Healthcare
Ampersand thinks beyond the mainstream view of the Healthcare sector. Our portfolio includes manufacturers and marketers of innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, specialty diagnostic testing laboratories, providers of outsourced services for pharmaceutical and medical device development and manufacturing, and companies that develop, manufacture and sell specialty pharmaceutical products.
Current investments in our Healthcare portfolio are:
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Agilux Laboratories
Location: Worcester, MA
Business: Bioanalytical services for drug discovery and development
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Blue Sky BioServices
Location: Worcester, MA
Business: Contract Research Organization and provider of drug discovery solutions
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Magellan Biosciences
Location: Chelmsford, MA
Business: Clinical diagnostic instruments and consumables
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MedVenture Technology
Location: Jeffersonville, IN
Business: Outsourced developer and manufacturer of disposable medical devices
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Modified Polymer Components
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Business: Specialty plastic components for medical devices
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Nitinol Devices & Components
Location: Fremont, CA
Business: Outsourced design and manufacturing services for the medical device industry
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Selected companies from our past Healthcare portfolio include:
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Aclara Biosciences
Location: Hayward, CA
Business: Microfluidic systems for diagnostics
Result: Acquired by LabCorp
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Alexis
Location: San Diego, CA
Business: Reagents for life science researchers
Result: Sold to Qbiogene
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Assay Designs
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Business: Detection kits for drug discovery
Result: Sold to Enzo Biochem
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NOVEX
Location: San Diego, CA
Business: Electrophoresis systems
Result: Sold to Invitrogen (Nasdaq: IVGN)
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Ortho Organizers
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Business: Specialty dental products
Result: Sold to Henry Schein Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC)
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Panacos Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: PANC)
Location: Watertown, MA and Gaithersburg, MD
Business: Developer of antiviral drugs and vaccines
Result: Merged with Vitex (Nasdaq: VITX)
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Signature Genomic Laboratories
Location: Spokane, WA
Business: Molecular cytogenetics
Result: Sold to PerkinElmer
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Stereotaxis (Nasdaq: STXS)
Location: St. Louis, MO
Business: Magnetic-based microsurgical tools
Result: IPO
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Talecris Biotherapeutics (Grifols, SA)
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Business: Pharmaceutical development and manufacturing
Result: sold to Grifols, S.A. (Nasdaq: GRFS)
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TREK Diagnostic Systems
Location: Cleveland, OH
Business: Provider of products for microbiology labs
Result: Sold to Thermo Fisher Scientific
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TriPath Imaging (Nasdaq: TPTH)
Location: Burlington, NC
Business: Cervical cancer screening systems
Result: AutoCyte IPO 1997. TriPath Merger 1999
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Victory Pharma
Location: San Diego, CA
Business: Specialty pharmaceutical company
Result: Sold to Shionogi