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Life Sciences

&

Healthtech

How Apprentice supercharged vaccine production with AR

As the pandemic hit, Apprentice emerged to help pharmaceutical companies manufacture products 10x faster.

Mission snapshot

The Team

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iOS Developer

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Software Engineer

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Solution Architect

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iOS Developer

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Angular

Node.js

Mongo

Swift

Pharma manufacturing

IoT

Augmented Reality

The results

$100M

Raised

400M

Vaccines distributed

45

days to rebuild platform

The scope

1

Missions

2

Years

Active

Status

Prototyping

Web App

Mobile App

Improvements

the challenge

Rebuild software platform in time to meet global demand

Within an extremely limited timebox of 45 days, Apprentice had to build an entirely new platform to help get the Covid-19 vaccine out as quickly as possible. The task was complicated by the fact that Apprentice’s platform spanned many different tech stacks.

Such an overhaul would have been impossible for their existing staff. Plus, software for pharma manufacturing is some of the most highly-regulated in that world—which means constant compliance audits.

Pharma Manufacturing

IoT / Sensors

Intelligent Batch Execution

Augmented Procedures

Immersive Training

Event Logging & Tracking

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the a.team solution

Fractional teams of healthtech experts

With no time to go through the lengthy traditional hiring process, Apprentice turned to A.Team. “To hire that ourselves organically in that timeline was going to be impossible. The engineers A.Team brought in were able to get onboarded fast and up to speed to move forward with us. There’s no way we would have been able to build what we’ve built without having a partner like A.Team,” said Angelo Stracquatanio, CEO and Co-Founder of Apprentice.

Rapid team deployment

With a deadline looming less than two months away, Apprentice needed engineering talent fast. “I called A.Team and within two weeks we had twenty engineers that to this day are still with us.”

Highly flexible & rapid scaling

After the initial sprint, Stracquatanio realized he needed even more support. “We continued to scale our A.Team resources—now we have 50 A.Teamers across everything

Integrating with the core team

Key to any team’s success is the ability to integrate and align fully on objectives. “A.Team engineers blended in with our core tech team—at this point it’s hard to tell them apart.

A.Team has fundamentally changed how we innovate. 10x speed. 10x ideas. 10x quality. We've already brought on 5 more A.Teams to build across all of our products.

Angelo Stracquatanio, CEO & Co-Founder of Apprentice

building the team

Rapid deployment of top AR engineers

Key to Apprentice’s success has been how well they integrated A.Teamers into their larger team. “We treat them as full-time employees,” Stracquatanio said. "They join all of our standups. They have effectively become our team—there's no difference. They come to our holiday parties.” Ultimately 50 engineers from A.Team integrated with Apprentice’s core tech team, working from within their organization to ramp up efficiency.

Meet the team

iOS Developer

Lyndsey S.

Flutter

Node.js

SwiftUI

iOS

jQuery

Objective-C

XML

Full-stack Developer

Andrey L.

Docer

Node.js

AWS

React

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Back-end Developer

Eduardo L.

MongoDB

C++

Firebase

Redis

Blockchain

Typescript

Front-End Developer

Joao P.

Angular

Github

Express

Vue.js

MongoDB

React Native

Front-end Developer

Ulmas P.

Azure

PostgreSQL

NgRx

Machine Learning

Scala

Software Architect

Matt C.

Unity

Unreal Engine

Kotlin

Objective-C

Python

Dev-Ops

Full-Stack Developer

Magnus P.

Java

Ruby

Node.js

Google Cloud / GCP

React Native

Software Architect

Max I.

Docker

Node.js

AWS

React

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Full-Stack Developer

Justin J.

Angular

Github

Express.js

Vue.js

MongoDB

React Native

building the product

Racing against the clock to distribute vaccines

With A.Team's help, Apprentice was able to rapidly deploy a team of highly skilled engineers who were quickly integrated into their core tech team. “The talent level was extreme,” Stracquatanio said.

The combined skill sets—IoT, intelligent batch execution, augmented procedures, and immersive training—allowed Apprentice to build a new version of their platform and scale to meet the unprecedented demand. As the immediate crisis abated, Apprentice continued to expand its A.Team, plugging in expert build teams across the company.

results

Leveraging A.Team talent to raise $100M

Apprentice launched an entirely new version of its product just in time, powering the distribution of nearly 400M doses of the COVID vaccine across the world. Since then the scope of the mission expanded and now A.Teams are fully integrated across the company. Apprentice became one of the healthcare industry’s most promising startups, and raised a $100 million Series C led by Insight Partners.

$100M

Raised

400M

Vaccines distributed

45

days to rebuild platform

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