Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation is a specialty measurement company headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, that provides analytical workflow solutions across Asia, the Americas, and Europe. The company operates through two segments, Waters and TA, offering a diverse range of products and services. It designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance and ultra-performance liquid chromatography systems, mass spectrometry technology, thermal analysis instruments, and rheometry and calorimetry tools. These products are essential for various applications, including drug discovery, clinical trial testing, protein analysis, nutritional safety, and environmental testing. Waters Corporation also develops software solutions that interface with its instruments and those of other manufacturers. Its offerings cater to a wide array of customers in pharmaceutical, biochemical, industrial, and governmental sectors, facilitating advancements in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and quality assurance. Founded in 1958, Waters Corporation has established itself as a leader in analytical technologies.

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Wyatt Company

Acquisition in 2023
Wyatt Company is a leading manufacturer of light scattering instrumentation and software designed for the characterization of macromolecules and nanoparticles in solution. The company specializes in a range of advanced analytical techniques, including multi-angle static light scattering, field flow fractionation, composition-gradient analysis, dynamic light scattering, and electrophoretic mobility measurement. These state-of-the-art instruments and services cater to various sectors, including chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic laboratories. In addition to its cutting-edge technology, Wyatt is recognized for its exceptional training, service, and support, which set the industry standard for excellence.

Megadalton Solutions

Acquisition in 2022
Megadalton Solutions is an early-stage developer specializing in Charge Detection Mass Spectrometry (CDMS) technology and services. The company's innovative technology is designed to detect the characteristics of large molecules, particularly those in the megadalton to gigadalton range. This capability allows for the analysis of extremely large proteins and protein complexes, which are crucial in cell and gene therapies. By enabling the study of these complex structures, Megadalton Solutions supports advancements in biological research and therapeutic development that would be challenging with conventional mass spectrometry methods.

LabMinds

Funding Round in 2021
LabMinds Limited is a company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, with an additional office in Somerville, Massachusetts, that specializes in automating solution preparation for liquid-handling laboratories in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. Founded in 2009, LabMinds offers The Revo solution preparation system, which integrates advanced artificial intelligence and robotics to streamline laboratory processes. This innovative platform addresses the challenges of manual solution preparation, significantly reducing risks and waste associated with traditional methods. By utilizing cloud-based technology, LabMinds enables remote access and provides laboratories with detailed insights into chemical interactions through data collection. The company's mission is to enhance laboratory efficiency, improve accuracy, and facilitate the timely development of meaningful therapies.

RedShift BioAnalytics

Series E in 2021
RedShift BioAnalytics, Inc. is a company that develops and provides analytical instrumentation aimed at the research, development, and manufacture of protein therapeutic drugs and biopharmaceutical products. The company's flagship product, ProLaser, is a benchtop instrument designed for the rapid characterization of proteins throughout the drug development process, including lead candidate selection, preformulation, formulation development, process optimization, stability assessment, routine analytics, and quality control. RedShift BioAnalytics also offers a Microfluidic Modulation Spectroscopy (MMS) platform, developed specifically for protein scientists to measure previously undetectable changes in protein structural attributes critical to drug efficacy and quality. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company serves the life sciences and biopharmaceutical markets, focusing on enhancing decision-making in biopharmaceutical development from discovery to market.

RedShift BioAnalytics

Series D in 2020
RedShift BioAnalytics, Inc. is a company that develops and provides analytical instrumentation aimed at the research, development, and manufacture of protein therapeutic drugs and biopharmaceutical products. The company's flagship product, ProLaser, is a benchtop instrument designed for the rapid characterization of proteins throughout the drug development process, including lead candidate selection, preformulation, formulation development, process optimization, stability assessment, routine analytics, and quality control. RedShift BioAnalytics also offers a Microfluidic Modulation Spectroscopy (MMS) platform, developed specifically for protein scientists to measure previously undetectable changes in protein structural attributes critical to drug efficacy and quality. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company serves the life sciences and biopharmaceutical markets, focusing on enhancing decision-making in biopharmaceutical development from discovery to market.

Andrew Alliance

Acquisition in 2020
Andrew Alliance is a Swiss robotics company that designs and commercializes automated liquid-handling solutions for the life sciences sector. The company offers a suite of hardware and software tools, including OneLab, a graphical interface to design liquid-handling workflows; Andrew+, a pipetting robot compatible with conventional electronic pipettes; Pipette, a cloud-enabled device to improve ergonomics and traceability; and Andrew, a portable liquid-handling robot that can operate unattended with manual pipettes. It also provides Andrew Assistant, a protocol-design software to create, verify, and document biology protocols that require quantitative liquid handling. Products are assembled and tested in Switzerland, with service and support based in Geneva and an office in Boston, and are sold directly and through distributor partners internationally. Founded in 2011, Andrew Alliance is an independent Swiss company that combines robotics, vision and software to enable researchers to perform precise, repeatable liquid-handling operations more efficiently, aiming to enhance accuracy and throughput in laboratory workflows.

