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HBI Deals+Insights briefing April 2026: Deals+Insights members

HBI’s April 2026 monthly edition includes HBI’s first ever Healthcare Property Investors Ranking 2026 edition, tracking the main players investing in European healthcare real estate. It also includes the HBI first ever CEO Survey based on responses from C-suite leaders across healthcare organisations.

HBI 2026: Healthcare Property Summit

Speakers at the ‘Healthcare Property Summit’ at HBI 2026 expressed qualified optimism about the state of Europe’s healthcare real estate market. The record €21 billion inflow the continent saw in 2025, boosted by US healthcare REIT Welltower’s ~€8 billion investment into the UK’s care sector, “clearly shows confidence that the market is back,” as Nicolas Sannier, EMEA Healthcare Lead - Valuation & Risk at real estate services firm JLL, put it.

Rantum Capital acquires German medtech firm Tontarra 

Frankfurt-based investment firm Rantum Capital has acquired Tontarra Medizintechnik GmbH, a German developer and manufacturer of high-precision, premium surgical instruments and endoscopy products. This is the seventh investment from Rantum Capital’s mid-market private equity investment vehicle, Rantum Private Equity Fund II, which focuses on the DACH region. 

HBI 2026: Expanding into Saudi Arabia: What actually works?

Saudi Arabia’s healthcare system is evolving rapidly, creating substantial opportunities for private investors and operators. Central to this transformation is Vision 2030, the national plan to diversify the economy and shift healthcare from being predominantly publicly funded, around 70 percent, to being largely driven by the private sector.

Healthbridge buys AI scribe Nora

Healthbridge, a South African health technology company, has acquired Nora, a London-based AI medical scribe. With this acquisition, it will now embed Nora’s AI capabilities directly into its clinical platform.

HBI 2026: Age concerns; Redesigning healthcare to cope with the demands of an ageing population

Speakers on the ‘Age concerns: Redesigning healthcare to cope with the demands of an ageing population’ panel at HBI 2026 painted a rough outline of how healthcare systems need to evolve to cope with ageing populations. Broad areas of focus included: better integration between different types of care, aided by better use of data and tracking of outcomes; more holistic treatment of patients, many of whom have comorbidities, including focusing on and measuring what matters to them; and making full use of the automation capabilities provided by new tech.

Germany’s Adragos Pharma buys Sanofi sterile injectables site in France

German contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) Adragos Pharma, backed by private equity firm FSN Capital and German family office Prange Group, has acquired a large sterile injectables manufacturing site from French pharmaceutical company Sanofi in Maisons-Alfort, near Paris. 

Medicum Group acquires Fertilitas, becomes Estonia’s largest private health fund partner

Medicum Group, an Estonia-based provider of general and specialised medical services backed by pan-Baltic private equity firm Livonia Partners, has acquired AS Fertilitas, a provider of otorhinolaryngology, gynaecology, and surgical care. The combined entity is set to become the largest private contractual partner of the Estonian Health Insurance Fund in specialised medical care, offering diagnostic and treatment services across 18 medical specialties.

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