Healthcare IT · Veterinary prescribing
Furmacy
A husband and wife veterinary pharmacy that Y Combinator backed in 2020 was bought by a public pet company two years later, had its physical pharmacy closed within months, came back in 2024 as e-prescribing software called Furscription, and was sold again in 2025.
A pharmacy run out of El Dorado Hills
Furmacy, Inc. does not look, on paper, like a San Francisco startup. Y Combinator lists its home city as San Francisco, and the company’s own site pointed the same way. But when Wag! Group Co. filed its 2022 annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the leases it said it picked up in the deal told a different story: an office lease and a separate warehouse lease in El Dorado Hills, California, a town in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento, not the Bay Area.
That is where Furmacy actually filled prescriptions. What Georgia and Alex Jeremiah built was not only software. Wag’s SEC filing describes the business it bought as “a concierge prescription and compounding service that delivers pet health directly to the Pet Parent’s door,” the kind of operation that needs a warehouse, not only a laptop.
The problem: handwritten scripts and phone tag
Veterinary prescribing still runs largely on fax machines, phone calls, and paper pads. When a pet owner wants a prescription filled somewhere other than the clinic, whether an online pharmacy, a compounding lab, or a retail chain now selling pet medication, the request usually has to be relayed by hand between the clinic and the pharmacy. Later Furscription marketing, citing a white paper from FDB Vela, put the cost of that friction at 400 to 600 hours a year for a typical veterinarian.
Furmacy’s first answer was to become the pharmacy itself: fill and compound the prescriptions and ship them to the pet owner's door. Only later, folded inside a larger public company, did the surviving piece of the business become a software tool sold to other clinics and pharmacies rather than a pharmacy of its own.
Two Jeremiahs, one company
Georgia Jeremiah is a veterinarian. Alex Jeremiah is the engineer. They founded Furmacy together in 2020 and went through Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch, with Georgia as CEO and Alex as CTO. A November 2022 episode of the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, titled “Dr. Georgia Jeremiah | Furmacy,” listed “Starting a Business With Your Spouse” among its topics, confirming what the shared surname suggested. By the time Y Combinator's company page was last updated, the team had never grown past five people.
Y Combinator's standard Winter 2021 check was $125,000 for a fixed slice of equity, and a company data tracker, Tracxn, lists Furmacy's only recorded funding round as a $125,000 seed in 2021 with Y Combinator as the investor, a figure consistent with that standard deal. No SEC Form D, NIH grant, NSF grant, or FDA record for Furmacy turned up in this review: on the public record, the Jeremiahs built a pharmacy and a piece of prescribing software without ever raising a larger outside round.
Bought by a public company, then quietly closed
On August 30, 2022, Wag! Group Co., the Nasdaq listed dog walking marketplace, announced a deal to acquire Furmacy. The transaction closed on October 24, 2022, an all stock deal funded with about 90,000 shares of Wag common stock, worth approximately $0.43 million at closing according to S&P Capital IQ data cited by MarketScreener. Wag's own 10-K called the deal immaterial to the company. Furmacy added just $0.1 million of revenue to Wag's books in its first two months inside the larger company.
The physical pharmacy did not last. By May 2023, about seven months after the deal closed, the Sacramento Business Journal reported that the pet pharmacy called Furmacy in El Dorado Hills had shut down.
Furscription: the software survives
What survived was the prescribing technology. In April 2024, Wag announced Furscription, a product it said had been “meticulously developed over the last several years,” with Georgia Jeremiah credited as the veterinarian behind it and named as Entrepreneur in Residence at Wag. The product launched out of a select beta in May 2024, still directing sign ups to furmacy.com’s waitlist page and the hello@furmacy.com inbox. Wag said it had a letter of intent to integrate Furscription with a platform serving thousands of clinics, plus a growing individual clinic waitlist, but it did not name any paying clinic customer.
Fourteen months after that launch, on July 14, 2025, Wag sold the Furscription business, brand, technology and related assets, to MWI Veterinary Supply Co., a large veterinary products distributor. The deal was for cash, the amount undisclosed, and Wag said the proceeds would pay down outstanding debt. Four Wag employees moved to MWI. MWI relaunched the product at $75 a month for new customers and $50 a month at a loyalty rate, bundled with fax hosting and practice management integration.
