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Digital publishing platform serving the scientific community

Vespa Capital acquired SelectScience in 2021

Business Profile

SelectScience is a leading digital marketing, information and peer-to-peer review platform, which publishes trusted digital content to the scientific community to help drive well informed buying decisions around their laboratory requirements and stay up to date with the latest technological developments.
Global audience of laboratory-based scientists, academic researchers and subject matter experts span a wide variety of scientific disciplines covering life sciences, drug discovery and testing, clinical diagnostics, environmental research, as well as R&D within the food and beverage sector.
The SelectScience platform allows scientists and scientific equipment manufacturers to demonstrate their work through interactive online content, providing specifiers of scientific equipment with independent and expert information to make informed purchasing decisions.

Key Strengths

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Vespa Capital invested in SelectScience in January 2021 attracted by its quality leading digital offering and attractive underlying dynamics within the scientific and medical equipment market. Growth is expected to be driven by a continued focus on expanding the breadth and depth of the audience and leveraging the feature rich content to create value for customers in the scientific community.

SelectScience was founded in 1998 and has established an enviable market position and brand reputation, as a leading provider of quality digital marketing solutions to customers which include 21 of the top 25 manufacturers of scientific laboratory equipment.
High quality and ambitious management team, who have successfully led the business through a period of rapid growth and product expansion.
SelectScience has experienced enviable growth driven by a collaborative approach to developing tailor-made campaigns which meet their customers digital marketing goals.

SelectScience has a proven track record of developing new products such as webinars and virtual summits to ensure that knowledge sharing, communication and collaboration continues in light of the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
SelectScience has built an established and diversified global member base of scientists, academics and laboratory technicians who are actively involved in the procurement and specification of scientific and laboratory equipment.

What SelectScience says

At SelectScience we have a very strong vision of where we want to go and the team at Vespa Capital have been very supportive where we have needed help. They are a fantastic team to work with, the dialogue is very open and I would recommend them to others.”

Kerry Parker, CEO, SelectScience