Healthcare

Gimv Healthcare wants to make a sustainable contribution to continuous healthcare improvements across the healthcare value chain.

Gimv is convinced of the importance of a dynamic healthcare sector, fully focused on qualitative, accessible and affordable care. Moreover, good patient care, whether preventative, curative or rehabilitative, is impossible without also considering the people who provide it, by freeing them up from non-care tasks as much as possible, and by continuing to embrace innovation, digitization and automation.

Therefore, we also focus on the one hand on supporting innovative service providers to the broader healthcare ecosystem and on the other hand on companies that bring (new) healthcare products to the market that make a real difference for the patients, the healthcare staff, the care providers, but also for the healthcare system and broader society.

As a socially responsible investor with decades of experience, Gimv firmly believes that private equity can help solve the many problems currently being faced in healthcare. Gimv has successfully applied innovation, out-of-the-box thinking and change management in several Healthcare growth stories, amongst others through a constructive dialogue with all stakeholders.

The Gimv Healthcare team has the expertise, experience and network to help. In short, all the ingredients to build leading Healthcare companies.

Bart Diels

Head of Healthcare

Why Gimv Healthcare?

International exposure
To many healthcare ecosystems & business models, in different company life cycles, including more entrepreneurial settings
Growth oriented
Buy-and-build platforms, organic growth through international, capacity or product portfolio/ service offering expansion, strategic partnerships, etc.
Human capital development
Board & management strengthening, succession planning, recruitment & retention, etc.
Financial & operational excellence
Building strong finance & ops teams supporting & driving the business, improved (mgt) reporting, KPI setting, production automation, IT upgrades & digitalisation, etc.
Sustainability maturity
Decarbonisation, energy efficiency, waste management, etc.

Investment focus

Care providers and patient services
In-/outpatient clinics, diagnostic services, nursing care, homecare, consumer health and pharmacies & labs, ...
Healthcare products
Drugs (Rx, Gx and OTC), medTech (consumables, devices, equipment) and functional nutrition & ingredients, ...
B2B services & software
R&D (CROs, CDOs), CMOs, regulatory services, value-added distribution, specialty software, digital health, ...

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Investment criteria

Ambitious and innovative companies with a solid market position and strong growth potential.

Small to medium-sized companies with capital requirements of EUR 5 to 75 million.

Companies headquartered in the Benelux region, France or DACH countries.

Companies with strong management and a clear corporate vision of social added value.

Arseus Medical

United in patient care! United in patient care! United in patient care!

United in patient care!

In 2017, Gimv invested in Arseus Medical, a distributor of medical equipment, implants and consumables to the medical sector and a value-add provider of related services. The company continued to grow into a Benelux region player, with revenue more than doubling to around EUR 70 million in 2022.

Arseus Medical plays a leading role in consolidating the fragmented Benelux medical distribution market. Six acquisitions since Gimv’s entry have further strengthened its product portfolio, particularly in surgical solutions across various therapeutic areas, complemented by innovative distribution entrusted by OEMs. By doing so, Arseus Medical is actively contributing to continued innovation in the medical field.

Gimv is a member of the European Healthcare Investor Association.

It aims to promote a better understanding of private equity in the healthcare sector which will enable its members to invest capital and expertise into building great healthcare businesses and generating returns for investors.
Members take a long-term approach to investing in private companies, bringing not only capital but also entrepreneurial spirit, innovation and expertise.
This commitment is in line with Gimv Healthcare's goal of contributing to continuous improvement across the healthcare value chain.