Bruker Corporation Acquires PepSep (nanoLC columns maker)

Bruker Corporation Acquires Prolab Instruments GmbH

January 19, 2022

Medical Devices

Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) has acquired Prolab Instruments GmbH, a Swiss developer of low-flow, high-precision UHPLC pumps, autosamplers and nano-/cap-LC systems, to strengthen its proteomics and metabolomics workflows. Financial terms were not disclosed; Bruker said the acquisition will accelerate product innovation and improve single-cell and high-sensitivity proteomics capabilities.

Bruker Corporation Acquires NanoString Technologies Business

May 6, 2024

Medical Devices

Bruker Corporation has acquired substantially all assets of NanoString Technologies, Inc. through a court-supervised Chapter 11 asset sale for approximately $392.6 million in cash plus assumption of certain liabilities. The deal, announced April 2024 and closed in late April/early May 2024, brings NanoString's spatial biology and gene-expression product lines into Bruker to preserve customer access, product development, and jobs while expanding Bruker's life‑science instrumentation capabilities.

Bruker Corporation Acquires Canopy Biosciences, LLC

September 11, 2020

Biotechnology

Bruker Corporation has acquired Canopy Biosciences, LLC to strengthen its targeted multi-omics and high-plex biomarker imaging capabilities, adding Canopy's ChipCytometry platform and multi-omics services. Financial terms were not disclosed; Ampersand Capital Partners was identified as Canopy's lead investor.

Bruker Corporation Acquires PhenomeX Inc.

August 17, 2023

Biotechnology

Bruker Corporation agreed to acquire PhenomeX Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at roughly $108 million (purchase price $1.00 per share). PhenomeX — formed from the combination of Berkeley Lights and IsoPlexis and provider of single-cell biology instruments, software and reagents — will be folded into a Bruker subsidiary, marking Bruker’s entry into single-cell biology research tools and complementing its spatial biology offerings.

Biosynth Carbosynth Acquires Pepscan

July 4, 2022

Biotechnology

Biosynth Carbosynth, a KKR- and Ampersand-backed supplier of materials to the life-sciences industry, has acquired Pepscan, a Netherlands-based peptide discovery, optimization and GMP peptide manufacturing specialist. The deal adds Pepscan’s proprietary CLIPS technology and epitope-mapping capabilities to Biosynth’s peptide capabilities (including vivitide) to form a new global Peptide division serving pharma, biotech, diagnostics and cosmetics customers.

Bruker Corporation Acquires Nion

January 3, 2024

Manufacturing

Bruker Corporation has acquired Nion, a Kirkland, Washington developer and manufacturer of high-end scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM), including the UltraSTEM line and advanced EELS technology. The acquisition strengthens Bruker's materials science instrumentation portfolio and provides capabilities for electron diffraction crystallography; Nion reported approximately $8 million in revenue in 2023. Financial terms were not disclosed.