See our Investments in the Past Year
Synteract
Synteract – Carlsbad, CA
Synteract is a Contract Research Organization, offering a complete range of clinical development and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. Synteract focuses on reducing the time, cost, and risk of bringing new pharmaceutical products to market. Synteract’s core competency centers on IT and data management of clinical trials, a crucial piece of the drug development process. Since inception, Synteract has continually sought to expand its service offerings from its core business of data management, centering on the collection, management, analysis, and summarization of data collected from clinical trials. Synteract currently offers services in data management, clinical monitoring, biostatistics, project management, safety surveillance, and IT applications. In 2013, Synteract acquired HCR and renamed the company SynteractHCR.
Logical Images
Logical Images – Rochester, NY
Logical Images is a medical informatics company that has developedVisualDx, a clinical decision support software system designed to be used by non-expert clinicians at the point of care to meet the need for fast, easy and accurate visual identification. VisualDx helps the clinician develop a differential diagnosis by inputting observations of the patient into the software and evaluating the medical images of appropriate diagnostic options. The current product addresses variability of over 700 diagnoses in several market segments including infectious disease, dermatology, oral and eye disease, emergency medicine, and bioterrorism preparedness. The current markets targeted for VisualDx are Public Health, Hospitals, Military, and Medical Education.
FutureHealth
FutureHealth Corporation – Hunt Valley, MD
Acquired by Nationwide Insurance Company January 2006 – FutureHealth Corporation provides disease management services to TPAs and self-insured employers. Chronic disease management for employees and their dependents is one of the largest and most visible components of health care cost for self-insured employers. The programs incorporate interventions that improve patient self-management and optimize outcomes, and are based on the most up-to-date, evidence-based clinical guidelines.
Affinity Express
Affinity Express – Elgin, IL
Acquired by Ayala Corporation January 2007 – Affinity Express is the leading provider of outsourced graphic services for the printing, embroidery and promotional products industries. Affinity formats graphics, photos and written copy to produce digital, production-ready files for printing, posting to web sites, embroidery, screen-printing or other output, covering the workflow between the concept and printing or production. The Company offers services 24/7/365, allowing clients to expand their own internal design capacity under a variable cost structure or per-project basis and realize all the benefits of outsourcing.
Techbooks
TechBooks – Fairfax, VA
Recapitalization by American Capital August 2005 – TechBooks is global company that delivers high-quality composition services, a front-end XML workflow process that speeds cross-media projects, and data conversion services for turning pre-published archives into profitable digital content. TechBooks solutions are used by many leading educational, professional, corporate, and financial publishers. The Company has an offshore business model that employs skilled professionals in India to prepare content for large projects cost-effectively, coordinated by U.S.-based project managers. In 2007, TechBooks changed its name to Aptara, Inc.
Mycroft
Mycroft – St. Louis, MO
Mycroft provides IT and business process management solutions, identity and access management solutions, and managed infrastructure services to large organizations in the financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, government, and aerospace and defense industries.
Brainshark
Brainshark – Waltham, MA
Brainshark provides web-based applications that enable users to communicate more quickly and effectively using voice-enriched on demand presentations that can be created and viewed at each person’s own schedule and convenience. Brainshark excels at uniquely offering the ease of use that businesspeople want with the enterprise-class capabilities that Fortune 1000 companies need in terms of scalability, feature sets, security, flexibility, reporting and tracking, and the ability to integrate with other applications and business processes.