sphingotec GmbH, a Hennigsdorf, Germany-based diagnostics company, closed a €20m growth equity financing.
The round was led by HBM and Wellington Partners. As part of the financing, Dr. Matthias Fehr, Investment Advisor at HBM Partners and Dr. Rainer Strohmenger, Managing Partner at Wellington Partners, Dr. Ute Kilger, Partner at Boehmert & Boehmert, Dr. Method Miklus, former COO of B.R.A.H.M.S and Dr. Gerald Möller, former CEO of Boehringer Mannheim will join sphingotec’s Board.
The company intends to use the funds to roll out the fully automated IB 10 point-of-care (POC) platform for testing of a broad panel of acute blood biomarkers.
Founded by Dr. Andreas Bergmann in 2002 by Dr. Andreas Bergmann, CEO, sphingotec is developing and marketing innovative biomarkers penKid® and bio-ADM® for prediction, diagnosis and therapy monitoring of AKI, congestive heart failure and septic shock, as well as the Nexus IB10 POC testing immunoassay platform acquired from Samsung-subsidiary Nexus Dx Inc. in May 2018.
In addition, the company is developing a pipeline of novel biomarkers which can predict the risks of obesity, breast cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Already more than 1,000 intensive care units (ICUs), emergency departments, smaller hospitals and larger practices in Europe and the Middle East are using sphingotec’s platform on a regular basis with more than 100,000 tests performed per year.
FinSMEs
08/10/2018