Top Sponsor Owned Healthcare Companies for Private Equity Firms

August 22, 2025

Top Sponsor Owned Healthcare Companies for Private Equity Firms

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Private equity firms and deal teams know that healthcare is one of the most attractive sectors for investments. Physician practice management, behavioral health, home health, and healthcare IT are all seeing rapid sponsor-backed growth.

But here’s the issue: finding accurate, up-to-date information on sponsor-owned healthcare companies is difficult.

Public data is fragmented and inconsistent. Many healthcare roll-ups happen quietly, especially in fragmented specialties like dental, dermatology, and physical therapy. Traditional sources rarely provide the ownership details that matter most…

Who owns this company? What’s the track record? What other assets do they hold? What’s the company’s growth over time?

For deal teams, this creates two big pain points:

Wasted time
Missed opportunities

To solve this sourcing challenge, investors and deal teams rely on specialized databases that track sponsor ownership, deal history, and fund activity. Each platform offers a different lens on the healthcare deal landscape.

In this article, we’re reviewing a list of the top databases for finding healthcare companies. By the end of this, you’ll have a better understanding of which would be a good addition for you and your team.

PitchBook

PitchBook provides a comprehensive dataset on private equity, and venture-backed companies, covering ownership, financing history, valuations, and sponsor relationships. With screening tools, users can quickly identify sponsor-owned healthcare companies across specialties and track sponsor activity over time. This makes it a powerful resource for sourcing sponsor-backed healthcare platforms with precision.

S&P Capital IW|Q

S&P Capital IQ offers data and ownership breakdowns for both public and private companies. The platform’s strength lies in transaction comps and valuation analysis, making it especially valuable for benchmarking sponsor-backed healthcare deals. Deal teams can use these insights to more effectively source and evaluate healthcare investment opportunities.

Dakota Marketplace

Dakota Marketplace provides a comprehensive database of sponsor-backed portfolio companies, with verified firms across every sector, stage, and geography. Built specifically for private equity, venture capital, investment banking, and corporate development teams, it enables filtering by sub-industry and segment, surfacing comparable companies through keyword search. With features like real-time sponsor-backed accuracy, competitive benchmarking, GP data and investment criteria, and AI-driven competitor insights, it delivers actionable intelligence that turns research into sourcing and deal execution. This functionality makes Dakota Marketplace especially valuable for sourcing healthcare companies efficiently.

CB Insights

CB Insights is a private market intelligence platform that tracks companies across different markets, with predictive insights like exit probability and market maturity scores. It specializes in tracking venture-backed and innovative firms, with especially strong coverage of digital health, telehealth, and AI-driven healthcare startups. It’s a go-to tool for sourcing sponsor activity in innovative healthcare sectors before they scale.

Crunchbase

Crunchbase is a widely used startup and growth company database that provides quick snapshots of funding rounds, investors, and ownership. It offers private market intelligence, delivering not just funding and ownership data but also AI-powered predictions, growth signals, and investor insights via API and Crunchbase Pro tools. For deal teams, this makes Crunchbase a useful tool for sourcing and tracking high-growth healthcare opportunities.

PrivCo

PrivCo’s database delivers private company financial estimates, ownership structures, and growth metrics that are often hard to find elsewhere. It’s particularly useful for uncovering mid-market healthcare companies with sponsor backing, with advanced filters for financials, ownership, and growth alongside verified executive contacts for sourcing and outreach. This makes PrivCo a strong option for sourcing healthcare companies outside the venture spotlight.

Grata

Grata is a private company intelligence platform built for deal sourcing, powered by AI-driven search that uncovers niche, mid-market businesses often overlooked by other databases. In healthcare, it excels at identifying sponsor-backed roll-ups in fragmented specialties like dental, dermatology, and physical therapy, while also surfacing under-the-radar platforms and add-on opportunities. Deal teams can leverage Grata to source hard-to-find healthcare platforms and specialty roll-ups.

SourceScrub

SourceScrub is a sources-first, AI-powered deal sourcing platform that continuously aggregates and verifies private market data from an expansive network of digital sources. It’s particularly powerful for identifying sponsor-backed and founder-owned healthcare companies—including elusive mid-market and platform targets—while offering built-in CRM integration, custom scoring, and real-time alerts to turn discovery into actionable pipelines. This makes SourceScrub especially effective for sourcing healthcare acquisitions that are not yet widely visible.

Turning Data into Deals

For private equity firms and deal teams, the opportunity in healthcare has never been greater , but neither has the competition. The difference between winning a deal and missing one often comes down to data access and speed to insight.

Traditional research methods simply can’t keep up with the pace of sponsor-backed growth. That’s why specialized databases like PitchBook, S&P Capital IQ, Dakota Marketplace, CB Insights, Crunchbase, PrivCo, Grata, and SourceScrub have become essential tools for today’s deal professionals. Each brings its own strengths, from deep financial benchmarking to innovation tracking to sourcing under-the-radar roll-ups.

By equipping your team with the right mix of these platforms, you transform fragmented, time-consuming research into actionable intelligence. Instead of wasting time or missing opportunities, you’ll know exactly who owns what, where the growth is, and which deals align with your strategy.

Want to explore the healthcare industry and transactions? Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace.

Written By: Morgan Holycross, Marketing Manager

Morgan Holycross is a Marketing Manager at Dakota.

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Top Sponsor Owned Healthcare Companies for Private Equity Firms