Companies

Pyrls

pyrls.com

Pyrls provides practical, cloud-based drug information tools for healthcare providers and clinical trainees.

HQMinneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 4d ago
Specialization
Not classified
Business
Software Applicationsand 1 more business values
  • Data Provision
Market
Healthcareand 1 more market values
  • Education
Ecosystem
Not applicable
Customers
Consumersand 2 more customers values
  • Enterprises
  • Students
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Not applicable
Business
Software Applications, Data Provision
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Healthcare, Education
Customers
Consumers, Enterprises, Students
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Subscription
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
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About

Pyrls builds a website and mobile app that helps healthcare providers prescribe, dispense, and educate patients about prescriptions. Its product is differentiated as a practical, fast, clear drug reference designed for simplicity and intended for healthcare professionals and students.

Market

Pyrls competes in professional drug-information and point-of-care clinical decision-support software for pharmacists and other healthcare providers. It positions itself as a modern, concise, clinician-curated and workflow-native alternative by combining practical drug summaries, counseling guidance, clinical pearls, calculators, interaction screening, pill identification, mobile/web access, and embedded integrations that reduce workflow friction; established competitors such as Lexidrug emphasize breadth and EHR integration, while Epocrates and Medscape offer broader point-of-care reference suites.

Target Customers

Pyrls primarily serves pharmacists, physicians, nurse practitioners, students, and broader clinical teams that need fast, practical drug information. Its organizational users span retail pharmacies, health systems, specialty-care organizations, and academic settings, with pharmacy and clinical workflow leaders as likely buyers.

At a Glance

Problem

Pyrls addresses the clinical-workflow problem of finding reliable, comprehensive medication information quickly. Pharmacists and other clinicians often have to search multiple sources or toggle between systems, disrupting care delivery; the partnership announcement frames this as a critical workflow challenge. The main use case is point-of-care support while prescribing, dispensing, selecting drugs, counseling patients, or checking interactions. The economic pain is primarily clinician time and workflow friction, with additional safety and care-quality consequences, although the available evidence does not quantify the cost in dollars.

Product / Service

Pyrls is a digitally native drug-information platform delivered through a website, mobile applications, and a browser extension. It combines concise drug monographs with clinician-curated, guideline-driven pharmacotherapy content, including more than 800 general drug summaries and 50-plus pharmacotherapy charts. Its free tier covers core drug information, knowledge checks, calculators, and web/mobile access, while the Pro tier adds counseling points, clinical reviews, dosing and adjustments, interaction checking, pharmacotherapy reviews, and expanded tables and charts.

The delivery model is freemium for individuals, with Pro priced at $15 per month when paid annually or $40 per month when paid monthly, plus organization offerings with analytics, custom content, and single sign-on. Pyrls can also be embedded into clinical workflow software, as shown by its integration with EQUIPP Copilot, putting summaries, counseling points, pill identification, and interaction screening where pharmacists already work. The benefit is faster access to practical information without leaving the workflow, supporting more efficient decisions and patient conversations.

Market

Pyrls competes in digital drug information and clinical decision-support software for pharmacists, physicians, nurses, advanced-practice clinicians, students, and healthcare organizations. Its adjacent or direct reference competitors include PDR, which offers searchable drug information, interaction detection, and pill identification, and Wolters Kluwer’s UpToDate Lexidrug/Facts and Comparisons, which provides pharmacist-focused evidence, drug comparisons, interactions, dosing, and extensive drug tables. Pyrls’s positioning is more digitally native and workflow-oriented, emphasizing concise summaries, clinician-curated insights, and modern web and mobile access; the evidence does not provide a formal company-published competitor list.

Pyrls is not pre-revenue. A January 2025 profile reported more than 10,000 paying subscribers, 50,000 free users, and revenue that had doubled over the prior year. Y Combinator lists the company as an active Winter 2022 SaaS company and reported 50,000-plus clinicians and trainees and hundreds of organizations, while a December 2025 partnership announcement reported that more than 100,000 clinicians relied on Pyrls. These figures use different dates and user definitions, but together indicate meaningful adoption and paid demand rather than a pre-revenue product; the available evidence does not include audited financials.

Founders & Leadership

Derek BorkowskiFounder
Founder & CEO
Richard WaitheChief Operating Officer (COO)

Funding History

2022-03
Seed (Tracxn); Pre-Seed (Crunchbase)$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-02-08product_launch
Pyrls launches free 225-question NAPLEX prep program for pharmacy schools

Rx Radio reported that Pyrls launched a free 225-question NAPLEX preparation program for pharmacy schools, offering virtual testing centers on mobile and web.

2025-12-15partnership
Pharmacy Quality Solutions Announces Strategic Partnership with Pyrls to Transform Clinical Workflow for Pharmacists

Innovaccer reported the PQS–Pyrls strategic partnership, including a zero-click solution for identifying and documenting clinical-services opportunities in pharmacists’ workflows.

2025-10-14product_launch
Pyrls - Presenters F - - Oct 14 2025

An AACP presenter profile described Pyrls as an evidence-based web and mobile drug-information platform for pharmacy students, including NAPLEX preparation resources and knowledge-check assessments.

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Business Model

Pyrls offers free access alongside a paid subscription priced at $15 per month when billed annually or $40 per month when billed monthly. It also provides discounts for students and new practitioners.

Products

Pyrls core web and mobile drug-information platformPyrls Pro subscription with advanced pharmacotherapy and drug-knowledge resourcesDrug summaries covering indications, pharmacology, counseling points, and clinical pearlsClinical calculators, reference tables, figures, and chartsDrug interaction screening and visual pill identificationBrowser extension and embedded workflow integrations such as EQUIPP Copilot

Tech Stack

Cloud-based SaaS platformWeb and mobile applicationsGoogle Cloud PlatformCloudflare Website OptimizationGoogle Cloud DNSBrowser extension

Competitors

Lexidrug (Lexicomp)
Micromedex
Epocrates
Medscape
AccuRx
Seegnal
MedAware