Queens Tech Corner: Rohan Ramnarain of Pharmachute

It’s Queens Tech Corner time! The Queens Tech Corner is a regular segment on our Queens Chamber social media channels where we shine the spotlight on tech entrepreneurs doing exciting things right here in Queens.

Can you tell us a little more about your company and how you got your start? 

 During the 2010s, I worked as a floating pharmacy technician at different pharmacies throughout the city, filling in whenever a store needed extra help. I worked alongside pharmacists, and we realized independent pharmacies in New York weren’t taking advantage of new software advances in tech. We started Pharmachute to build out this software for these pharmacies and eventually formed the only comprehensive digital ecosystem for independent pharmacies in the world. We work with them on e-commerce, digital advertising, and clinical trial recruitment. 

How did you personally get your start in tech?  

It all started in a cold and lonely dorm room in 2012 when Nate Silver proved that technology at its best could predict the real world to a T. I was sitting there at St. John’s, watching him correctly predict every single state in the election that year. He and his team did it with a lot of math, statistics, and programming. This inspired me to invest my time in learning what we now call “data science.” I committed myself to learning Python. Over the course of the next decade, those skills increased in demand, and I began working with startups in all sorts of categories - e-commerce, edtech, health tech, and prop tech - and eventually founded my own company.  

What is your latest project, and why are you excited about it? 

We’re now using AI with pharmacies to help clinical trials recruit patients, which is perhaps the most rewarding project I’ve worked on to date in terms of real-world impact on our communities.  

It’s Queens Tech Corner time! The Queens Tech Corner is a monthly profile where we shine a spotlight on tech entrepreneurs doing exciting things right here in Queens.

It’s Queens Tech Corner time! This month’s featured tech entrepreneur is Rohan Ramnarain, the founder of Pharmachute, a company that uses digital software to support independent pharmacies with e-commerce, digital advertising, and clinical trial recruitment. To learn more, go to https://pharmachute.com/.