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HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES

Life science innovation demands an understanding of risk and reward.

We understand how to position, value and capture upside, which is crucial to strategic decision making related to structuring partnerships and transactions.
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Our Experience

We have real-world experience in life sciences for Human and Agriculture and, as such, understand development, regulatory and commercial positioning to optimize value.

Gusto Global

BIOINFORMATICS

Gusto Global is the leading discovery and development platform focusing on restoring key functionalities of an ecologically healthy microbiome, providing biological and computational approaches to rationally design therapies that target innate immunity by controlling both local and systemic inflammation.

PRA Health Sciences

ADVISORY BOARD
Acquired by: ICON

PRA is a clinical Contract Research Organization that has worked on 100+ drugs marketed across several therapeutic areas and conducted the pivotal or supportive trials that led to FDA and/or international regulatory approval of 50+ drugs.

NC Blue Cross Blue Shield

ADVISORY BOARD

Nearly one in three Americans rely on Blue Cross Blue Shield companies for access to safe, quality, and affordable healthcare.​

Echo Health Ventures

ADVISORY BOARD

From offices in Durham, Portland and Seattle, Echo Health Ventures invests in, builds and grows tomorrow’s great health care companies. ​

Trace Genomics

SOIL ANALYTICS
Consulting and Management Team Participation 

Trace Genomics provides soil analysis and metagenomic sequencing to quantify regenerative farming practices for carbon calculations and crop input optimization.

SciQuest

LAB SUPPLIES PROCUREMENT SAAS (DOE)
Acquired by: AKKR

SciQuest makes cloud-focused software that focuses on streamlining and lowering the cost of purchases between buyers and suppliers.

3C! Packaging

ONGOING BOARD ADVISORY
Acquired by: Essentra

3C! Packaging is a designer and lean manufacturer of packaging components, specializing in custom folding cartons, printed literature, labels, flexible packaging, and unit dose applications; primarily serving the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and food & beverage industries through strict regulatory adherence.​

SunLink Healthcare

HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
Acquired by: TIFT Regional Medical Facilities

SunLink currently holds investments in one community hospital, two nursing home facilities, a healthcare technology company, a specialty pharmacy company, and related assets.​

Covis Pharma

PHARMACEUTICALS
Capital Provided by: Bourne Partners

Covis provides patients with a portfolio of products that are affordable and therapeutically equivalent to medications of select brands.​

Synthetic Genomics / Viridos

BIOTECH FOR ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS
Consulting and Management Team Participation 

The company develops solutions addressing environmental and energy challenges through genomics-driven innovations.

Agradis

AG BIOLOGICALS
Acquired by: Monsanto Company

As a spin-out from Synthentic Genomics, Agradis provides a platform analyzing microbe-plant communities and screening for beneficial microorganisms used to develop additional biological products to improve agricultural productivity.​

CAEB International

BIOLOGICAL DISCOVERY
Acquired by: FMC

As world leaders in endophytic microbes and plant-host interactions, CAEB’s advanced discovery, optimization, and validation platform have developed products that exhibit a range of beneficial properties and strong efficacy for agricultural and environmental applications.​

RTI International

TECHNICAL AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Consulting and Buy Side M&A Advisory

Advised RTI on initiatives serving agricultural entrepreneurs (farmers) and sustainability initiatives worldwide through USAID and other governments / NGO programs.

Edison Agrosciences

PLANT BASED INDUSTRIAL MATERIAL PRODUCTION
Consulting and Management Team Participation 

Edison is an agricultural biotech that develops and commercializes plant-based industrial materials, with a primary focus on alternative rubber crops.

SoilMetrix

AG SOFTWARE
Consulting and Management Team Participation 

SoilMetrix develops crops, soils, and weather algorithms for data layers used to drive selection of crops, crop varieties, fertilizer nutrients, soil amendments, and biological products as well as their respective application rates to agricultural production fields.

Biotality

AG BIOLOGICALS
Consulting and Management Team Participation

Biotality develops and manufactures biological crop protection products intended to prevent crop damage from pests.

ZYMED Laboratories

BIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTICS
Acquired by: Invitrogren | ThermoFischer Scientific

Zymed Laboratories, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops and commercializes immunochemicals in South San Francisco, California. It develops, manufactures, and markets reagents and reagent systems for life science research, clinical research, and cancer diagnostics.​

Inspire Pharma

DRUG DISCOVERY
Acquired by: Merck

Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing ophthalmic products.

LEV Pharmaceuticals

DRUG DEVELOPMENT
Acquired by: ViroPharma

Lev is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapeutic products for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

LIPOScience

DRUG DISCOVERY
Acquired by: LabCorp

The company’s technology platform combines proprietary signal processing algorithms and NMR spectroscopic detection into a clinical analyzer to identify and quantify concentrations of lipoproteins and small molecule metabolites.​

FlexBen

HEALTHCARE IT AND FINANCE TECH
Acquired by: WageWorks

FlexBen provides an administrative, planning, and data management platform for consumer-driven tax-advantaged spending accounts for health and dependent care. Products include flexible spending (FSA), health reimbursement (HRA), and health savings (HSA).

Paradigm

AG GENETIC SERVICES
Acquired by: o-BASF Chemical Company

Paradigm is a biotechnology company providing a platform focusing on an integrated suite of technologies on the product development cycle, from target discovery to subsequent enhancement of the safety and efficacy profiles of development candidates in agriculture and human health.​

Pasteuria Bioscience

AG BIOLOGICALS
Acquired by: Syngenta

Pasteuria develops and commercializes biological products to control plant-parasitic nematodes using the naturally occurring soil bacteria Pasteuria app. A revolutionary in-vitro production process enables the development of cost-effective nematicides with a novel mode of action.​

PPD

CONTRACT RESEARCH
Acquired by: ThermoFisher Scientific

PPD is a global contract research organization providing discovery, development and post-approval services as well as compound partnering programs. The company’s clients and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations.

SlantRange

COMPUTER VISION ANALYTICS FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Acquired by: Hiphen

SlantRange is a platform to view, analyze and provide decision support for research, development and management purposes, primarily related to phenotyping for crop performance.

Advisory Boards

We actively serve on Advisory Boards for two of the most well-respected research institutes for food, nutrition, and agriculture: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Nutrition Research Institute and the California Institute for Food & Agricultural Research at UC Davis