Smart Stride

Smart Stride

Entrepreneurs

Baleke kaluba

Baleke kaluba

CEO

Baleke kaluba is CEO at Smart Stride.
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Idea

Smart Stride is a mobile app platform designed to simplify and make the process of accessing medications more affordable. By listing medications from nearby partnered pharmacies, the app allows patients to easily and efficiently find where they can obtain their prescriptions or over-the-counter medications. With just a few taps, users can have their medications delivered within 10–15 minutes, offering a fast, accessible, and cost-effective solution to healthcare challenges.

Challenge

Smart Stride addresses significant healthcare challenges, particularly in regions with limited access to medications. The platform solves the problem of finding and receiving essential medications quickly and efficiently. By offering a digital, streamlined solution, Smart Stride ensures that patients, especially in underserved areas, can access necessary medications promptly, while providing a sustainable business model that benefits both customers and local pharmacies.

Solution

Smart Stride offers a seamless service where customers can upload their prescriptions or medication names via the app or website. After entering their location and phone number, users can expect their medications to be delivered quickly within 10–15 minutes. The platform generates revenue by charging a small delivery fee on each medication order and collaborates with local pharmacies to ensure a rapid and reliable supply chain, enhancing healthcare access and convenience for all users.


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Smart Stride and FasterCapital partner to speed 10–15 min pharmacy delivery in Tanzania
30 Sep 2025

Smart Stride and FasterCapital partner to speed 10–15 min pharmacy delivery in Tanzania

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania & Dubai, UAE - Sep  30, 2025

Smart Stride and FasterCapital today anSmartstridenced a strategic partnership through FasterCapital’s LaunchUp program to accelerate SMARTSTRIDE’s mobile marketplace for fast, local medication delivery across Tanzania. The collaboration brings funding, technical mentorship and go-to-market support to scale SMARTSTRIDE’s app-based pharmacy network and reach underserved urban and peri-urban patients.

Market opportunity & problem statement

Tanzania’s healthcare access gap and growing mobile adoption present a major opportunity: the online pharmacy market was projected at roughly $2.77 million in 2023 with double-digit CAGR, while more than 60 million residents still face inconsistent access to essential medicines. Fragmented retail pharmacy supply, long waits and limited last-mile delivery raise costs and risk for patients — especially those with chronic conditions who need reliable refills. Smartstride targets this white space with a hyperlocal marketplace model that connects customers to near-by block pharmacies for faster, cheaper fulfillment.

Startup solution & differentiation

Smartstride’s mobile app lists inventory from partnered local pharmacies, enabling users to upload prescriptions or search OTC medicines, then receive orders in 10–15 minutes. Core features include prescription upload, geolocated pharmacy matching, real-time order tracking, ratings, and a subscription “Smart Plus” free-delivery plan for chronic patients. Smartstride’s lightweight integration with local pharmacy inventory and its delivery-sharing revenue model (platform fee plus delivery partner share) deliver low customer friction and rapid unit economics. Early pilots show consistent on-time fulfillment in pilot neighborhoods and high user retention among chronic-care subscribers.

FasterCapital partnership value

Through FasterCapital’s LaunchUp program, Smartstride gains access to global technical teams, product design resources, fundraising support and commercial mentorship tailored to digital health startups. FasterCapital’s selective criteria and track record — applied across dozens of startups — validate SMARTSTRIDE’s market fit and execution capability. The LaunchUp engagement will accelerate Smartstride’s product hardening, expand delivery logistics, and prepare a $1M raise to fund national rollout and partner pharmacy onboarding over the next 12 months. .

Executive quotes

“Hesham Zreik,” Founder & CEO, FasterCapital: “We selected SMARTSTRIDE because it combines a clear patient-first product with a defensible local network and strong unit economics. FasterCapital’s LaunchUp is designed to move promising healthcare platforms from pilot to scale quickly — and SMARTSTRIDE’s leadership team is ready for that leap.”

Baleke kaluba, Founder & CEO, SMARTSTRIDE: “Our mission is to make essential medicines reliably available to every Tanzanian. Partnering with FasterCapital brings the technical muscle and investor access we need to scale faster, improve delivery reliability and serve chronic patients who can’t afford interruptions.”

Growth trajectory & future plans

In the next 12 months SMARTSTRIDE will complete city-wide rollouts in Dar es Salaam, finalize API integrations with 100+ partner pharmacies, launch Smart Plus subscription, and expand last-mile logistics. The startup seeks $1M in seed funding to scale operations, enhance lab diagnostics partnerships and pursue national coverage for a population of 60+ million. Longer term, SMARTSTRIDE aims to add home diagnostics and a B2B supply layer to stabilize pharmacy procurement.

About Smart Stride

Smartstride is a Tanzanian mobile marketplace connecting customers to nearby pharmacies for on-demand delivery of prescription and OTC medicines. Founded by Baleke Kaluba, SMARTSTRIDE’s mission is to make essential, life-saving medicines accessible, affordable and reliably delivered across urban and peri-urban Tanzania.

About FasterCapital

FasterCapital is an early-stage incubator and venture builder providing technical teams, capital-raising support and mentorship to startups worldwide through programs like LaunchUp. FasterCapital focuses on scalable software-enabled businesses and has supported numerous companies through product, go-to-market and fundraising milestones. 

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