About

Pharmacist-Founded. Vertically Integrated.
Based in Soesterberg.

Octopus Health exists because essential medicines keep disappearing from European markets. We decided to do something about it.

Our Mission

No medicine left behind.

Every year, marketing authorisation holders abandon products that patients depend on. The reasons are commercial — the product is too small, the market too fragmented, the regulatory burden too high relative to revenue. The consequences are medical — patients lose access to medicines they need.

New EU legislation aims to address this through reporting obligations and shortage prevention mechanisms. But legislation creates obligations — it doesn’t create companies willing to take on the products themselves.

Octopus Health is that company. We acquire the marketing authorisations, manage every regulatory obligation, control the supply chain, and — when no other channel works — dispense directly to patients through our own licensed pharmacy. One company. No gaps.

Octopus Health facility, Soesterberg
Our Facility

Soesterberg,
The Netherlands.

Our operations are based in Soesterberg, centrally located in the Netherlands. From here we hold our GDP licence, operate our dispensing pharmacy, and coordinate EU-wide regulatory and supply chain activities.

GDP Licence
Pharmacy Licence
KvK
BTW
Founders

Three founders. Three accountable partners.

No layers. No committees. The people who hold the authorisations, assess the science, and make the decisions.

Octopus Health Founding Partner — Strategy & Commerce

Andries Kevenaar

Founding Partner — Strategic Market Approaches & Commerce

Registered pharmacist (BIG-register).

Detailed biography to be added.

Portrait of Tako Mulder, Octopus Health Founding Partner

Tako Mulder

Founding Partner — Quality & Regulatory

Registered pharmacist (BIG-register).

Detailed biography to be added.

Portrait of Joost Komijn, Octopus Health Founding Partner

Joost Komijn

Founding Partner — Finance & EU Growth

Detailed biography to be added.

EU Operations

Operating EU-wide from the Netherlands.

The Netherlands serves as our regulatory and operational home base. Through MRP and DCP procedures, we extend marketing authorisations from the Netherlands to other EU member states. Our GDP licence enables EU-wide distribution from a single hub.

  1. P1Home market

    Netherlands

  2. P2Core markets

    Belgium · Germany · Austria

  3. P3Growth markets

    Scandinavia · Iberian Peninsula

  4. P4Opportunistic

    Other EU / EEA (per product)

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