How we do it
You have the vision. We build the company around it.
You run it.
We fund it, train your people, and stay out of the way.
We bring operators, not just capital.
Every platform is paired with operators who have already run and grown these businesses. Capital comes from family offices and SBIC partners.
Principles.
Decisions get made where the work happens.
People who run companies grow them. Spreadsheets do not.
The people who run the business and BDE Capital, pulling the same way.
Two ways in, one house.
We buy businesses that run on people.
What we cannot buy, we build.
Platforms and strategies.
Both platforms serve the same customer: the healthcare practice. The goal is everything in the office except reimbursed healthcare. We started with dental.
- Platform: Built, MedDesk AI Institute
- Add-ons: Any size, licensed state-approved schools only
- Operators: 1, who founded a career school and advised 42 schools
- Status: Built and owned. Buying next.
About 89,200 medical front desk jobs open in the U.S. every year. We train people to fill them.
We built our own school first. Next, buy licensed schools and run them on one platform.
In our portfolio: MedDesk AI Institute ↗
Career and trade schools · Allied-health programs · Employer training academies
- Platform: Buy, $2M+ EBITDA, no upper limit
- Add-ons: Any size
- Operators: 3, who have run healthcare back offices, software services and field teams
- Status: Next, after MedDesk revenue
The U.S. has 376,000 doctor and dental offices. We buy the firms that run their IT, phones, software and compliance, never the practice itself.
Back a founder with about ten years of runway. Buy the platform, add four or five companies, and reach the middle market.
Healthcare MSPs · Dental MSPs · HIPAA compliance firms
Our focus.
Platforms, no upper limit. Add-ons of any size.
Priority: the Southeast and Texas.
Platform first, then add-ons.
Workforce education, healthcare services, healthcare IT and MSPs.
Our job is the board. Your job is the business.
Align the incentives, watch the cash, fund the add-ons.
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