HicisLab

What HicisLab does

HicisLab is a small pathological anatomy (anatomia patológica) laboratory operating in Porto, Portugal, legally constituted as Laboratório Rodrigues Pereira S.A — a Portuguese sociedade anónima (limited company) founded in 2018. The firm provides medical diagnostic testing and pathology analysis services to healthcare providers and medical institutions, conducted from a single facility at Rua Gonçalo Cristóvão 119, 4000-268 Porto. Operations are anchored by Dr. Rodrigues Pereira, a specialist pathologist whose individual expertise underpins the diagnostic offering; the entity operates with a headcount of approximately 6 employees.

The business model is a direct service delivery model targeting enterprise (healthcare) buyers on a regional basis. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and operates on a contact-based quotation mechanism. Distribution is exclusively through direct laboratory services, with no digital channel, mobile app, API, or technology platform exposed. The website (hicislab.eu) functions primarily as a contact point and quality/policy disclosure vehicle rather than a transactional platform. The entity has secured participation in a publicly co-financed project (likely EU or Portuguese national funding), suggesting access to non-dilutive public capital, though the funding counterparty is not specified.

HicisLab is not a technology company. The offering is human-expert-dependent diagnostic pathology with no proprietary software products, no named service modules, no patents, and no AI/ML capability disclosed. The competitive position rests on the specialist credentials of the lead pathologist and the formal compliance posture implied by the published Quality Policy and Privacy Policy. Customer logos, revenue figures, headcount trend, and competitive positioning data are not disclosed in the source material, limiting depth of analysis to the structural facts of a small, locally focused medical diagnostic laboratory.

Name

HicisLab

Legal name

Laboratório Rodrigues Pereira S.A

Website

https://hicislab.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Short description

HicisLab is a small pathological anatomy laboratory in Porto, Portugal, operated as Laboratório Rodrigues Pereira S.A. It provides medical diagnostic pathology services to healthcare providers and medical institutions on a regional basis, anchored by specialist pathologist Dr. Rodrigues Pereira with a staff of approximately 6.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pathology Laboratory Services

NAICS

Medical Laboratories (621511)

SIC

Services-Medical Laboratories (8071)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLAFAMAA

Anatomic Pathology (Histopathology & Cytopathology)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Healthcare Providers & Systems/Clinical Laboratories

SECONDARYHLAGAEAC

Anatomic Pathology & Histopathology (Trial Support)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Life Science Tools & Services (CRO/CDMO/Lab Services)/Central Labs & Clinical Diagnostics Services (Trial Support)

Keywords

• Pathology laboratory services
• Anatomical pathology
• Medical diagnostic testing
• Pathological analysis
• Clinical pathology

Headquarters

HQ city

Porto

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

HicisLab (legally Laboratório Rodrigues Pereira S.A) operates a pathological anatomy (anatomia patológica) laboratory in Porto, Portugal. The company provides medical diagnostic pathology testing and analysis services to healthcare providers and medical institutions, led by Dr. Rodrigues Pereira as the laboratory director.

Product overview

HicisLab is associated with Laboratório Rodrigues Pereira S.A, a pathology laboratory (Anatomia Patológica) located in Porto, Portugal. The company operates a website at hicislab.eu and is co-financed by a project. No specific named products, modules, or distinct service offerings are detailed in the available source material.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pathological Anatomy Laboratory Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Projeto Co-Financiado (Co-Financed Project)minorOthersThe company has a co-financed project mentioned on the website, indicating participation in a publicly funded initiative. Specific funding entity not named in the available source content.

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Synlab Portugal: Synlab is Europe's largest medical diagnostics services provider and operates a national network of clinical and anatomic pathology laboratories in Portugal. It competes directly for the same physician and hospital referral accounts that HicisLab targets, but at much greater scale and breadth across multiple diagnostic disciplines.
• Unilabs Portugal: Unilabs is a major European diagnostics operator with a Portuguese presence offering clinical lab testing and pathology services to hospitals and physicians. It serves as a broad incumbent competitor to HicisLab, with overlapping referral networks and the ability to win large institutional contracts.
• Joaquim Chaves Saúde: Joaquim Chaves Saúde operates a Portuguese network of clinical analysis laboratories and complementary diagnostic services. It targets the same healthcare provider and patient testing demand that HicisLab addresses, particularly in the Lisbon and northern Portugal regions, but with significantly broader service coverage.
• Sonic Healthcare: Sonic Healthcare is a global medical diagnostics and pathology operator with extensive anatomic pathology offerings across Europe and Australia. It represents the international pathology scale benchmark against which sub-scale regional players like HicisLab must position themselves on physician relationships and turnaround.
• Quest Diagnostics: Quest Diagnostics is one of the world's largest clinical and anatomic pathology laboratory networks. While primarily U.S.-based, its digital pathology and physician outreach programs set the global service standard that smaller European pathology labs like HicisLab must meet or differentiate against.
• Labcorp Diagnostics: Labcorp is a leading global clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology services provider with extensive hospital and physician relationships. As an international incumbent, it exemplifies the kind of scale, accreditations, and digital pathology capabilities that pressure small regional players.

Direct peers

• CGC Genetics / Genetyx ICM: CGC Genetics is a Portuguese specialty diagnostic laboratory focused on genetic and molecular testing, often requiring pathologist interpretation. Comparable to HicisLab as a Portuguese specialty lab offering high-complexity diagnostic testing to clinicians, though CGC is positioned in genetics rather than anatomical pathology.

Regional players

• Eurofins Genoma: Eurofins Genoma is a European specialty diagnostics laboratory offering molecular and anatomical pathology-related testing. It is comparable to HicisLab as a specialty pathology lab serving clinical referrers, though operating across Southern Europe rather than only the Porto market.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about HicisLab