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Healthcare & life sciences · Life-sciences companies and their backers

Map a life-sciences market, and find the companies worth a closer look.

A value-chain map of the market, the companies at each stage and the gaps, with a ranked shortlist on your criteria.

Sourced answers in days, not months: AI research, analyst-checked.

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What you gain

What your team gains.

How the market works

The stages, the companies at each and where the margins sit.

The gaps worth filling

Stages with too few suppliers, and what each gap is worth.

Targets on your criteria

A ranked shortlist, with the evidence beside every score.

Example deliverable

A market, stage by stage.

In one national market, domestic drug manufacturing met under a tenth of drug spending. A stage map shows where the gaps sit.

Value-chain map · Medicine manufacturing · Example CountryIllustrative

Most active ingredients are imported, and sterile fill-finish is short of capacity: the two gaps worth a closer look.

Illustrative value-chain map with the companies at each stage, the domestic share of supply and the gap
StageCompaniesDomestic share of supply%Gap
Active ingredients410Most supply imported
Formulation and fill-finish1235Short of sterile capacity
Packaging and labelling2060None
Distribution880None
Rounded. Example source · as of an example date.
Fictional country, companies and figures.

Recent work · anonymized

Proof from delivered work.

A medicine manufacturing white paper, built to reuse

The challenge
An advisory firm wanted a readable, sourced point of view on pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing to take to its clients.
What we did
Wrote the paper on the subsector’s structure, economics and pressures, in a modular form the firm can reuse for other manufacturing subsectors.
The result
Delivered as thought leadership for the firm’s clients, with a structure ready for its next subsectors.

Research services

Research for each stage of the decision.

Value-chain maps
The market stage by stage, with the companies at each.
Target screens
Companies ranked on your criteria, with the evidence.
Company deep dives
The targets you choose, ready for diligence.
Sector white papers
A sourced point of view for your clients or your committee.

Start with one question

Which market should we map first?

Name the market and your criteria. We start with a first map and go deeper where the gaps are.

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