TH Healthcare & Life Sciences Monthly Top Global M&A Market Update provides a snapshot of key transactions, deal activity and trends shaping the global healthcare and life sciences M&A market.
In our August 2026 edition, we tracked 28 healthcare and life sciences transactions across Healthcare IT, Digital Health, Drug Discovery & Biotech, Healthcare Services, and Medtech.
Key Insights
- Healthcare IT Leads Activity: Healthcare IT accounted for 18 of the 28 transactions tracked in August, representing 64% of total deal activity.
- Digital Health Activity: Digital Health / Telehealth recorded 4 transactions, with activity spanning remote care, virtual healthcare, nutrition, and value-based care platforms.
- Continued Consolidation: Strategic and sponsor-backed buyers continued to pursue bolt-on acquisitions, platform expansions, buyouts and growth investments across the healthcare ecosystem.
- Diverse Investment Activity: Private equity activity remained visible across Healthcare IT, Digital Health, Drug Discovery / Biotech, Healthcare Services and Medtech, alongside continued corporate M&A.
Here are five notable transactions from last month:
- Seva Growth provided $11 million of growth capital to Serif Health |$67 million
- Hg acquired Nourish Care Systems | £20 million
- Thoma Bravo acquired Kneat | CAD 650 million
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals acquired Kashiv BioSciences |$1.1 billion
- Radar Healthcare acquired Cemplicity
The transaction also demonstrates how sponsor-backed platforms are using cross-border acquisitions to fill targeted product gaps.
Source: Pitchbook