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Sword Health acquires Germany’s Kaia Health

Sword Health, a US-based AI care company focused on digital treatment for muscle, joint and pelvic health conditions, is acquiring Germany’s Kaia Health in a deal valued at $285 million.

FREE BLOG What’s in store for pharma in 2026?

Last week I went to a breakfast briefing hosted by multinational bank ING, where Stephen Farrell, Global Lead for Pharma & Healthcare, and Diederik Stadig, Healthcare and Technology Economist, talked about where the pharma industry might be heading in 2026.  Their view was simple: if 2025 was about disruption, 2026 will be when the real effects of Trump’s policies start to show.

Gilde Healthcare-backed medtech group acquires Rudischhauser 

Netherlands-based thematic healthcare investor Gilde Healthcare has acquired Rudischhauser, a Germany-based surgical instruments and implants contract manufacturer, through its specialist contract manufacturing group for surgical instruments, Surgical Precision Instruments (SPI). 

PE firm Gimv stops new life sciences investments

Gimv, the Belgian private equity firm listed on Euronext Brussels, has announced it will stop making new life sciences investments. The firm plans to focus instead on growing its Anchor Investments (long-term partnerships with growth companies) and its four main platforms: Consumer, Healthcare, Smart Industries, and Sustainable Cities, which it sees as offering stronger growth potential, especially with ongoing digital changes.

Greek bank Piraeus interested in Bioiatriki to form integrated payor-provider

Piraeus, Greece’s largest bank, has approached Bioiatriki, Greece’s largest for-profit primary care group, with the intention of acquiring it and integrating it with the insurer it bought last year, Ethniki Insurance, to form a major payor-provider which would become the largest for-profit healthcare provider in the country. 

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