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, and the discernment to know when to use it.

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

Dane 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.
  • —Capital and operations partner to a specialty oral-health platform that scaled to 200+ locations in 22+ states, and to a multidisciplinary behavioral health platform that doubled its clinical footprint through de novo execution and leadership & infrastructure 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

Building durable businesses takes a village. So does running them. The Archē Network is ours, and it is open to the founders we partner with — clinicians, operators, and executives who can be called on for the growth questions and the day-to-day ones alike, never as 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, when it fits

Operators and clinicians with experience in the businesses we invest in — who can be called on when their expertise is the right fit.