INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Just processed by the SEC on this bright Friday afternoon:TraceLink,a software-as-a-service platform for tracking pharmaceuticals and
trying to weed out counterfeit prescription drugs in the process, has raised $60 million in Series D funding.
The filing shows that 18 firms
participated, including, presumably, Goldman Sachs, whose growth equity arm had led the company $51.5 million Series C round roughly 18
Others of the nine-year-old company earlier investors include FirstMark Capital, Volition Capital and F-Prime Capital.
As TC Jordan Crook
reported at the time of that last round, TraceLink helps pharma companies comply with country-specific track-and-trace requirements through
their supply chain, which has grown increasingly important following the passage of theDrug Supply Chain Security Actin 2013
The consumer-protection measure aims toprotect consumers from exposure to drugs that could be counterfeit, stolen, contaminated or otherwise
harmful.
At the time of its enactment, it also gave the industry one decade before unit-level traceability becomes enforced, meaning the
clock is ticking.
Also working in the favor of TraceLink: opioids, whose spread has been rising since the late &90s, creating ever-growing
pressure to isolate vulnerabilities in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Little wonder the company looks to be preparing for life as a
publicly traded company, including by releasing quarterly revenue and customer growth numbers
Indeed, according to its &growth highlights,& released just a couple of weeks ago, the company first quarter revenue in 2018 was 69 percent
higher than it was in the first quarter of 2017.
