Bupa Australia
33 Exhibition St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Overview
Bupa is an international healthcare group which offers health insurance and medical subscription products, and run care homes, retirement villages, hospitals, primary care centres and dental clinics. Bupa also provide workplace health services, home healthcare, health assessments and long-term condition management services. The company have over 22m customers in 190 countries. With no shareholders, Bupa invest profits to provide more and better healthcare and fulfil purpose. Bupa employs more than 70,000 people, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, Poland, New Zealand and Chile, as well as Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, and the USA.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Dental
- Fitness
- Health Care
- Medical
Investment portfolio
- George Health
Led · Equity · Mar 2020
George Health is the commercial arm of The George Institute for Global Health and a profit-for-purpose company focused on late-stage development and commercialization of affordable medicines and health technologies. Its businesses include George Clinical, Ellen Medical Devices, George Health Technologies and George Medicines, which targets cardiometabolic conditions. Product efforts cited include a near‑registration medicine to prevent recurrent heart attacks, a late‑stage antihypertensive, an innovative Type 2 diabetes treatment, a low‑cost digital clinical decision tool for multimorbidity, and an ultra‑low‑cost dialysis system. George Medicines develops fixed‑dose combinations of established drugs to improve efficacy, safety and affordability. The company was formed in 2014 and leverages exclusive commercial rights to The George Institute’s intellectual property and scientific expertise. The announcement highlights a $35 million financing to accelerate commercialization and scale-up of these programs.