Research Outline

Top Doctors and Pharmaceutical Companies

Goals

Identify the following rankings and provide them in a spreadsheet format, with the data listed on one tab and the sources listed on a second tab for each question:
1. Identify the top 20 pharmaceutical companies globally in terms of overall revenue and valuation in 2019.

2. Identify the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world in terms of revenue strictly from cancer drugs in 2019.

3. Identify the top 20 cancer treatment hospitals in the world based on ratings and/or income.

4. Identify the top 20 cancer oncologist doctors in the world based on ratings and/or income.

5. Identify the top 20 cancer oncologist doctors in the U.S. based on ratings and/or income.

6. Identify the top 20 highest valuation healthcare startups in the world that entered the market and were acquired by another company in the last 10 years. For each, provide the startup name, acquirer name, year founded, exit valuation, and exit year.

7. Identify the top 5 highest valuation digital healthcare startups in the world that entered the market and were acquired by another company in the last 10 years. For each, provide the startup name, acquirer name, year founded, exit valuation, and exit year.

8. Identify the largest 10 healthcare startup investment rounds (top 10 for each round of investments, including Seed, A, B, C, and D) over the last 10 years.

9. Identify the largest 5 digital healthcare startup investment rounds (top 5 for each round of investments, including Seed, A, B, C, and D) over the last 10 years.

Early Findings

  • We have created the following spreadsheet through which we will address all of the above-listed data points. As requested, sources will be listed in a separate tab for each question.
  • We have located a variety of sources that have ranked global pharmaceutical companies by their revenue, which will be detailed in further research.
  • Crunchbase has a leaderboard that will help us identify the largest healthcare and digital healthcare startup investments by round.