A different kind of partner for independent healthcare.
Cold Start acquires independent healthcare practices across select specialties that fit our investment criteria. We can structure each partnership around the ideal outcome for the physician — whether that's stepping back in a few weeks, months or years.
A true alignment of interests
You cannot build an enduring system where providers, patients, and payors are pulling in different directions.
We structure partnerships so that everyone is incentivized toward the same thing — better access, better outcomes, and more preventative, proactive care.
What we look for.
We are deliberately selective. The practices we partner with tend to share the same handful of characteristics.
Best-in-class clinics
Leading practices across our targeted specialties — the name providers and patients in the market already know.
Highly attractive geographies
Markets with durable demand, favorable demographics, and room for a specialty platform to grow.
Single-practice providers
Independent practices — with or without additional healthcare providers on staff.
Strong reputations
Trusted by patients and by the referring physicians who send them.
Loyal, established patient bases
A history of durable demand and relationships that don't turn over.
Founder-led legacy
Practices built by clinicians with a legacy worth carrying forward — and clinicians seeking flexibility, whether a clean exit, a gradual transition, or continued clinical leadership.
The specialties we partner across.
We are actively acquiring in the specialties below and continually expanding into new ones.
ABA
Behavioral Health
Psychiatry
Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
Pediatrics
Geriatrics
OB/GYN
Dental
Medical Nutritional Therapy
Neurology
Cardiology
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Speech-Language Pathology
Think we might be describing your practice?
If the criteria above sound like you, we'd welcome a confidential conversation.