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Merck KGaA operates in three main segments: life science, electronics, and healthcare. The life science segment provides laboratory consumables and instruments to researchers in academia and applied fields, including the biopharmaceutical industry. The electronics segment offers specialty materials to manufacture a variety of products, such as semiconductors and flat-screen televisions. In the healthcare segment, Merck develops, manufactures, and sells branded pharmaceuticals with significant therapeutic concentrations in oncology, multiple sclerosis, and fertility. In 1995, the E. Merck family publicly sold part of the company, resulting in the current 30% public ownership of the firm.

Illumina is a genomics company headquartered in San Diego, California, that develops and sells DNA sequencing and array-based systems for research, clinical and applied markets. It was incorporated in April 1998 by David Walt, Larry Bock, John Stuelpnagel, Anthony Czarnik and Mark Chee, and its shares trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol ILMN. Its NovaSeq, NextSeq and MiSeq sequencers and microarrays are bought by genomic research centers, pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions and clinical laboratories. Revenue comes from instrument sales and from the consumables and services used with an installed base of about 21,000 systems in 165 countries. Fiscal 2025 revenue was $4.34 billion, flat on 2024, with GAAP net income of $850 million, and the company has about 8,600 employees. It acquired the cancer-detection company GRAIL in 2021 and completed its spin-off in June 2024, keeping a 14.5% minority stake. In January 2025 it invested $20 million in Truveta alongside Regeneron to support the Truveta Genome Project.

Sartorius AG is a leading provider of bioprocessing solutions. Its bioprocess division sells equipment and consumables for upstream and downstream manufacturing of biologic drugs, and has a focus on single-use technology. Its laboratory products and services division offers a wide range of products for laboratory use, including scales, pipettes, and filtration equipment. As of 2024, the bioprocess and LPS divisions contributed 80% and 20% of revenue, respectively. Bioprocess is housed in its subsidiary Sartorius Stedim Biotech, of which Sartorius AG has a 72% ownership and 83% voting control. The business is geographically diverse, with revenue across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (41% of 2024 sales), the Americas (36%), and Asia-Pacific (23%). We estimate China revenue to be around 10%.

Demant is a Denmark-based manufacturer and distributor of hearing solutions, such as hearing aid devices and diagnostic equipment. More than 80% of the company's sales come from North America and Europe.

Based in Minnesota, Bio-Techne is a life sciences manufacturer supplying consumables and instruments for the pharma, biotech, academic, and diagnostic markets. It reports in two segments: protein sciences (about 75% of revenue) and diagnostics and genomics (25%). The protein sciences segment sells reagents and analytical instruments used in life sciences research, including antibodies used in protein analysis. The diagnostics and genomics segment sells diagnostic reagents, molecular diagnostics, and spatial biology products. The United States accounts for about 55% of revenue. The firm also has operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (20% of sales), the UK (5%), and Asia-Pacific (15%), with the rest of the world accounting for the remaining 5%.

10x Genomics Inc is a life science technology company based in the United States. Its solutions include instruments, consumables, and software for analyzing biological systems. The company's integrated solutions include instruments, consumables, and software for analyzing biological systems at a resolution and scale that matches the complexity of biology. Its product offerings include a Chromium platform comprising microfluidic chips and related consumables, Chromium X series, Visium and Xenium platforms, and others, which are predominantly used for the study of biological components. Geographically, the company derives operates from the United States and the rest from Americas (excluding the United States), Europe, Middle East and Africa, China, and Asia-Pacific (excluding China).

Benchling is a software company that sells a cloud R&D platform to life sciences and biotechnology organisations. The platform brings electronic lab notebooks, sequence design and molecular biology tools, sample and inventory registries, workflow management and data analysis into one system of record for scientific work. Customers are pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, agricultural and industrial biology firms, and academic laboratories, which pay recurring subscriptions for access. Benchling also offers a developer platform with APIs for connecting laboratory instruments and other systems, and has added artificial intelligence tools to its product through acquisitions. The company was founded in 2012 by Sajith Wickramasekara and Ashu Singhal and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is privately held and backed by venture and growth investors.

