Banco de Sangue Santa Teresa

Name

Banco de Sangue Santa Teresa

Legal name

GRUPO GESTOR DE SERVIÇOS EM HEMOTERAPIA - GSH

Website

https://doesanguedoevida.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Grupo GSH operates Banco de Sangue Santa Teresa as part of a 12-unit Brazilian blood bank network, collecting, processing, and supplying blood components to 200+ public and private hospitals while managing 100+ transfusion agencies nationwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Blood Banking and Hemotherapy Services

NAICS

Blood and Organ Banks (621991)

SIC

Services-Medical Laboratories (8071)

akta.pro primary industry

Transfusion Medicine & Immunohematology (Blood Bank) (HLAFAMAG)

Keywords

• Blood banking services
• Hemotherapy services
• Platelet apheresis donation
• Hospital blood supply
• Transfusion agency management

Headquarters

HQ city

Ribeirão Preto

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Hospital Blood Supply Services: Supply of blood components and hemocomponents to hospitals (both SUS/public and private partners) for patient transfusions. Services include collection, processing, and transfusion management.
2. Transfusion Agency Management: Operation of transfusion agencies within hospital settings, providing clinical governance and technical management of transfusion processes from donor to patient.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Banco de Sangue Santa Teresa operates as a blood collection and hemotherapy unit that collects voluntary blood and platelet donations from individual donors at physical locations, processes the donations into blood components, and supplies those components along with managed transfusion agency services to hospitals. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo GSH, it serves as one of the network's collection points in Petrópolis and is part of a national platform providing blood management from donor to patient.

Product overview

Banco de Sangue Santa Teresa operates as part of the Grupo GSH network, which manages 9 blood banks and over 100 transfusion agencies across Brazil. The organization offers a unified platform of blood banking services centered around two core offerings: standard blood donation (Doação de Sangue) and platelet donation by apheresis (Doação de Plaquetas por Aférese). Supporting these core services are digital service features including online scheduling (Agendamento Online), online results access (Resultados Online), and press relations. The company operates multiple physical blood bank locations across Brazilian cities including Petrópolis, São Paulo, Araçatuba, Brasília, Ribeirão Preto, Salvador, Santo André, Recife, and Rio de Janeiro.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Doação de Sangue (Blood Donation) Standard blood donation service where volunteers donate approximately 450ml of blood. The collected blood is tested, separated into four components (platelets, red blood cells, plasma, cryoprecipitate), and supplied to patients requiring transfusions.
• Doação de Plaquetas por Aférese (Platelet Donation by Apheresis) Specialized platelet donation using apheresis technology that separates platelets from other blood components and returns the remaining components to the donor. Collects the equivalent of approximately 6-8 conventional donations in a single session lasting about 90 minutes.
• Hospital Blood Supply Services Supply of blood components and hemocomponents to hospitals (both SUS public and private partners) for patient transfusions. Includes collection, processing, and transfusion management.
• Transfusion Agency Management Operation of transfusion agencies within hospital settings, providing clinical governance and technical management of the transfusion process from donor to patient.

Quantifiable outcome

• Blood available for use within 2 days after donation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Fundação Pró-Sangue: Public blood bank affiliated with the São Paulo State Health Department, operating in the same metropolitan region as multiple Grupo GSH units. Comparable as a regional blood collection and supply operator in Brazil, though publicly funded rather than commercial.
• Instituto Estadual de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti (HEMORIO): Rio de Janeiro state blood center that operates blood collection and supply in the same region as Grupo GSH's two Serum units. Comparable as a regional blood bank operator serving hospitals, but publicly funded rather than commercial.
• Fundação Hemominas: Minas Gerais state blood center operating blood collection, processing, and hospital supply across a large Brazilian state. Comparable to Grupo GSH as a regional blood bank operator serving hospitals and managing transfusion logistics.
• Fundação de Hematologia e Hemoterapia de Pernambuco (Hemope): Pernambuco state blood bank that collects, processes, and distributes blood components in the same Northeast region as Grupo GSH's Recife Hemato unit. Comparable as a regional blood bank serving public and private hospitals.

Direct peers

• Vitalant: Largest independent nonprofit blood collector in the United States, operating a national network of donation centers and serving thousands of hospitals. Directly comparable to Grupo GSH because it operates multi-region blood collection, component processing, and hospital supply at scale with similar clinical lab workflows.
• OneBlood: Large U.S. nonprofit blood center serving hospitals across the Southeast, with integrated collection, processing, and distribution. Comparable to Grupo GSH as a multi-site regional blood bank operator with apheresis and component processing capabilities.
• Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein: Major São Paulo-based private hospital operating its own blood bank and hemotherapy services. Directly comparable to Grupo GSH because it competes for hospital blood supply and transfusion management in the same Brazilian private healthcare market with similar high-complexity hemotherapy offerings.
• New York Blood Center: Large U.S. blood center with collection, component processing, and transfusion medicine research serving hospitals across the Northeast. Comparable to Grupo GSH as a high-complexity hemotherapy provider with reference laboratory capabilities.
• Hospital Sírio-Libanês: Premium São Paulo private hospital that maintains its own blood bank serving complex hematology, oncology, and transplant cases. Comparable to Grupo GSH because it provides in-hospital transfusion services and competes for the same private-hospital blood supply relationships.

Broad incumbents

• American Red Cross Biomedical Services: Largest U.S. blood collection organization operating nationwide as part of a broader humanitarian mandate. Comparable to Grupo GSH as a scaled multi-region blood bank operator, though with broader mission scope and nonprofit structure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/doesangue.bsst
• Instagraminstagram.com/doesanguepetropolis
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/banco-de-sangue-santa-teresa

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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