Galen Partners

Galen Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, established in 1990. The firm specializes in growth equity and later-stage investments, primarily targeting healthcare companies. Galen focuses on sectors such as medical devices, diagnostics, specialty pharmaceuticals, and healthcare information technology. The firm typically invests between $10 million and $30 million in companies with revenues ranging from $10 million to $100 million, and it generally seeks to engage as a lead investor through convertible preferred equity securities. With a commitment to partnering with experienced management teams, Galen leverages its industry knowledge and extensive network to support the development and execution of strategic growth plans. Over the years, Galen has built a substantial investment portfolio valued at over $10 billion and has played a significant role in facilitating public offerings and mergers for its portfolio companies. The firm prefers to invest in the United States and has established a reputation as a prominent player in healthcare private equity investing.

David W. Jahns

Managing Partner

Zubeen Shroff

Managing Partner

29 past transactions

Evolve Treatment Centers

Acquisition in 2020
Evolve Treatment Centers offers the highest caliber of evidence-based care to adolescents ages 12 to 17 who struggle with substance abuse and / or mental health issues.

SMP Pharmacy Solutions

Acquisition in 2018
SMP Pharmacy Solutions, LLC, a pharmacy, provides fertility, specialty, compounding, and retail services in the United States and internationally. The company offers dermatology, fertility, gastroenterology, hepatitis, HIV/aids, immune globulin, infectious disease, multiple sclerosis, oncology, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, rheumatology, urology, and other specialty medications; and compounding solutions for pain management and women’s health. It also offers medication therapy management, delivery, easy med synchronization, copay-assistance, and other services. SMP Pharmacy Solutions, LLC was formerly known as South Miami Pharmacy Compounding, LLC and changed its name to SMP Pharmacy Solutions, LLC in March 2015. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Cambrooke Therapeutics

Series C in 2016
we dedicated exclusively to providing innovative clinical nutrition products. Our products are administered under medical supervision and are intended for patients who require specialized dietary therapies. We are committed to changing the way people, who require clinical nutrition, experience their diet.

lifeIMAGE

Series D in 2015
LifeIMAGE is an online network that enables individuals to exchange medical images. LifeIMAGE is interoperable with the hospital EMR to provide integrated access to medical images, from anywhere. Clinicians can exchange medical images with patients and providers, anywhere. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

lifeIMAGE

Venture Round in 2015
LifeIMAGE is an online network that enables individuals to exchange medical images. LifeIMAGE is interoperable with the hospital EMR to provide integrated access to medical images, from anywhere. Clinicians can exchange medical images with patients and providers, anywhere. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

lifeIMAGE

Series C in 2013
LifeIMAGE is an online network that enables individuals to exchange medical images. LifeIMAGE is interoperable with the hospital EMR to provide integrated access to medical images, from anywhere. Clinicians can exchange medical images with patients and providers, anywhere. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Quotient Biodiagnostics

Venture Round in 2013
Quotient Biodiagnostics is focused on providing high quality, high value immunohematology products to hospitals and blood banks in the US. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Alba Bioscience, Quotient offers more than 30 years of research, development and manufacturing of transfusion diagnostics products that traditionally have been sold worldwide either directly or by other major transfusion companies.

Tactile Medical

Series B in 2012
Tactile Systems Technology is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company, dedicated to advancing the standard of care in treating edema and vascular diseases at home. They manufacture and market the Flexitouch® system, an innovative medical device developed for at–home treatment of lymphedema, chronic edema, and non–healing venous ulcers.

Cardiva Medical

Venture Round in 2012
Cardiva Medical is a medical device company that’s focused on developing and commercializing innovative vascular closure technology designed to help the body heal itself following catheterization. The company’s products include VASCADE, a vascular closure system, and Catalyst II and Catalyst III, which are designed to aid manual compression. It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Quotient Biodiagnostics

Venture Round in 2012
Quotient Biodiagnostics is focused on providing high quality, high value immunohematology products to hospitals and blood banks in the US. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Alba Bioscience, Quotient offers more than 30 years of research, development and manufacturing of transfusion diagnostics products that traditionally have been sold worldwide either directly or by other major transfusion companies.

Sharecare

Venture Round in 2012
Sharecare is the digital health company that helps people – no matter where they are in their health journey – unify and manage all their health in one place. Our comprehensive and data-driven virtual health platform is designed to help people, providers, employers, health plans, government organizations, and communities optimize individual and population-wide well-being by driving positive behavior change. Driven by our philosophy that we are all together better, at Sharecare, we are committed to supporting each individual through the lens of their personal health and making high-quality care more accessible and affordable for everyone.

Cardiva Medical

Venture Round in 2011
Cardiva Medical is a medical device company that’s focused on developing and commercializing innovative vascular closure technology designed to help the body heal itself following catheterization. The company’s products include VASCADE, a vascular closure system, and Catalyst II and Catalyst III, which are designed to aid manual compression. It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Pet DRx

Convertible Note in 2009
Pet DRx is an animal care company that provides veterinary primary care and specialized services for companion animals. It also provides a full range of general medical treatments for companion animals, including preventive care, such as examinations, vaccinations, spaying/neutering, and dental care, and a broad range of specialized diagnostic and medical services, such as internal medicine, surgery, cardiology, ophthalmology, dermatology, oncology, neurology, x-ray, ultrasound, and other services. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Cardiva Medical

Series D in 2008
Cardiva Medical is a medical device company that’s focused on developing and commercializing innovative vascular closure technology designed to help the body heal itself following catheterization. The company’s products include VASCADE, a vascular closure system, and Catalyst II and Catalyst III, which are designed to aid manual compression. It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Aperio Technologies

Series C in 2008
Aperio is the leading provider of digital pathology solutions in hospitals, reference labs, and pharmaceutical and research institutions across the world. Today, our affordable and complete product portfolio improves patient care by enhancing quality assurance, delivering more efficient workflows, facilitating access to new and more targeted therapies, and improving pathologists' skills via lifelong education. Our comprehensive product line features our ScanScope® scanners, Spectrum™ image management (PACS) software, SecondSlide® slide sharing service for pathology, and image analysis tools and services. Aperio's products are FDA cleared for specific clinical applications, and are intended for research and education use for other applications.

