GigCapital2 (NYSE: GIX), a Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Private-to-Public Equity (PPE)™ corporation, today announced that it has entered into two separate definitive business combination agreements with each of UpHealth Holdings, Inc. (“UpHealth”), one of the largest national and international digital healthcare providers, and Cloudbreak Health, LLC, (“Cloudbreak”), a leading unified telemedicine and video medical interpretation solutions provider, respectively, to form a combined entity that will create one of the only profitable, publicly traded, comprehensive global digital healthcare companies. Upon the closing of the transaction, the combined company will be named UpHealth, Inc. and will continue to be listed on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol “UPH”.
Following the combination, UpHealth will be a leading global digital healthcare company serving an entire spectrum of healthcare needs and will be established in fast growing sectors of the digital health industry. With its combinations, UpHealth is positioned to reshape healthcare across the continuum of care by providing a single, integrated platform of best-in-class technologies and tech-enabled services essential to personalized, affordable, and effective care. UpHealth’s multifaceted and integrated platform provides health systems, payors, and patients with a frictionless digital front door that connects evidence-based care, workflows, and services. Upon closing the pending mergers and the combination with Cloudbreak, UpHealth will be organized across four capabilities at the intersection of population health management and telehealth: Integrated Care Management, Global Telehealth, Digital Pharmacy, and Tech-enabled Behavioral Health.
- Integrated Care Management – Thrasys Inc. (“Thrasys”) has reinvested $100M of customer revenue to develop its innovative SyntraNet Integrated Care technology platform. The platform integrates and organizes information, provides advanced population-based analytics and predictive models, and automates workflows across health plans, health systems, government agencies, and community organizations. The platform plans to add at least 40 million lives to UpHealth in the next 3 years to support global initiatives to transform healthcare.
- The Global Telehealth Platform will consist of a U.S. division and an international division that, together, are anticipated to grow revenues by an additional $47 million in 2021.
- The U.S. division of Global Telehealth following the combination, Cloudbreak, is a leading unified telemedicine platform performing more than 100,000 encounters per month on over 14,000 video endpoints at over 1,800 healthcare venues nationwide. The Cloudbreak Platform offers telepsychiatry, telestroke, tele-urology, and other specialties, all with integrated language services for Limited English Proficient and Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing patients. Cloudbreak’s innovative, secure platform removes both distance and language barriers to improve patient care, satisfaction, and outcomes. Cloudbreak provides more than one and a half million minutes of telemedicine consultation each month simplifying how providers care for patients, putting a full care continuum at their fingertips 24/7 and enabling local healthcare systems to build their integrated telemedicine strategy from their digital front-door to in-hospital care and beyond.
- The international division of Global Telehealth following the combination, Glocal Healthcare Systems Pvt. Ltd (“Glocal”), is a global provider of virtual consultations and local care spanning the care continuum. It has designed proven, affordable and accessible solutions for the delivery of healthcare services globally. The platform provides a full suite of primary and acute care services, including an app-based telemedicine suite, digital dispensaries, and hospital centers. The platform has signed several country-wide contracts with government ministries across India, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
- Digital Pharmacy – MedQuest Pharmacy (“MedQuest”) is a leading full-service manufactured and compounded pharmacy licensed in all 50 states that pre-packages and ships medications direct to patients. The company also offers lab services and testing, nutraceuticals, nutritional supplements, education for medical practitioners, and training for organizations, associations, and groups. MedQuest serves an established network of 13,000 providers. The MedQuest platform is poised for strong growth via targeted product expansion and expansive eCommerce capabilities for the entire provider network. UpHealth and MedQuest have mutually executed a merger agreement, the closing of which is awaiting regulatory approval for the transfer of licenses expected by the end of 2020 or early 2021.
- Tech-enabled Behavioral Health – TTC Healthcare, Inc. (“TTC Healthcare”) and Behavioral Health Services LLC (“BHS”) offer comprehensive services specializing in acute and chronic outpatient behavioral health, rehabilitation and substance abuse, both onsite and via telehealth. UpHealth’s Behavioral Health capabilities have dramatically expanded use of telehealth for medical and clinical services and are leveraging UpHealth’s platform to increase volumes across its services. UpHealth and TTC Healthcare have mutually executed a merger agreement, the closing of which is awaiting regulatory approval for the transfer of licenses expected prior to the end of 2020.
Following the consummation of the transactions, UpHealth will have agreements to deliver digital healthcare in more than 10 countries globally. These various companies are expected to generate approximately $115 million in revenue and over $13 million of EBITDA in 2020 and following the combination, UpHealth expects to generate over $190 million in revenue and $24 million in EBITDA in 2021.
