Generating superior returns by investing in and building sustainable and leading healthcare businesses
Impilo at a glance
Impilo is a Nordic investment company focused solely on investments in companies operating in the pharmaceutical, medical technology, healthcare services and other health related industries. Our starting point is that our portfolio companies must contribute to a positive and sustainable development of the societies and markets in which they operate in order to remain successful in the long term.
This is a conviction that is deeply embedded in our investment strategy and inspires our approach to investments and how we interact with our portfolio companies. In this way, Impilo invests in people’s opportunities to enjoy healthier lives in the future.
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Investment focus and criteria
- Impilo targets investments in companies that contribute with positive health impact and/or to the sustainability of healthcare systems
- Target companies active in the full spectrum of healthcare verticals
- Focus on private majority investments, with enterprise values of EUR 50m-200m, but minority and public investments can be considered subject to relevant governance rights
- Targets must have potential to double operating profit over 5 years and outgrow relevant markets
The Impilo Health Diamond
The Impilo Health Diamond represents the four key health impact dimensions that we take into consideration in all investments. Any new investment must align with or have the potential to align with one or more of the dimensions to be deemed attractive.
Improve quality of care
We look for companies with products or services that:
- Provide positive treatment outcomes for patients and/or individuals
- Enable companies in the healthcare system to provide higher quality of care, e.g. better patient outcomes and improved quality of treatments
- Are tailored to the specific needs of individual patients and customers
- Improve processes and quality standards in the broader healthcare value chain, e.g. by ensuring products are safe to use compared to alternative treatments
Increase availability of care
We look for companies with products or services that:
- Make healthcare services more easily available or accessible to the people who need them at the time they need them (e.g. by increasing opening hours or opening of new facilities in unserved areas)
- Bring novel treatments to people who did not have access to these treatments before
- Provide scalable solutions (e.g. digital health), which reduce the dependency on in-clinic care
- Help increase capacity within the healthcare sector (e.g. new facilities, increase in healthcare workers etc.)
Lower cost of care
We look for companies with products or services that introduce critical efficiencies and cost-saving benefits compared to alternatives – either directly for patients/individuals and/or for healthcare companies or organisations that purchase them.
Prevent need of care
- Help people not get sick in the first place, e.g., through improved lifestyle choices (exercise, nutrition, etc.) – Primary prevention
- Help detect current or potential diseases early on and prevent them from getting worse – Secondary prevention
Improve quality of care
We look for companies with products or services that:
- Provide positive treatment outcomes for patients and/or individuals
- Enable companies in the healthcare system to provide higher quality of care, e.g. better patient outcomes and improved quality of treatments
- Are tailored to the specific needs of individual patients and customers
- Improve processes and quality standards in the broader healthcare value chain, e.g. by ensuring products are safe to use compared to alternative treatments
Increase availability of care
We look for companies with products or services that:
- Make healthcare services more easily available or accessible to the people who need them at the time they need them (e.g. by increasing opening hours or opening of new facilities in unserved areas)
- Bring novel treatments to people who did not have access to these treatments before
- Provide scalable solutions (e.g. digital health), which reduce the dependency on in-clinic care
- Help increase capacity within the healthcare sector (e.g. new facilities, increase in healthcare workers etc.)
Lower cost of care
We look for companies with products or services that introduce critical efficiencies and cost-saving benefits compared to alternatives – either directly for patients/individuals and/or for healthcare companies or organisations that purchase them.
Prevent need of care
- Help people not get sick in the first place, e.g., through improved lifestyle choices (exercise, nutrition, etc.) – Primary prevention
- Help detect current or potential diseases early on and prevent them from getting worse – Secondary prevention
Impilo sustainability handbook
At Impilo, we are on a mission to invest in and build leading healthcare companies. We consider sustainability a central component of this commitment and believe that the leading healthcare companies of tomorrow are also the most sustainable healthcare companies
We are inspired by internationally acknowledged sustainability principles when developing our internal frameworks
News
Impilo invests in Avia Pharma – a leading OTC and Rx pharmaceutical platform
Impilo has closed its investment in Avia Pharma Holding AB, a Sweden-based OTC and Rx pharmaceutical company with presence in the Nordics and Germany. Impilo now partners with two of the co-founders and management of Avia. Our ambition is to build a leading Northern European OTC / Rx platform through organic and inorganic growth.
Loargys® (pegzilarginase) approved in the EU for treatment of arginase 1 deficiency (ARG1-D)
Immedica today announces that the European Commission has granted marketing authorization of Loargys® (pegzilarginase) for the treatment of arginase 1 deficiency (ARG1-D), also known as hyperargininemia, in adults, adolescents and children aged 2 years and older. The approval follows the positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on October 12.
Scantox enters transformational acquisition of QPS Neuropharmacology
Today Scantox, together with its majority owner Impilo, has agreed to acquire the neuropharmacology division of QPS Austria GmbH (“QPS Neuro” or “the Company”) ultimately owned by QPS Holdings LLC. QPS Neuro is a leading drug discovery Contract Research Organization (CRO) that specializes in neurodegenerative, rare diseases and mental disorders.
Impilo invests in Stille
Impilo looks forward to supporting Stille on its continued growth journey, enabling improved quality and efficiency in surgical procedures across the globe!