Company | SPT Labtech

Real-world challenges. Ingenious solutions.

SPT Labtech is a team of exceptionally skilled scientists, engineers and business innovators. We have one overarching mission: to work together to accelerate life science research. Through our innovative solutions and state-of-the-art tools, we believe we can make a real difference to human health.

Collaboration is at the heart of how we work. We listen to our customers and understand the challenges they face, which is why scientists and researchers globally trust us to develop exceptional, personalized solutions. We collaborate internally drawing on our teams’ breadth of expertize, from deep application knowledge to cutting-edge engineering and design. It means that when we recognize a need, we can innovate to meet it and take that idea from initial concept, to prototype, to final manufacture and market.

As an example, we’re helping drive forward challenges within genomics to resize life science with our work on miniaturization, accelerating breakthroughs and pioneering ideas in next generation sequencing. Working together with scientists, we’re achieving results not possible in larger volumes.

A broader portfolio. Bigger breakthroughs.

With the acquisition by EQT Private Equity in 2022, we are building on our strong foundation of organic and acquisition-driven growth to pursue an ambitious strategic vision of innovation, geographic expansion, and targeting of new markets to address the evolving needs of the life science community.

EQT's acquisition from Battery Ventures follows a period since 2018 during which we diversified and strengthened the SPT Labtech portfolio, allowing us to service an even broader range of needs for our customers.

In August 2019, the introduction of chameleon^®, which enables the scalable application of cryo-electron microscopy to protein research and drug discovery, took place alongside our acquisition of Quantifoil and their portfolio of world-renowned support foils for electron microscopy. By bringing together this wealth of expertize we have established ourselves as the market leaders for next generation cryo-electron microscopy sample preparation.

In the summer of 2020, we strengthened our position in Asia with the acquisition of LBD Life Sciences, a leading instrumentation supplier in China, positioning us to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the world's fastest growing research community. We also opened an office in Japan, building on long-standing partnerships with Japanese life science distributors, enabling us to meet the needs of the community more effectively and helping to accelerate and elevate their research.

In 2021, we were able to expand our leading range of liquid handling technologies through the acquisition of Apricot Designs, a Californian company with a 30-year track record in supporting increasingly complex laboratory research requirements. As an industry leader in air displacement technology this has complemented our established positive displacement liquid handling range to create a broader and stronger portfolio. This acquisition also brings with it a successful OEM business supplying liquid handling technology to a wide range of life science partners.

2021 also saw the acquisition of BioMicroLab, a robotics automation provider, complementing our capabilities in modular, automated sample storage systems.

Combining these individual strengths within a single portfolio means we can continue to develop breakthrough instruments that not only meet today’s tough life science challenges but empower research success across an even broader spectrum in the future.

Our products are helping leading scientists improve the speed and precision of their research

"The Mosquito transferred our ability to set up protein crystallization screens. The work of a day can be done in minutes."

— David Egan, Core Life Analytics

"From a user experience, Mosquito LV is a reliable and robust machine. The precision and reproducibility delivered by the instruments is exceptional, a perfect fit for our single-cell protocols.”

— Andres Gonzalez, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich

"The mosquito is wonderful, very easy to use once it is set up and calibrated correctly. I've been using it to dispense small volumes into 384 well plates - so happy not to do it by hand!"

— Hayley Bennett, Genentech

"The dragonfly has been a game changer in our lab. We have a time-sensitive application in which reagents must be dispensed to a 384 well reaction plate in under 2 minutes. The dragonfly is the perfect, rapid fire, contact free liquid handler for the job! Perfect positional and volume accuracy every time."

— Mike Moreau, Genosity