NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Agilent Technologies said yesterday that it has inked a deal to buy Velocity11, a private life science lab technology company, for an undisclosed sum.
Agilent believes the acquisition will strengthen its automated sample-preparation offerings across a broad range of applications.
Velocity11 designs, makes, and markets robotic solutions including stand-alone, bench-top, and multi-armed robotic systems. The company also markets software designed to control the robotics in its products.
Agilent said it would offer jobs to “substantially all of Velicity11’s approximately 150 employees worldwide.”
Velocity11 is based in Menlo Park, Calif., with a second office in Melbourn, Hertfordshire, UK, and has field sales and support “throughout the US and Western Europe.”
Nick Roelofs, Agilent's VP of life science systems and solutions, said the acquisition will help the firm offer automated solutions that can “speed drug discovery and genetic research.”
Financial terms of the agreement were not released.