BillionToOne Inc is a precision diagnostics company revolutionizing molecular testing with its patented Quantitative Counting Templates (QCT) platform. This technology enables ultrasensitive, single-molecule DNA quantification, making genetic testing more accurate, affordable, and accessible. The company serves prenatal screening and oncology markets with non-invasive tests that detect fetal genetic risks and monitor cancer therapy response.

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp is a company advancing the field of immune-driven medicine by harnessing the inherent biology of the adaptive immune system to transform the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Its clinical diagnostic product, clonoSEQ, is test authorized by the FDA for the detection and monitoring of minimal residual disease (MRD) in patients with multiple myeloma (MM), B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and is also available as a CLIA-validated laboratory developed test (LDT) for patients with other lymphoid cancers, including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

Astromech is an artificial intelligence company spun out of Colossal Biosciences, founded by Ben Lamm. It uses AI to analyze biological data and forecast evolution and disease risk, applying its platform to biotech research.

Chai Discovery is a San Francisco-based applied AI research lab, founded in 2024, that builds foundation models to predict and design interactions between biochemical molecules for drug discovery. Its models, including Chai-1, Chai-2, and Chai-3, are used to design molecules such as antibodies for difficult drug targets, with its most recent model achieving a de novo antibody hit rate far above prior computational methods. The company's technology has been used by pharmaceutical partners including Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis.

Sinovac Life Sciences is a research-driven biopharma conducting vaccine R&D, production, and commercialization for human infectious diseases. Based in China, it focuses on viral pathogens through clinical trials, process scale-up, and regulatory filings. Operations mirror Sinovac Biotech efforts in formulation stability and large-scale filling for needle-free and traditional delivery systems.

InSilico Medicine Cayman TopCo is engaged in applying artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to drug discovery and development by leveraging its proprietary platforms. It has generated multiple clinical-stage or IND-enabling assets using Pharma.AI, an AI-enabled platform that supports drug discovery and development activities. The company operates under a project-based business model, deriving revenue from out-licensing and collaboration arrangements. Geographically, the company generates revenue from multiple countries, with the majority of the revenue coming from United States.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC is involved in researching, developing, manufacturing and commercializing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing technology that provides rich data, is fast, accessible and easy to use, and which allows the real-time analysis of DNA or RNA. It has developed and brought to market a new generation molecular sensing platform based on nanopores. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing and the platform is also being developed for the analysis of proteins and metabolites. It operates in single segment of providing products and services related to the sale and use of its nanopore-based sensing technology. Geographically its operations are spread across EMES, AMR, and APAC.

Bloomage BioTechnology Corp Ltd manufactures and sells a variety of chemicals and chemical-based products, typically made from hyaluronic acid or sodium hyaluronic acid. The company's products include raw materials, medical products, functional skincare, and functional foods. Raw materials, mainly hyaluronic acid, are used in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics, and food. Medical products span beauty and therapeutic uses, such as viscoelastics, lubricants, fillers, and skin protectors. Skincare items include lotions, creams, and masks, while functional foods feature hyaluronic acid drinks and supplements.

Medable is a Palo Alto-based clinical research company offering a cloud platform for digital and decentralized clinical trials. Its software connects patients, trial sites, and clinical trial teams to support trial design, recruitment, retention, and data quality, with modules covering remote screening, electronic consent, outcomes assessment, and telemedicine. The platform has been used across more than 150 trials in over 60 countries, serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and research organizations.

GemPharmatech Co Ltd is a provider of genetically engineered mouse models and services to preclinical research and development communities. The company develops mouse models with independent intellectual property rights based on technical platforms such as gene editing, stem cells, phenotypic analysis, efficacy analysis, and sterile animals, and carries out one-stop services such as model customization, customized breeding, and functional efficacy analysis.

Syngene International Ltd is a contract research and manufacturing organization in India. It supports research and development programs, from lead generation to clinical and commercial supplies. The Company is engaged in a single operating segment of providing contract research and manufacturing services. The company operates in India, the United States of America and other countries, of which a majority of the revenue is derived from the USA. The company receives revenue by providing contract research and manufacturing services. It offers services such as Oligonucleotide synthesis, Bioinformatics, Clinical development services, polymer research, chemical development, safety assessment, discovery chemistry, discovery biology, and others.