Petros Pharmaceuticals Partners with Innolitics, a Leading Software-as-a-Medical-Device Developer
- Strong cash position of over $10M with reduced burn rate
- Partnership with established medical software developer Innolitics (70+ medical devices)
- Platform targets $38B self-care market with 5.6% CAGR
- Multiple potential applications across various medical conditions
- Platform still in development phase with no immediate revenue generation
- Success depends on FDA approval and market adoption
- Faces potential competition from established healthcare technology providers
Insights
Petros's $10M cash position and Innolitics partnership advances their FDA-compliant SaaS platform development for the growing OTC medication market.
Petros Pharmaceuticals is making a strategic move with this Innolitics partnership to develop what appears to be a first-of-its-kind Software-as-a-Medical-Device platform. The technology aims to facilitate prescription-to-OTC switches under the FDA's ACNU framework, essentially creating infrastructure for expanded consumer access to medications that currently require prescriptions.
The $10 million cash position combined with a reduced burn rate compared to Q4 2024 provides runway for full development without immediate financing concerns. This represents significantly improved operational efficiency for a pharmaceutical technology developer.
The technical components being integrated are substantial - AI capabilities, cybersecurity protections, retail pharmacy integration, electronic health records interoperability, and patient self-selection tools. Innolitics brings specialized expertise in medical device software development and FDA regulatory submissions, which addresses the complex compliance hurdles such a platform must overcome.
What makes this particularly interesting is the market timing. With the referenced executive order to expand OTC approvals, Petros is positioning its platform as infrastructure for pharmaceutical companies facing what they describe as "critical lifecycle management decisions." The $38 billion self-care market with projected 5.6% CAGR represents the addressable opportunity.
This platform aims to solve multiple pharmaceutical industry challenges: retail integration, EHR interoperability, and commercial scalability for OTC medications. The specific therapeutic areas mentioned (erectile dysfunction, high cholesterol, migraines, anxiety, UTIs) represent significant prescription markets that could potentially shift to OTC with proper technological safeguards.
With more than
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2025 / Petros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTPI) ("Petros" or the "Company"), a company focused on expanding consumer access to medication through over the counter ("OTC") drug development programs, today announces its partnership with Innolitics, a leading developer in the Software-as-a-Medical Device space. The collaboration is intended to integrate many of the Company's emerging capabilities in the ongoing development of its first-in-industry SaaS platform designed to complement its proprietary web application (also known as a Software as a Medical Device, or "SaMD"). Utilizing the same knowledge management system as multiple Fortune 100 companies and having developed software for more than 70 medical devices, Innolitics is expected to be integrating many of the Company's recently announced cloud-based components. These enhancements include AI, cybersecurity, and others to provide potential prescription treatments and pharmaceutical sponsors with a commercially viable and enterprise scaled platform.
Innolitics specializes in medical device software development, cybersecurity, and FDA regulatory submissions. It is expected to be integral to integrations with the Company's Big Data partner and consumer user interface experience. Their team comprises a multi-faceted array of talent including software engineers, cybersecurity experts, regulatory consultants, and AI and machine learning processing experts.
Fady Boctor, Petros' President and Chief Commercial Officer, commented, "We continue to make incremental progress in the development of our enterprise system designed to take advantage of what we believe represents a significant shift in the pharmaceutical industry. We believe that our
"As manufacturers face critical lifecycle management decisions, and the federal government has mandated new and better solutions for access to medical care, we believe our SaaS program will be key to overcoming longstanding challenges such as retail integration, electronic health record interoperability and the commercial scalability necessary for a true over-the-counter experience. This collaboration with Innolitics represents continued progress in the development of this system, and we are confident in both our approach and its potential in the larger market," concluded Mr. Boctor.
Petros' enterprise platform is being designed within the United States Food and Drug Administration's (the "FDA") Additional Conditions for Nonprescription Use ("ACNU") guidelines to facilitate bringing prescription products over the counter, and is intended to help industry comply with President Trump's recent Executive Order to expand access to medicines through OTC approvals under his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative.
The Company is developing this intended licensable platform to provide a variety of services, including patient self-selection tools, electronic health records integration to support appropriate patient use, possible integration with retail pharmacies, and robust cybersecurity and privacy safeguards. The ACNU regulatory framework provides guidelines that are designed to expand access as pharmaceutical companies evaluate various potential switches from prescription to OTC availability.
Petros' system is being designed to meet these stipulations in an efficient, commercially viable, licensable single framework. The Company believes there are multiple indications that may be appropriate for an Rx-to-OTC switch, including erectile dysfunction, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), migraine, anxiety and urinary tract infection.
The emerging self-care market is currently estimated to be valued at over
Rx-to-OTC Switches Market Size, Trends & Forecast 2033 | FMI (futuremarketinsights.com)
About Petros Pharmaceuticals
Petros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is committed to the goal of becoming a leading innovator in the emerging
About the Pathway from Rx to OTC
The process of switching a prescription medication to OTC first involves the design of a Drug Facts Label ("DFL") that is well understood by potential consumers. Then, data must show that consumers can make an appropriate informed decision to use or not to use the product based only upon the information on the DFL and their personal medical history. Consumers must then demonstrate that they can properly use the product based upon the information on the DFL. To accomplish this, the FDA ordinarily requires a consumer tested OTC DFL. Such testing includes conduct of iterative Label Comprehension Studies (LCS) in the general population, Self-Selection Studies (SSS) in a population interested in using the product and in specific populations who may be harmed if they use the product, and usually one Actual Use Trial (AUT) demonstrating safe and appropriate use by consumers in a simulated OTC setting.
The regulation that the FDA recently finalized introduced Additional Conditions for Nonprescription Use ("ACNU") criteria that enable correct self-selection by consumers and may expand OTC access to medications that formerly could only be available by prescription. An ACNU may be an innovative computerized tool, or the additional conditions may use other approaches that support the switch process. Petros is developing a technology platform (SaaS) to assist companies in navigating this pathway.
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