Arcadia Healthcare Solutions Announces $30MM New Investment

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Merck Global Health Innovation partners with GE Ventures and existing investors to scale leading healthcare data and advanced analytics company

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Arcadia Healthcare Solutions (“Arcadia” or the “Company”) announced today that the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (“Merck GHI”), GE Ventures, and existing investors Peloton Equity, Zaffre Investments, and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners have invested $30 million of growth capital in the Company.

With over 60 enterprise customers, Arcadia is a leading healthcare data aggregation and analytics technology company with a focus on serving ambulatory networks affiliated with large payer and provider organizations, including health plans, accountable care organizations, integrated delivery networks, and large independent physician groups, among others. Arcadia’s technology and services enable its customers to successfully drive value-based performance management programs as American healthcare shifts to a new paradigm. Arcadia is led by chief executive officer Sean Carroll, a longtime executive with over 25 years of experience in the health IT industry.

“Having Merck GHI and GE Ventures join existing investors in this round of growth capital is the optimal outcome for us,” said Carroll. “The rigorous process expands our team of blue chip investors who actively support their companies’ growth plans.”

“Arcadia fits perfectly with our initiatives supporting the transition to value based care. Arcadia’s deep expertise in transforming isolated data into critical insights that enable providers to close gaps in care and enable better outcomes is central to our investment hypothesis around Population Health,” stated Joel Krikston, Managing Director at Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund.

“GE Ventures is excited to back Arcadia in becoming an industry leader to help payers and providers apply advanced analytics to their business models. We’re especially proud to invest in this highly experienced Boston-based team, which is now home to GE's headquarters,” said Noah Lewis, Managing Director of healthcare at GE Ventures.

The investment allows the company to accelerate its robust product development plans in the core Arcadia Analytics platform and expand population health management market activities across the country. While the company will continue to focus on organic growth, Arcadia has made two successful acquisitions since its founding—Concordant, an EHR support services company in 2011 and Sage Technologies, a managed care services company in 2015.

“Our transformation from a proven consulting firm to a recognized, technology-led population health analytics company is complete as noted by industry experts such as KLAS Research, Gartner, and Chilmark Research,” said Carroll. “We see a bright future for our customers, investors, and team members.”

The capital raise process was managed by Robert W. Baird and supported by counsel Goodwin Proctor.

About Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

Merck Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund (www.merck.com/ghi) invests in emerging companies that deliver breakthrough healthcare solutions which advance Merck's mission to discover, develop, and provide innovative products and services that save and improve lives. Established in 2010, the GHI Fund deploys its evergreen $500 million fund to rapidly identify and develop transformative global health care opportunities. GHI is focused on identifying opportunities that are adjacent to Merck’s core business of pharmaceuticals and vaccines.

About GE Ventures

GE Ventures (www.geventures.com) is committed to identifying, scaling, and accelerating ideas that will make the world work better. Focused on the areas of software, advanced manufacturing, energy, and healthcare, GE Ventures helps entrepreneurs and start-ups succeed by providing access to GE's technical expertise, capital, and opportunities for commercialization through GE's global network of business, customers, and partners. GE Ventures offers an unparalleled level of resources through its Global Research Center, including: 35,000 engineers; 5,000 research scientists; 8,000 software professionals; as well as 40,000 sales, marketing, and development resources in over 100 countries.

About Peloton Equity

Peloton Equity, LLC (http://www.pelotonequity.com) is a newly-formed private equity firm that focuses exclusively on growth capital investments in the lower middle market of the healthcare industry. Peloton’s portfolio includes HealthPlanOne, a leading technology-enabled digital marketing firm specializing in Medicare and individual and family health insurance sales and distribution. Peloton leverages its extensive healthcare network, value-building diligence and investment process, and portfolio management playbook to add value to its portfolio companies. Peloton seeks companies with between $20 and $200 million of revenue and the management team, market opportunity and business model to grow revenues meaningfully over the life of its investment.

About Zaffre Investments

Zaffre Investments, LLC (http://www.zaffreinvestments.com/) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that is committed to adding value through investments in new products, services and technologies that aim to improve the way healthcare is delivered and received. Zaffre focuses on companies across the healthcare landscape, with a primary focus on ACOs, consumer solutions, health information technology, and behavioral health. The firm is stage agnostic, considering a company’s financial and market positions, capabilities, and core values, as well as their missions and visions for the future. Zaffre employs a true partnership model for its portfolio companies, providing strategic direction, business support, industry connections and more.

About Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners

Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (http://www.morganstanleyaip.com), part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, specializes in assisting institutional and high net worth investors achieve their goals through the design and management of alternative investment programs. Established in 2000, Morgan Stanley AIP currently has approximately $36.4 billion in assets under management and advisement.

About Arcadia Healthcare Solutions

Arcadia Healthcare Solutions (http://www.arcadiasolutions.com) is an EHR data aggregation and analytics technology company supporting ambulatory networks taking on risk and transitioning to value- based care. Arcadia specializes in integration of data from over 30 EHR vendors, enriching it with claims and operational data, and using that data to drive improvements in patient care quality, practice efficiency, and financial performance. Trusted by independent provider groups, health plans, and integrated delivery networks nationwide, with expertise in both fee-for-service optimization and value- based performance environments, Arcadia supports providers with the benchmark data, insights, and outsourced services to excel in the evolving landscape of American healthcare. Founded in 2002, Arcadia is headquartered outside Boston in Burlington, MA, with offices in Seattle, Pittsburgh, and outside Chicago in Rockford, IL.