{"id":44730,"date":"2020-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/notable-acquisitions-in-health-diagnostics\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:48:58","slug":"notable-acquisitions-in-health-diagnostics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/notable-acquisitions-in-health-diagnostics\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable Acquisitions in Health Diagnostics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The health diagnostics sector includes all those companies dedicated to the development of techniques and instruments that facilitate the early diagnosis of pathologies and\/or diseases and enable action to be taken against them as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technological progress, the application of artificial intelligence in medicine and the rise of biotechnology have enabled strong growth in the sector. <a href=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/principales-inversores-en-healt-diagnostic\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/principales-inversores-en-healt-diagnostic\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health diagnostics <\/a>in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2010, more than 1,500 companies have been created and around $13 billion in funding has been raised. Moreover, since 2018, growth has accelerated, raising almost $6 billion in some 300 funding rounds in just one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notable acquisitions at Health Diagnostics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LAS-APPS-SALUD-3-EMPRESAS-RELEVANTES-EN-EL-SECTOR-MHEALTH-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"Health Diagnostics\" class=\"wp-image-54345\" width=\"837\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LAS-APPS-SALUD-3-EMPRESAS-RELEVANTES-EN-EL-SECTOR-MHEALTH-edited.jpeg 626w, https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LAS-APPS-SALUD-3-EMPRESAS-RELEVANTES-EN-EL-SECTOR-MHEALTH-edited-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LAS-APPS-SALUD-3-EMPRESAS-RELEVANTES-EN-EL-SECTOR-MHEALTH-edited-18x10.jpeg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Most recent investments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most relevant operations of 2019 at the global level was that of <a href=\"https:\/\/tangenbio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tangen Biosciences<\/a>which launched its second round (Round B) of fundraising for a total value of $75 million. Another important launch of 2019 was that of Zava, the medical and pharmaceutical services brand, which raised $32 million in its first round (Round A). In addition, gut health specialist Cara Care raised $26.4 million in its second round of funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most active investors in the A and B rounds in health diagnostics were the Novartis Venture Funds, F-Prime Capital and the Singaporean investment company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.temasek.com.sg\/en\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Temasek Holdings.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most active investors in the A and B rounds in health diagnostics have been the funds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvfund.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Novartis Venture,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fprimecapital.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">F- Prime Capital<\/a> and Singaporean investment company Temasek Holdings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Major acquisitions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/merger-and-acquisition-m-a\/\" target=\"_blank\">mergers and acquisitions<\/a> The most significant acquisition in recent years was that of Envision Healthcare by the well-known US investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for $750 million in June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pharmaceutical company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roche.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roche<\/a> acquired in February 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/flatiron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flatiron Health<\/a>a company dedicated to the research and development of cancer solutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important acquisition in 2019 was the acquisition of the pharmaceutical company Nightstar Therapeutics for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biogen.com.es\/es_ES\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biogen<\/a>. The deal was valued at $174.6 million.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BakerTilly has analysed the health diagnostics sector, focusing on the study of investment trends in the sector in recent years.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1751],"tags":[152,155,153,2119],"sectores":[2214],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-44730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adquisiciones-mas-relevantes","tag-compra-de-empresas","tag-corporate-finance-spain","tag-global-corporate-finance","tag-health-diagnostics","sectores-digital-media-advertising","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44730"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=44730"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=44730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}