TetraScience

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2014, TetraScience develops hardware and software solutions for monitoring and managing research experiments, with a focus on life sciences. It offers sensors, cameras, switches, adapters, and timers to collect data from various lab tools like syringe pumps and wave generators. The company's platform, Tetra R&D Data Cloud, provides centralized, standardized, and actionable scientific data, serving scientists, engineers, managers, and safety officers in enterprise pharma and biotech organizations.

Creoptix

Series C in 2019
Creoptix AG is a Swiss company specializing in the development of optical instruments and consumables for label-free analysis of molecular interactions, primarily serving the drug discovery industry. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Wädenswil, Switzerland, with an additional office near Boston, Creoptix focuses on next-generation bioanalytical instruments that leverage proprietary sensor and microfluidics technology. Their flagship product, the Creoptix WAVEsystem, utilizes Grating-Coupled Interferometry (GCI) technology to offer high sensitivity and resolution for real-time analysis of biological interactions, accommodating various samples, including small molecules, peptides, and biologics in complex biofluids like serum and plasma. The company also provides instrument sets for fragment-based screening and binding analysis, versatile sensors for carboxyl-coupling of various molecules, and integrated software for assay setup and data evaluation, catering to both industry and academic research needs.

Riffyn

Series B in 2019
Riffyn, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a cloud-based software solution for experimental process design and data analytics, primarily serving the life sciences, pharmaceutical, food, and chemical industries. Its flagship product, Riffyn Nexus, enables researchers to visually design, measure, analyze, and collaborate on experiments through a user-friendly web interface. This innovative platform enhances the planning and learning cycle of scientific research and development by automatically integrating diverse scientific data in real time, facilitating continuous improvement in R&D processes. By overcoming the limitations of traditional electronic lab notebooks and laboratory information management systems, Riffyn Nexus significantly accelerates development cycles and boosts productivity for advanced scientific organizations. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Riffyn provides its software solutions along with implementation, change management, and educational services to clients both domestically and internationally.

Andrew Alliance

Series C in 2018
Andrew Alliance is a Swiss robotics company that designs and commercializes automated liquid-handling solutions for the life sciences sector. The company offers a suite of hardware and software tools, including OneLab, a graphical interface to design liquid-handling workflows; Andrew+, a pipetting robot compatible with conventional electronic pipettes; Pipette, a cloud-enabled device to improve ergonomics and traceability; and Andrew, a portable liquid-handling robot that can operate unattended with manual pipettes. It also provides Andrew Assistant, a protocol-design software to create, verify, and document biology protocols that require quantitative liquid handling. Products are assembled and tested in Switzerland, with service and support based in Geneva and an office in Boston, and are sold directly and through distributor partners internationally. Founded in 2011, Andrew Alliance is an independent Swiss company that combines robotics, vision and software to enable researchers to perform precise, repeatable liquid-handling operations more efficiently, aiming to enhance accuracy and throughput in laboratory workflows.

RedShift BioAnalytics

Series C in 2017
RedShift BioAnalytics, Inc. is a company that develops and provides analytical instrumentation aimed at the research, development, and manufacture of protein therapeutic drugs and biopharmaceutical products. The company's flagship product, ProLaser, is a benchtop instrument designed for the rapid characterization of proteins throughout the drug development process, including lead candidate selection, preformulation, formulation development, process optimization, stability assessment, routine analytics, and quality control. RedShift BioAnalytics also offers a Microfluidic Modulation Spectroscopy (MMS) platform, developed specifically for protein scientists to measure previously undetectable changes in protein structural attributes critical to drug efficacy and quality. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company serves the life sciences and biopharmaceutical markets, focusing on enhancing decision-making in biopharmaceutical development from discovery to market.

MediMass

Acquisition in 2014
MediMass is a technology company focused on accelerating the in vivo analysis of biological tissues. It specializes in developing innovative solutions for cancer surgery, including an Intelligent Surgical Device that effectively differentiates between malignant tumor cells and healthy tissue. This device is designed for use in operations involving sensitive areas such as the skin, breast, and testicles. By providing critical real-time information during surgery, MediMass aims to enhance surgical precision and improve patient outcomes in the treatment of both early and advanced stage cancers.

Expert System Solutions

Acquisition in 2014
ESS is a manufacturer of advanced thermal analysis instruments. ESS is an engineering and software development company, develops and implements software applications and vision systems. It offers heating microscopes to study flattening/melting behavior; optical dilatometers, which allow to carry out thermo-mechanical analyses with dilatometric resolution; optical fleximeters to study flexural behavior of materials undergoing real industrial firing cycle; combined instruments that allow to carry out thermo-mechanical analyses without contact with the sample; and Ceramic software, a tool for centralized management of technical information patrimony and control and growth of the productive systems in companies involved in ceramic field.

Nonlinear Dynamics

Acquisition in 2013
Nonlinear Dynamics, founded in 1989 by Will Dracup, is headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, with an additional office in Durham, North Carolina. The company specializes in developing software solutions for proteomics and metabolomics research, focusing on generating reliable and reproducible results across laboratories. Nonlinear Dynamics markets its software under the Progenesis and Phoretix brands. The introduction of the Progenesis brand in 2001 marked a significant advancement in the field, particularly with the launch of SameSpots, which revolutionized 2D gel image analysis through advanced image alignment techniques. This innovation addresses key challenges faced by proteomics researchers by ensuring fully aligned data and eliminating missing values, thereby facilitating robust statistical analyses.

