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Vitana Pediatric & Orthodontic Partners Acquires Pediatric Dental Partners
Vitana Pediatric & Orthodontic Partners announced on August 23 its acquisition of Pediatric Dental Partners for an undisclosed price. Pediatric Dental Partners is based out of two locations in Louisiana: Bossier City and Shreveport. Per its website, the practice has four providers on staff. Vitana Pediatric & Orthodontic Partners is a dentist-led dental partnership organization focused exclusively on elite pediatric dental and orthodontic practices, with operations in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this transaction represents the 362nd Physician Medical Groups acquisition of the... Read More »
PE-Backed WellSky Acquires Experience Care
WellSky, a portfolio company of TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners, announced on August 23 its acquisition of Experience Care. Experience Care is a technology company offering a suite of software solutions for post-acute and long-term care providers. The company’s electronic health record (EHR) platform NetSolutions serves 150 long-term care clients with 850 facilities. It is based in Austin, Texas. WellSky provides software solutions for more than 20,000 client sites — including hospital systems, blood banks, cell therapy labs, home health and hospice franchises, post-acute providers, government agencies and human services organizations. With the addition... Read More »
Cell Microsystems Acquires Fluxion Biosciences
Durham, North Carolina-based Cell Microsystems announced its acquisition of Fluxion Biosciences. According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this acquisition represents the 102nd Biotechnology transaction of 2023, and 19th in the third quarter. Fluxion delivers advanced solutions that automate complex cell-based and cell-free assays. Products include ERASE-Seq for NGS analysis of cancer from a “liquid biopsy” blood sample, IsoFlux for circulating tumor cell analysis, BioFlux for functional analysis of cellular interactions and the IonFlux automated patch clamp system. Cell Microsystems provides pioneering solutions for cell biology research, and... Read More »
PE-Backed Transnetyx Acquires Laragen
On August 23 Transnetyx, Inc., based in Cordova, Tennessee, announced its acquisition of Laragen, Inc. The financial terms were not disclosed. Laragen is a sequencing and genetic services company in Culver City, California. The company was founded in 1995. Transnetyx, a portfolio company of Thompson Street Capital Partners, is a fully-automated genotyping resource for thousands of researchers in universities, hospitals and bioscience companies around the world. It has genotyped more than 20 million samples in 24 or 72 hours with 99.97% accuracy. The addition of Laragen’s sanger sequencing and next-generation sequencing services to the Transnetyx solution suite will... Read More »
Youme Healthcare Acquires Online Therapy Startup Hurdle Health
Baltimore-based startup Youme Healthcare has acquired fellow startup Hurdle Health for an undisclosed price. According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this acquisition represents the 184th eHealth transaction of 2023, including 36 in the telehealth specialty. Founded in 2018, Hurdle Health is a Washington, D.C.-based company that provides culturally intentional online mental health support to people of color. Since its inception, Hurdle Health has raised more than $5 million in venture capital funding. Youme Healthcare is a Baltimore-based healthcare practice focused on child, teen and family behavioral and mental health, including cognitive talk therapy and medication... Read More »MB2 Dental Solutions Acquires Five Dental Practices
MB2 Dental Solutions has continued its August acquisition streak with the addition of five practices. The practices are Pediatric Dental Specialists in Martinez and Augusta, Georgia; Burbank, California-based Brenn Orthodontics; Jersey City Dental Center in Jersey City, New Jersey; Sugar Land and Katy, Texas-based Avalon Dental Group; and Desert Sun Endodontics in Phoenix, Arizona. MB2 Dental Solutions, a portfolio company of middle-market private equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partners since February 2021, partners with dentists and specialists. Founded in 2007, MB2 offers general dentistry services, orthodontics, cosmetic dentistry and oral surgery. It is based in... Read More »
Vesey Street Capital Partners Sells Portfolio Company QualityMetric
Vesey Street Capital Partners (VSCP) announced last week that it completed the full sale of its portfolio company, QualityMetric. Founded in 1997, QualityMetric combines its proprietary scientifically validated general health and disease-specific surveys with its technology, advanced analytics and sector expertise to work with all the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies in clinical trials and patient surveillance. VSCP is a strategic private equity manager founded in 2014 that focuses on healthcare services. Since its inception, the firm has consummated 39 transactions across 9 platform businesses and has deployed approximately $600 million in capital. VSCP had... Read More »
Software Firm, Waystar, to Go Public
Waystar Inc, a portfolio company of EQT, CPPIB and Bain Capital, is, reportedly, moving towards an initial public offering (IPO) that values the company at $8 billion, as of August 21. Waystar is the combination of Navicure and ZirMed, two leading revenue cycle management companies. It supports more than 450,000 providers, 750 health systems and hospitals and 5,000 payers and health plans. EQT, CPPIB and Bain Capital have hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to guide the company through the process, according to reporting done by Reuters. Contingent upon market conditions and regulations, the IPO is expected to materialize later in 2023 or early in... Read More »
