Yifeng Pharmacy Chain Co Ltd is mainly engaged in the chain retail business of medicines, health products, medical devices, and health-related daily convenience products. Its operating segments include the Retail segment and the Wholesale segment.

Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd is engaged in the business of wholesaling drugs and medical devices. The company offers logistics and other value-added services and mainly serves medical institutions, wholesale enterprises, and retail pharmacies.

China Resources Pharmaceutical Group Ltd is principally engaged in the manufacture, distribution and retail of pharmaceutical and healthcare products. Specifically, the Group has four reportable segments as follows: Pharmaceutical manufacturing business, Pharmaceutical distribution business, Pharmaceutical retail business , and Other business operations. The company generates majority of its revenue from the Pharmaceutical distribution business.

COSMOS Pharmaceutical Corp manages retail drugstores in Japan. The company emphasizes convenience regarding its product selection, which includes medical products, health and beauty aids, personal-care items, discount cosmetics, household items, food and beverages, greeting cards, seasonal merchandise, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, insect repellent, and miscellaneous everyday consumables. The majority of the company’s revenue is derived from common grocery sales. It also operates a private grocery brand called ON 365.

Nahdi Medical Co is engaged in the wholesale and retail trading of cosmetics, pharmaceutical products, special and healthy foods, and medical equipment. It has two operating segments Front Shop and Pharma.

Apollo HealthCo, operating as Apollo 24/7, is a digital healthcare platform and subsidiary of India's Apollo Hospitals Enterprise. It offers doctor consultations, medicine home delivery, diagnostics, chronic-condition management, and insurance, reaching more than 33 million users since its February 2020 launch. Through its Keimed wholesale pharmaceutical distribution arm, the platform also supplies pharmacies across more than 1,100 cities in 27 Indian states.

PharmEasy is a Mumbai-based online healthcare platform in India. Launched in 2015, it delivers medicines, diagnostic tests, and teleconsultations through a network of 150,000 pharmacies and labs across 1,200 cities. The company acquired Thyrocare in 2021 for pathology services and partners with HDFC Bank for financing, serving over 20 million users.

Dingdang Kuaiyao is a Shanghai-based O2O platform for pharmaceutical purchases and rapid home delivery. Users order via mobile app for medications delivered within 30 minutes from partnered pharmacies, operating in over 100 cities across China.