Blue Reference

Acquisition in 2012
Blue Reference, a developer and distributor of software products for the real-time mining and analysis of multiple application scientific databases and will integrate the Bend.

Thar Instruments

Acquisition in 2009
Thar Instruments specializes in the design, development, and manufacture of analytical and preparative supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) instrumentation. The company provides a range of products including the SFC Method Station II, which serves as a green chromatography method development system for screening various compounds; the Semi-Prep Investigator II, an analytical and semi-preparative SFC system; and the SFC-MS Resolution II, which integrates the Method Station II with mass detectors for enhanced analysis. Additionally, Thar Instruments offers the PetroAnalyzer, designed for measuring the aromatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon content in diesel and jet fuel, as well as olefin content in gasoline. Their Assurance product allows for the manual injection of single compounds, further supporting laboratory testing needs. Overall, Thar Instruments is dedicated to advancing methodologies in chemical analysis through innovative chromatography solutions.

Calorimetry Sciences Corp

Acquisition in 2007
Calorimetry Sciences Corporation is engaged in the development, production, marketing, and support of calorimeters and temperature instruments. It offers power compensation calorimeters for looking at biopolymers in dilute solution, and online temperature rise calorimeters used to solve production problems in the blow molded plastics industry.

Environmental Resource Associates

Acquisition in 2006
Environmental Resource Associates (ERA) specializes in environmental testing services, focusing on proficiency testing products and quality control solutions for laboratories in both environmental and pharmaceutical sectors. The company offers a range of analytic proficiency testing products, including those for chemical, microbiological, radiochemical, and whole-effluent toxicity assessments. Additionally, ERA provides instructional materials and reporting manuals to support its proficiency testing services, ensuring that clients can effectively participate in these evaluations to assist with accreditation and verify the quality of their analytical results.

Thermometric AB

Acquisition in 2006
Thermometric AB is an Electrical and Electronic Manufacturing company. Thermometric AB offers isothermal microcalorimeters for research, development, and production control. It offers TAM III microcalorimeter system, which provides sensitivity, stability, and high measuring capacity; 2277 TAM, a isothermal heat conduction microcalorimeter system; SolCal, which is a semi adiabatic, isoperibolic calorimeter for measurements of the heat of solution.

VICAM

Acquisition in 2006
VICAM, founded in 1987 by a team of scientists and agribusiness executives from Harvard and MIT, specializes in bioseparation and rapid detection products aimed at enhancing food safety and quality. The company pioneered the development of immunoaffinity columns for the quick detection of aflatoxin, significantly advancing the field of mycotoxin testing. With a commitment to innovation, VICAM has created USDA and AOAC-approved rapid tests for various mycotoxins and foodborne pathogens, utilizing advanced detection methods such as HPLC and fluorometry. The company has established a global presence, serving customers in over 100 countries with reliable and cost-effective monitoring solutions, tailored to meet industry-specific quality and compliance needs. VICAM is recognized for its superior products, responsive service, and individualized support, solidifying its position as a trusted partner in the agricultural sector.

NuGenesis Technologies

Acquisition in 2004
NuGenesis Technologies specializes in software solutions for scientific data management systems (SDMS) aimed at science-based industries. The company develops systems that automate various data management processes, allowing laboratory professionals to concentrate on their scientific work. Its offerings include real-time archiving of raw data, automated creation of compound documents, and instant online access to varied laboratory information. NuGenesis Technologies enhances the efficiency of electronic submission processes and document preparation while ensuring seamless integration with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). Through these capabilities, the company significantly streamlines information-gathering and report development, thereby improving overall laboratory productivity.

Creon Lab Control

Acquisition in 2003
Creon Lab Control develops application software for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and life science industry. It offers services such as data management, evaluation, interlinking, archiving, and information retrieval. The company’s Q-DIS Corporate Backbone technology offers services such as Laboratory Information Management (LIMS), Electronic Lab Notebooks, Electronic Record Management, Analytical Workflow, Automatic De-replication, Automatic Structure Validation, Distribution of Scientific Information, Distribution of SOP's, Analytical productivity tools, and Stereoselective Substructure Search.

TA Instruments

Acquisition in 1996
TA Instruments is a leading supplier of thermal analysis and rheology instrumentation, headquartered in New Castle, Delaware. The company specializes in the manufacture of advanced instruments and software used in research and development, analytical, and quality control laboratories. Their products are essential for characterizing a wide range of materials, including polymers, organic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, biologicals, oils, lubricants, and inorganic substances. TA Instruments is recognized for its commitment to high-quality manufacturing and exceptional customer service, with a reputation built on technical competence and professionalism. This strong emphasis on after-sales support has led many customers to recommend TA’s products globally.

Halo Labs

Halo Labs is a life science instrumentation company based in Burlingame, California. It develops tools for biologics researchers, enabling assessments such as biologics-developability, formulation development, small molecule solubility, and AAV analytics.
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