Varsity Healthcare Partners

Varsity Healthcare Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2012 and based in Los Angeles, California, with an additional office in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm specializes in investing in the healthcare sector, focusing on multi-site providers, critical outsourced services, and healthcare provider platforms that address essential challenges in the industry. Varsity Healthcare Partners aims to enhance care quality, improve access, generate savings for patients and payors, and create operational efficiencies. It typically invests between $10 million to $60 million in companies with EBITDA ranging from $5 million to $15 million, often preferring to be the first institutional investor and utilizing low levels of debt financing.

David A. Alpern

Managing Partner

Merrick Axel

Partner

Boyd, Steven

Operating Partner

Carlson, Ned

CEO in Residence

D’Addato, Mark

Operating Partner

Adam Feldman

Private Equity Vice President

Navid Gharavi

Principal

Craig Lamp

CTO and Operating Partner

Andrew Paik

Principal

Kenton Rosenberry

Partner

Pedro Santos

Vice President

William Sloss

Vice President

Jarrod Smith

Principal

6 past transactions

Beghou Consulting

Private Equity Round in 2023
Beghou Consulting is a management consulting firm serving the US and India.

Peak Dental Services

Private Equity Round in 2021
Peak Dental Services helps dental practices run smoothly by supporting dentist leaders to focus on providing patient standard of care. Peak Dental Services was founded in 2008 by a dentist from small-town Minnesota, Dr. Douglas Peak, and his son A.J. Peak, a Kellogg School of Management MBA and former McKinsey and Company consultant. After a few 14-hour work days, they realized they needed help if the company was going to continue growing successfully. However, they weren’t willing to settle for just anyone; the team behind Peak Dental Services is comprised of individuals with an exemplary understanding of the dental industry, including recruiting, marketing, finance, customer service, and training.

Partners First Cardiology

Private Equity Round in 2020
Partners First Cardiology is cardiology and cardiovascular physician practice management company focused on serving independent-minded cardiologists and cardiovascular specialists with cutting edge clinic support and outpatient facility development services.

Peak Gastroenterology Associates

Private Equity Round in 2019
Peak Gastroenterology is a provider of gastroenterology services and ancillary patient diagnostic and remedial treatment services.

Ideal Option

Private Equity Round in 2018
Headquartered in Kennewick, Washington, Ideal Option has delivered personalized medicine to over 20,000 patients through a network of 60 urban and rural office-based opioid treatment (“OBOT”) clinics across 10 states. Ideal Option emphasizes individualized treatment programs for patients consisting of MAT and behavioral counseling services to drive superior outcomes. The Company extensively utilizes telemedicine technology to reach secondary and tertiary markets where access to treatment is limited or non-existent. Ideal Option and its team of over 90 medical providers are dedicated to delivering excellent patient care with integrity and empathy.

Katzen Eye Group

Acquisition in 2014
Based in Baltimore (MD), Katzen Eye Group is a leading vertically integrated ophthalmologic and optometric services practice, providing comprehensive and differentiated quality care utilizing its broad network of central Maryland-based clinical locations and outpatient surgery centers as well as a deep subspecialty-trained team of ophthalmologists and talented optometrists. Additionally, Katzen Eye Group’s operations benefit from a world-class managerial infrastructure, including cutting-edge practice management technology, affording outstanding visibility and predictability at the clinic level, and centralization of all core operational functions, so as to provide clinicians with freedom to focus their time and energy on patient care at the local level.
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