“UpHealth is a global, digital health services and technology pioneer. It combines primary care with integrated care management and overlays pharmacy and behavioral telehealth services to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ platform to improve health outcomes, quality, costs, and patient experience. The business combination strengthens UpHealth to further penetrate the broad and fast-growing digital health and telehealth market.” – Chirinjeev Kathuria, MD – Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of UpHealth
“Combining with UpHealth and its complementary suite of solutions will further our ability to power healthcare’s digital transformation and resolve disparities on a massive scale. We are proud to be part of this mission together.” – Jamey Edwards – CEO & Co-Founder of Cloudbreak Health
“We are excited to partner with UpHealth and Cloudbreak through our Private-to-Public Equity (PPE)™ platform. The combined UpHealth has all the hallmarks we look for in a successful partnership, including a world-class executive team and an exceptional business model with scale, strong growth, and profitability margins in the digital healthcare industry. We are particularly excited about the opportunity to provide our Mentor-Investor™ discipline in partnership with an exceptional global leadership team, as well as participate in a high-tech integrated platform that comprises a variety of cutting edge disciplines, such as the Artificial Intelligence platform being developed by Global Telehealth in conjunction with the tech‑enabled Behavioral Health divisions. We are confident UpHealth is at the inflection point and positioned for accelerated growth.” – Dr. Avi Katz – Founder and Executive Chairman of GigCapital2
“Recognizing the significant opportunity in the continued transformation of healthcare through the use of digital health, we identified UpHealth as the only company that truly connects multiple parts of the healthcare continuum through technology. We believe that UpHealth is reshaping the future of healthcare and disrupting massive markets and critical needs through its integrated global health platform.” – Dr. Raluca Dinu, Chief Executive Officer and President of GigCapital2
Leadership Team
Following the combinations, Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria and Dr. Avi Katz will serve as co-chairmen of the board of directors of UpHealth, which will include an additional 7 members. The executive team will be led by Al Gatmaitan (co-Chief Executive Officer), Ramesh Balakrishnan (co-Chief Executive Officer), Syed Sabahat Azim, MD (Chief Executive Officer, International), Martin Beck (Chief Financial Officer), Jamey Edwards (Chief Operations Officer), Jeffery Bray (Chief of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs), Mariya Pylypiv (Chief Strategy Officer) and Azfar Malik (President Behavioral Health). Executive team bios are available at www.UpHealthInc.com.
Transaction Overview
The business combinations were unanimously approved by the boards of directors of all parties, valuing the combined company at a combined pro forma enterprise value of approximately $1.35 billion. The proposed business combinations are expected to be completed in Q1 2021, subject to, among other things, the approval by GigCapital2 stockholders, regulatory approvals, and the satisfaction or waiver of other customary closing conditions.
Additional information about the proposed transaction, including copies of the merger agreements and investor presentation, will be provided in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by GigCapital2 today with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov.
Advisors
Needham & Company serves as exclusive financial advisor, Husch Blackwell LLP serves as legal counsel, and Plante Moran, PLLC serves as auditors to UpHealth. Sidley Austin LLP serves as legal counsel to Cloudbreak. Nomura Securities International, Inc. serves as Exclusive Financial and Capital Markets Advisor, DLA Piper LLP (US) serves as legal counsel, and BPM LLP serves as auditors to GigCapital2.
About UpHealth Holdings, Inc
UpHealth is a global comprehensive digital health technology and tech-enabled services platform (the “Platform”) that empowers providers, health systems and payors globally to manage care for people with complex medical, behavioral and social needs, while dramatically improving access to primary care. UpHealth owns Thrasys and BHS and almost half of Glocal, with its acquisition of all or almost all of the remaining half pending Indian regulatory approval expected prior to the closing of the combination with GigCapital2. Following the combination, including with Cloudbreak, UpHealth will be comprised of four service lines that have been strategically selected to deliver patient and provider-centric digital health technologies across the continuum of care and provide a full complement of services for managing the most challenging chronic conditions. The Platform improves patient access to timely and personalized digital care by delivering a complete set of care management tools, remote monitoring applications, full-service ePharmacy delivery, behavioral health solutions, and tech-enabled primary care. UpHealth is building its services to provide a digital marketplace of healthcare services. Following the combination, UpHealth will have offices in Delray Beach, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Columbus, and Kolkata.
For more information, visit www.UpHealthInc.com.
About Cloudbreak Health
Cloudbreak Health (www.cloudbreak.us) revolutionized patient and provider communication with the introduction of video remote interpreting (VRI), establishing Cloudbreak as a pioneer in telehealth technology. Cloudbreak Health continues to innovate with Cloudbreak Telehealth Solutions, including telepsychiatry, telestroke, tele-quarantine, remote patient monitoring and other specialties. Committed to overcoming healthcare disparities and bringing language access to the point of care, Cloudbreak Health seamlessly integrates their language access solution, Martti, into a host of platforms, including Epic, Zoom, and Caregility. Performing more than 1.5 million minutes of telemedicine consultation each month on over 14,000 video endpoints at 1,800+ healthcare locations nationwide, Cloudbreak Telehealth simplifies how providers care for patients, putting a full care continuum at their fingertips 24/7. Follow Cloudbreak on Twitter @cloudbreakhlth or the hashtag #HumanizeHealthcare.
About GigCapital Global and GigCapital2, Inc.
GigCapital Global (“GigCapital”) is a Private-to-Public Equity (PPE)™ technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) focused investment group led by an affiliated team of technology industry corporate executives and entrepreneurs, and TMT operational and strategic experts in the private and public markets, including substantial, success-proven M&A and IPO activities. The group deploys a unique Mentor-Investors™ methodology to partner with exceptional TMT companies, managed by dedicated and experienced entrepreneurs. The GigCapital Private-to-Public Equity (PPE) companies (also known as blank check companies or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)) offer financial, operational and executive mentoring to U.S. and overseas private, and non-U.S. public companies, in order to accelerate their path from inception and as a privately-held entity into the growth-stage as a publicly traded company in the U.S. The partnership of GigCapital with these companies continues through an organic and roll-up strategy growth post the transition to a public company. GigCapital was launched in 2017 with the vision of becoming the lead franchise in incepting and developing TMT Private-to-Public Equity (PPE) companies. For more information, visit www.gigcapitalglobal.com or https://www.gigcapital2.com/.
