Website dripdrop.com Founded 2008 | Founder Eduardo Dolhun Type of business private | |
Products Oral rehydration therapy powder | ||
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DripDrop is a manufacturer of an oral rehydration solution that claims to improve oral rehydration therapy (ORT) based in San Francisco, California. Eduardo Dolhun founded the company in 2008 and began manufacturing in 2010.
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History
Dr. Eduardo Dolhun became interested in oral rehydration therapy while he was in Guatemala during a Cholera outbreak in 1993. Dr. Dolhun founded DripDrop in 2008 and began raising money from friends and family. At the time Dolhun began testing oral rehydration therapy mixtures of sugars and salts on his patients at his private practice in San Francisco, California. Dolhun's goal was to manufacture an oral rehydration therapy more cost-effective than intravenous hydration treatments and that tastes better than existing oral solutions. In 2010, he settled on a formula and began manufacturing. DripDrop partnered with Doctors Outreach Clinic to provide its ORT solution to those affected by the 2010 Pakistan floods.
In August 2013, DripDrop raised $3 million in a funding round backed by Sam Nazarian, founder and CEO of SBE Entertainment Group, John Elway and Ronnie Lott. DripDrop won the bronze in the "treatments" category of the Edison Awards in 2014. H-E-B, a supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, began selling DripDrop's oral rehydration solution (ORS) in July 2014. The product is also sold in Walgreens and 15,000 other stores. Sammy Hagar, Bob Weir, Joe Satriani and Brook and Seth Taube led a $5.6 million funding round in August 2014. The company has raised more than $11 million from friends and family.
Proceeds from sales of DripDrop support the company's philanthropic efforts, engineering and production, composition, voice, and instrumentals.
In October 2014, DripDrop announced a six-year agreement with the healthcare company, Premier, Inc.