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Velsera at a glance

Velsera is a consolidation of three leading companies within digital diagnostics, bio­informatics, healthcare data and advanced analytics enabling better healthcare, diagnostics, and precision medicine. It unites Seven Bridges, Pierian and UgenTec to advance and accelerate the work of both domains. All companies remain actively engaged with existing customers, enhance current offerings, accelerate new offerings, and bring integrated solutions to market as leading providers of global omics and insights.

Year acquired
2022
Revenue
EUR 36m
Location
Boston
Employees
428
Investment theme
Changing Demographics
SDG alignment

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What are the challenges Velsera addresses

  • 97%

    of global healthcare data generated annually goes unused in siloed systems and clinical workflows, hindering advancement of AI in the secto

  • 90%

    of clinical drug ­development fails

How does Velsera help?

  • Reality today

    Medicine moves too slow. The rapid pace of innovation in technology is not translating into acceleration of precision medicine. Too much time is wasted de-siloing and harmonizing multi-omic data, rather than analyzing and deriving insights.

  • Velsera approach

    Velsera bridges the gap between clinical and discovery by solving fundamental challenges in data assembly and reporting. The company provides integrated software and expert services to transform the dry lab workflow, enabling seamless multi-omic data identification, ingestion, secure patient data management, and analysis.

  • Aspirational future

    A connected data ecosystem revealing the true promise of precision medicine — a continuous flow of knowledge between researchers, scientists, and clinicians around the world, creating insights that radically improve human health.

  • Who is impacted?

    Velsera empowers clinical diagnostic labs, next-generation sequencing assay and equipment manufacturers, biotech and pharma, and non-profit/government agencies to make breakthroughs in precision medicine—ultimately improving patient outcomes.

  • Contribution

    Velsera drives R&D productivity and patient outcomes by accelerating innovation, improving workforce efficiency, and reducing cost of data and technology—helping to get the right medicine, to the right patient, in the fastest possible time.

  • Risks to impact

    This is a nascent and emerging space with constantly changing customer, competitor, and regulatory dynamics. Velsera is developing differentiated multi-omic capabilities and expertise to navigate the complex global environment and scale impact quickly .

KPI reporting

Cumulative reports, including patient reports created

Target 2028: 500,000

Change from '23-'24: 48%

2024
215k
2023
143k
2022
81k

Patient impact includes the 500,000+ multi-omic reports generated for patient care, assay validation, and clinical trials

Top pharma companies leveraging Velsera software and services to accelerate drug discovery

Target 2028: 10/10

2024
7 of 10
2023
8 of 10
2022
N/A

Demonstrates Velsera’s commitment to supporting the leaders in the industry who use Velsera’s software and expert services to accelerate drug discovery

Number of researchers supported by Velsera platforms

Target 2028: 100,000

Change from '23-'24: 12%

2024
28k
2023
25k
2022
N/A

Number of researchers using Velsera platforms to accelerate drug discovery and development, indicating Velsera’s contribution to ecosystem enablement