Water Street Healthcare Partners
Dedicated to building market leaders in healthcare.
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Overview
Water Street Healthcare Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2005 that describes itself as thinking like a healthcare company. At Water Street, we are dedicated to building market leaders in healthcare. Our sole focus is investing in businesses to accelerate growth and impact in three critical healthcare sectors: healthcare services, medical products & diagnostics, and pharmaceutical & life sciences.
We accomplish this through a differentiated approach focused on transformational growth. Working closely with leadership teams, our team aligns our industry experience and network of resources to advance our shared goals for building businesses of greater long-term value that are contributing to a stronger healthcare system. The firm initiates strategic discussions with companies it identifies as having growth potential, and its portfolio companies focus on improving efficiency, access and patient outcomes. The company has completed more than 185 investments and strategic acquisitions while building over 48 healthcare companies.
With more than $6 billion of capital under management, we are actively pursuing new investments in businesses interested in a strategic partner to support their goals for next-level growth. To learn more about our approach, visit waterstreet.com Water Street also forms corporate partnerships with healthcare companies worldwide, which can involve investing in and growing targeted businesses, divesting companies, or developing products to advance pipelines without increasing development expenses.
Funding rounds
1 round. Latest: Equity Only, 15 May 2026.
| Date | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2026 | Equity Only | $1.92B |
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Recent posts from the Water Street Healthcare Partners blog
- Please join us in welcoming our newest team member, Eric Chi!
As vice president of data and analytics, Eric will support our family of healthcare companies in strengthening their data capabilities to advance their value-creation goals. Eric brings nearly 20 years of experience in data solutions.
- Congratulations to our partner ALCOR Scientific and CEO Jim Post on new peer-reviewed research that redefines…
what's possible in one of medicine's most widely used tests: the ESR blood test, which tests for inflammation to help detect and monitor infections, autoimmune diseases and certain cancers. For nearly a century, ESR samples had to reach the lab within four hours or the result could no longer be trusted, a tight window that’s harder to meet as labs centralize and courier routes grow longer.