Globus Prepared for Trek with $110m from Clarus-led Group

Clarus Ventures placed an unusually big bet for the orthopedics industry by leading a syndicate of private equity investors in a $110 million Series E round in Globus Medical Inc. But the four-year-old company is well ahead of its peers with more than $100 million in sales and a line of fusion products on the market. The company faces the challenge of introducing a new line of non-fusion and biomaterial products if it hopes to grow into the industry leader its investors expects it to be.

Investors in orthopedics traditionally have backed companies with technologies compelling enough to draw the interest of giants on the industry’s mountaintop—Medtronic Inc. ’s Medtronic Sofamor Danek , Johnson & Johnson ’s Depuy Spine Inc. , Synthes-Stratec ’s Synthes USA , Stryker Corp., and Zimmer Spine (a division of Zimmer Holdings Inc.’s Centerpulse AG)--controllers of 70% of the $4.3 billion US spine market. (See "The Hot Trend in Spine: Motion Preservation Mania," Medtech Insight, June 2007 Also see "The Hot Trend in Spine: Motion Preservation Mania" - Medtech Insight, 1 June, 2007..)

Last month, Clarus Ventures and a syndicate of private equity investors opted instead to invest heavily—unusually heavily for the orthopedics...

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