Archē Partners
Archē Partners
The Team

Entrepreneurial spirit, institutional discipline

Pairing equity, credit and operating expertise with a founder-first mindset — experience across building, buying, operating and selling in healthcare, brought to the table when it is useful.

15+
Years in healthcare
85+
Transactions closed
$1.5B+
Closed deal value
5+
JV & health system partnerships
Combined experience of the founding partners

Dane W. Block, Jr.

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
  • —7 years of healthcare investing and M&A, partnering with founder-owners to build value through M&A, service-line expansion and operational improvements.
  • —65+ transactions completed as a lower-middle-market investor and M&A advisor; closed over $750M in value.
  • —Helped scale a specialty oral-health platform to 22+ states and 200+ locations, and doubled the footprint of a multidisciplinary behavioral health platform through de novo execution and management team & leadership buildout.
  • —Deep focus on pediatrics and behavioral health — capital management, strategy, team building and execution.
Prior Experience
Latticework Capital Management· Stephens Inc.·
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Jack Beardslee

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
  • —8 years of healthcare investing and operating experience, including leading outpatient growth for the largest specialty practice-management organization in the country.
  • —Led all new ambulatory surgery center (ASC) developments for the nation’s leading network of gastroenterology providers and cultivated joint-venture relationships with hospital systems.
  • —Closed over $800M of healthcare-related credit across 20+ transactions; managed over $3B of healthcare investments.
  • —Highly focused on “win-win” partnerships with physicians, health systems and third-party partners.
Prior Experience
GI Alliance· Fortress Investment Group· J.P. Morgan·
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The Archē Network

The team is bigger than the partners

The Archē Network is a group of clinicians, operators and executives with healthcare-building experience who can be called on when a specific challenge or diligence question comes up. They are a resource to draw on as needed, not a layer added to a management team.

100+ years of combined operating experience to draw on when a question calls for it.
Clinical, operational and financial lenses available to pressure-test a specific question.
Surface off-market M&A opportunities and cultivate strategic stakeholder relationships.
Pattern recognition on clinical quality, payer dynamics and unit economics, applied during diligence.
Pre-vetted advisors and operating executives available to support.
Network Members

Deep industry experience, engaged

Operators and clinicians with experience in the businesses we invest in — available when their expertise is the right fit.