Accra, Ghana
Anticounterfeiting
CEO: Bright Simons, 27
mPedigree offers consumers a service to instantly verify the authenticity of drugs at the point of purchase. Pharmaceutical companies emboss special codes on drug packaging that are recorded in mPedigree's database. When consumers purchase drugs, they scratch off a panel to reveal the code and send it via text message over a standard mobile phone. Within five seconds, they get a reply indicating whether the code is genuine.