Dakim

Venture Round in 2008
Dakim makes a product called the [m]Power Cognitive Fitness System, a combined hardware/software system for seniors that helps keep their minds in shape, and ward off the effects of old age. While the system can be used by anyone, it’s also set up to be used by older people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or senile dementia.

Tactile Medical

Series A in 2007
Tactile Systems Technology is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company, dedicated to advancing the standard of care in treating edema and vascular diseases at home. They manufacture and market the Flexitouch® system, an innovative medical device developed for at–home treatment of lymphedema, chronic edema, and non–healing venous ulcers.

ONI Medical Systems, Inc.

Venture Round in 2007
ONI Medical Systems, Inc. (formerly ONI, Inc.) develops and markets magnetic resonance imaging systems. Its products include MSK-Extreme, a musculoskeletal extremity scanner that provides the imaging of the hand, wrist, elbow, foot, ankle, and knee. The company serves hospitals, imaging centers, and orthopedic practices in the United States and Canada. It sells its products through distributors in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the Caribbean, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

Aperio Technologies

Series C in 2007
Aperio is the leading provider of digital pathology solutions in hospitals, reference labs, and pharmaceutical and research institutions across the world. Today, our affordable and complete product portfolio improves patient care by enhancing quality assurance, delivering more efficient workflows, facilitating access to new and more targeted therapies, and improving pathologists' skills via lifelong education. Our comprehensive product line features our ScanScope® scanners, Spectrum™ image management (PACS) software, SecondSlide® slide sharing service for pathology, and image analysis tools and services. Aperio's products are FDA cleared for specific clinical applications, and are intended for research and education use for other applications.

Cardiva Medical

Series C in 2006
Cardiva Medical is a medical device company that’s focused on developing and commercializing innovative vascular closure technology designed to help the body heal itself following catheterization. The company’s products include VASCADE, a vascular closure system, and Catalyst II and Catalyst III, which are designed to aid manual compression. It was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Aperio Technologies

Venture Round in 2005
Aperio is the leading provider of digital pathology solutions in hospitals, reference labs, and pharmaceutical and research institutions across the world. Today, our affordable and complete product portfolio improves patient care by enhancing quality assurance, delivering more efficient workflows, facilitating access to new and more targeted therapies, and improving pathologists' skills via lifelong education. Our comprehensive product line features our ScanScope® scanners, Spectrum™ image management (PACS) software, SecondSlide® slide sharing service for pathology, and image analysis tools and services. Aperio's products are FDA cleared for specific clinical applications, and are intended for research and education use for other applications.

InTouch Health

Series C in 2005
InTouch Health’s mission is to provide a Telehealth Network and Services to support access and delivery of high-quality clinical care to any patient at any time, while reducing overall costs of care. Their senior management and staff are devoted to leveraging their combined experience in telemedicine, telecommunications, healthcare products and services, and robotics to assist health systems to deploy telehealth programs quickly and seamlessly.InTouch Health is evolving its business model from “acute care clinical services” focus to an enterprise “care-anywhere” model by offering a complete portfolio of software, hardware, connectivity, and services that meets all telehealth needs.

JDS Pharmaceuticals LLC.

Series A in 2004
JDS Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops prescription psychiatry products. The company was founded by Michael Satow in 2004 and is based in Morrisville, Pennsylvania.
ONI Medical Systems, Inc. (formerly ONI, Inc.) develops and markets magnetic resonance imaging systems. Its products include MSK-Extreme, a musculoskeletal extremity scanner that provides the imaging of the hand, wrist, elbow, foot, ankle, and knee. The company serves hospitals, imaging centers, and orthopedic practices in the United States and Canada. It sells its products through distributors in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the Caribbean, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.
Specialized Health Products International, Inc. (OTC BB: "SHPI"), designs and develops innovative and cost-effective safety needles and other safety healthcare products. To date, SHPI has agreements with Ethicon Endo-Surgery (J&J), The Kendall Company (Tyco), Becton Dickinson and Merit Medical Systems for a total of 19 safety medical products. SHPI is now developing 12 safety needle products with 15 additional products specified for development for some of the world's largest needle suppliers. The company expects market introduction of the first of these products first quarter 2001. SHPI now has 16 different and unique safety technologies, which provide needle safety. Its technologies apply to almost all medical needles used today including: syringe, prefilled syringe, phlebotomy, IV catheter, IV infusion, winged needle set, dental, specialty, and lancets.

iScribe

Series D in 2001
iScribe is a healthcare technology company that is focused on the development of mobile, handheld, and wireless electronic prescribing technology solutions. iScribe was founded by David Levison in 1999.

EduNeering

Venture Round in 2000
EduNeering, Inc. is the leading provider of compliance learning solutions for regulated businesses. For over 22 years, EduNeering has provided clients with effective programs targeted at risk management in a regulated environment. EduNeering provides cost-effective approaches to the challenge of changing workforce behavior in global organizations.

iScribe

Series B in 2000
iScribe is a healthcare technology company that is focused on the development of mobile, handheld, and wireless electronic prescribing technology solutions. iScribe was founded by David Levison in 1999.

More.com

Series C in 1999
More.com is an online health, beauty, and wellness store.
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