Covance Acquisition & Valuation

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.

Aragen Life Sciences is a Hyderabad-based discovery and development organization providing integrated drug discovery, clinical development, and contract manufacturing services across small molecules and biologics for global pharma clients. Formerly GVK Biosciences, it employs 2,400 scientists in facilities totaling 1.2 million square feet in India and the United States. Founded in 2001, Aragen serves top pharmaceutical firms with capabilities in medicinal chemistry, ADME, and GMP manufacturing.

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.

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.

Hangzhou Tigermed Consulting Co Ltd is a China-based Contract Research Organization. The company's offered services include bioanalytical, medical writing, biostatistical analysis, and medical imaging. The therapeutic areas of the company include Infections, Hematology, Cardiovascular, Endocrinology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, and Central Nervous System (CNS) among others.

Specialty fluorochemicals company with refrigerant gases, specialty chemicals and a contract development and manufacturing business for pharma and agro customers. Headquartered in Mumbai.

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 a 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. The company has two operating segments: Minimal Residual Disease and Immune Medicine. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Minimal Residual Disease segment.

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).

Sai Life Sciences Ltd is an innovator-focused, contract research, development, and manufacturing organization. It provides end-to-end services across the drug discovery, development, and manufacturing value chain, for small molecule new chemical entities (NCE), to pharmaceutical innovator companies and biotechnology firms. It possesses both; discovery/contract research (CRO) and chemistry, manufacturing, and control (CMC)/contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) capabilities. The company has only one reportable segment: contract research, development, and manufacturing. Geographically it operates in India as well as Outside India.

Laboratorios Farmaceuticos Rovi SA is a biotechnology company engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of small molecule and specialty biologic drugs. The company has a diversified portfolio of products that it markets in Spain through its specialized sales force of specialist physicians, hospitals and pharmacies. Laboratorios' research and development pipeline is focused on the expansion of applications, indications, and alternative mechanisms of action for heparin-derived products. The company aims to obtain new pharmaceutical products that enable the regular administration of formulations that are administered daily in chronic and prolonged treatments. Its two segments are Manufacturing and Marketing.

Siegfried is a global contract development and manufacturing organization. It derives its revenue primarily from long-term supply agreements with biotechnology and pharmaceutical customers. Siegfried develops and manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients, finished dosage forms (tablets, capsules, sterile vials, ampules, cartridges, and ointments), and viral vectors. The company provides these services throughout the entire drug lifecycle, including chemical and analytical development, pilot manufacturing, and commercial-scale manufacturing. Siegfried has a large global footprint with 13 production sites on three continents.

AbCellera Biologics Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing first-in-class antibody medicines for indications with high unmet medical need. It has built a platform for advancing antibody drug programs that the company believes provides it with a competitive advantage in addressing challenging, high-value targets such as complex transmembrane proteins and novel modalities, including multispecifics and antibody-drug conjugates. Organisation's pipeline includes two drug candidates in clinical development, two development candidates in Investigational New Drug (IND/Clinical Trial Application (CTA)-enabling activities, and more than 20 active discovery programs across multiple modalities and indications.

Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd provides electronic manufacturing services (EMS) to its customers, serving as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) as well as an original design manufacturer (ODM) for various brands. It is engaged in the in manufacturing of electronic goods such as consumer durables, home appliances, lighting products and mobile phones. It operates in single operating segment: Electronics Goods. The company engages in domestic sales of goods as well as exports its products outside India, of which a majority of its revenue is generated from the domestic market.

Asymchem Laboratories Tianjin Co Ltd is a China-based company, a technology-driven provider of Contract Development and manufacturing organization solutions throughout the drug development and manufacturing process. The group provides clinical-stage CDMO solutions, commercial-stage CDMO solutions, and emerging services. Its operations relate to contract development and manufacturing, which focus on innovation and commercial application of pharmaceutical technology. It has geographic areas in the Chinese Mainland and Overseas.

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.