What is proven, and what is still claimed
| Evidence | What the record shows | Source type |
|---|---|---|
| Y Combinator listing | Furmacy, Winter 2021 batch, founded 2020, team size 5, listed status Acquired, based in San Francisco. | Independent |
| Acquisition by Wag | SEC 10-K states a 100% acquisition of Furmacy, Inc. completed Oct 24, 2022, for approximately 90,000 shares of Wag stock, described as immaterial to the company. | Public record |
| Deal value | S&P Capital IQ data, republished by MarketScreener, values the stock consideration at approximately $0.43 million at close. | Independent |
| Headquarters location | YC and the company list San Francisco. Wag's 10-K instead describes two operating leases, an office and a warehouse, assumed in El Dorado Hills, California, Furmacy's actual base. | Differs from company listing |
| Pharmacy closure | Sacramento Business Journal reported the El Dorado Hills pet pharmacy had closed by May 2023, months after the acquisition. | Independent |
| Furscription launch | Wag announced a beta launch in April 2024 with an unnamed clinic waitlist and an unnamed LOI partner said to serve thousands of clinics. No paying clinic named. | Company-stated |
| Sale to MWI | Wag sold the Furscription brand, technology and related assets to MWI Veterinary Supply Co. on Jul 14, 2025, for cash consideration in an amount neither company disclosed. | Amount not disclosed |
| Funding history | Tracxn lists one $125,000 seed round in 2021 from Y Combinator. No Form D, NIH, NSF, or FDA record for Furmacy was found. | Independent, limited data |
Read plainly: the deal terms for Furmacy's sale to Wag are on the public record because Wag is a public company that had to disclose them. The deal terms for Furscription's later sale to MWI are not, because neither party was required to say what changed hands beyond “cash consideration.” What is consistent across both owners is a pattern of naming almost no customers by name, whether the veterinary clinics that used the software or the pharmacies Furmacy once compounded for.
What to watch
- Whether MWI names any clinic customers or publishes usage numbers for Furscription now that it sits inside a larger distributor's technology suite.
- Whether the unnamed platform Wag said had signed an LOI to integrate Furscription, described as serving thousands of clinics, ever surfaces publicly.
- Whether Georgia or Alex Jeremiah appear in new veterinary technology ventures. Neither founder's later role turned up in this review.
- Whether MWI's $75 and $50 a month pricing changes now that Furscription sits inside a distributor's bundle.
In their words
“We’re leveraging state-of-the-art technology to create a seamless, secure, and robust prescription platform for veterinarians and clinic staff, which helps them minimize the manual burden of inbound prescription requests and protect their licenses from fraud and drug diversion.”
Dr. Georgia Jeremiah, DVM behind Furscription and Entrepreneur in Residence at Wag!, Apr 2024 launch release · Company release
“Furscription is a complement to the Wag! ecosystem by closing the loop between veterinarians and pet parents, furthering our dedication to providing pet parents with everything they need to keep their pets healthy and happy.”
Dr. Georgia Jeremiah, Apr 2024 launch release · Company release
“We’re very proud of what we built with Furscription and feel fortunate to have partnered with such a talented and dedicated team.”
Garrett Smallwood, CEO and Chairman of Wag!, Jul 2025 sale release · Company release
“We are confident that Furscription is in great hands with MWI, who we believe is well-positioned to bring the product to market and realize its full potential.”
Garrett Smallwood, CEO and Chairman of Wag!, Jul 2025 sale release · Company release
“Furscription will build upon our existing technology enabled solutions and support our prescriber customers with access to a platform that aims to simplify their prescribing needs and manage prescription renewal requests, allowing vet staff to devote more time to pet care.”
Steve Shell, SVP and President, MWI Animal Health, Jul 2025 · Partner-stated
“We are the only solution featuring both online prescribing and third-party request management in one platform.”
Furscription product page, MWI Animal Health, accessed Sep 2026 · Company-stated
Related companies
Sources
- IndependentFurmacy company profile
- Public recordForm 10-K for fiscal year 2022
- IndependentWag! Group Co. agreed to acquire Furmacy, inc.
- IndependentWag! Group Co. completed the acquisition of Furmacy, inc. for $0.43 million
- IndependentWag Group shutters El Dorado Hills pet pharmacy after acquisition of Furmacy
- IndependentDr. Georgia Jeremiah, Furmacy, episode 177
- CompanyWag! Launches Furscription, a Revolutionary Software Solution to Solve the Veterinary Prescription Headache
- IndependentWag! introduces Furscription to streamline vet prescriptions
- CompanyWag! Group Co. Announces Sale of Furscription to MWI Veterinary Supply Co.
- PartnerMWI Animal Health Expands Technology Solutions for Veterinary Practices with Addition of Furscription
- IndependentMWI Animal Health bolsters technology solutions, adds Furscription
- IndependentMWI Animal Health Acquires Furscription
- CompanyFurscription product and pricing page
- Independent, limited dataFurmacy company profile and funding
Profile researched and written by Healthcare Discovery. Last updated September 29, 2026.
