Waters is buying laboratory software developer Andrew Alliance having backed its 2018 series C round with fellow corporates Inpeco and Tecan.

Scientific analysis tool supplier Waters has agreed to buy one of its portfolio companies, Switzerland-based automated laboratory equipment developer Andrew Alliance, for an undisclosed sum.

Founded in 2011, Andrew Alliance supplies software-defined robotic pipettes that automatically extract and discharge liquids using the exact parameters of scientific research experiments.

The pipettes will augment Waters’ lab measurements product range, specifically extending its appeal in mass spectrometry: the scientific procedure that separates molecules and other fragments according to their mass.

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