About Us

EAM is a growth-oriented private equity firm.

We are building the pre-eminent lower mid-market technology-focused growth buyout firm. We aim to be the investor of choice for founders and growth-oriented executives seeking a partner who will support their vision for long-term profitable growth and the pursuit of operational excellence. We do so in a spirit of data-driven candor, hard work and partnership.

Our Focus

We focus entirely on Technology and Tech-enabled service companies.

EAM provides tailored capital solutions and strategic and operating support to companies with long term growth potential. We typically invest $25M to $100M of capital per company for growth equity or to support shareholder transitions.

Our Companies

We help exceptional companies grow.

EAM provides tailored capital solutions and strategic support to growing companies. We provide $25M to $100M of capital per company for growth equity and buyout transactions, with leverage levels tailored to each situation.

Evention

Financial automation software for hospitality, restaurants and retail

Mindoula

Tech-enabled behavioral health

MIVA

Ecommerce infrastructure software for retailers, distributors and wholesalers

PCMI

Specialty lines insurance software platform

Our Team

We are known for creating value and forging lasting relationships with Founders and CEOs of market-leading companies.

Wendy Cebula>
Wendy Cebula

Wendy is an Operating Partner at EAM.

Wendy has a passion for helping to develop people, process and technology to create value for customers and to drive company growth. EAM has a focused investment strategy, strong and diverse team and a true partnership approach to working with portfolio companies.

Wendy has more than 30 years of hands-on experience in various leadership roles and has been a driving force in building high-growth education technology, e-commerce and financial services companies.  Her career includes serving as President and COO of edX, a prominent education technology company, where she played a pivotal role in shaping their business model. Wendy also spent 13 years at Vistaprint (now Cimpress) where she helped lead the company’s growth from $1 million to more than $1 billion in revenue, with several of those years as COO.

Wendy earned her B.S. in Finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Tara Ciongoli>
Tara Ciongoli

Senior Advisor

Tara joined EAM in 2018 originally as COO, and now is a Senior Advisor. Prior to joining EAM, Tara spent nearly a decade in management consulting, business development, and professional development roles. Tara worked for the majority of her career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, specializing in strategy, marketing, and organizational work for primarily financial services clients, before transitioning to professional development where she led firm training and people processes. She also worked in Business Development at Time Inc/ Time Warner.

Tara received her MBA from Harvard Business School, an AB in the School of Public and International Affairs from Princeton University.

Jeff Del Papa>
Jeff Del Papa

Jeff is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of EAM.

Jeff has been investing in private software companies for more than twenty years. His experience includes partnering with management teams to complete buyout, growth equity, carve out and take private transactions. Jeff started his private equity career at Summit Partners and also worked at Thoma Bravo and TA Associates, where he led and helped manage investments in software and services companies.

Jeff’s passion is working with product-led software companies and partnering with leadership teams and founders to provide growth support through EAM’s Investor-Operator strategy.

Jeff graduated from Babson College and has a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Andrew Hayes>
Andrew Hayes

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

Andy joined EAM in 2020. Andy has over 18 years of experience serving private equity firms, funds and portfolio companies in various capacities.  Prior to joining EAM, he was an Audit and Transaction Advisory Partner in the Boston office of KLR, a Top 100 Accounting Firm, where he spent over 12 years of his career.  Andy also spent several years as a Controller on the finance team at Summit Partners, where he focused on firm and fund operations, financial reporting and strategic initiatives.  Andy holds a BS in Accountancy from Providence College, an MBA from Bryant University and is also a CPA.

Prior Firms
• KLR
• Summit Partners

Education
• Bryant University (MBA)
• Providence College

Oscar Loynaz>
Oscar Loynaz

Principal

Oscar joined EAM in 2018. Prior to EAM, Oscar spent three years at TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, focusing on companies in the business services sector. At TA, Oscar was responsible for creating investment themes as well as sourcing and executing investment opportunities. Oscar began his finance career as an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan.

Oscar received his MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated from Princeton University with an AB in Economics, where he played varsity lacrosse. Oscar is actively involved with City Year, a non-profit organization focused on supporting communities and schools in Boston and other cities.

Prior Firms
• TA Associates
• J.P. Morgan

Education
• Harvard Business School
• Princeton University

Shawn McGowan>
Shawn McGowan

Shawn is an Operating Partner at EAM.

Shawn is a passionate operator and technologist. He is inspired by working with a collection of diverse and talented companies. He believes companies excel when they balance their focus on platform and product, operations, commercials, and culture. Shawn enjoys helping shape and promote this balance across the EAM portfolio, creating value for team members, customers and investors.

Shawn has more than twenty-five years of operating experience and has extensive experience in software and tech enabled service companies. Shawn has had roles as CTO, COO and CEO. Shawn was most recently CEO of Scribe Software.

Shawn graduated from Plymouth State College, Northeastern University (State of the Art, Computer Science) and Northeastern University Business School (MBA).

Elizabeth Pinto>
Elizabeth Pinto

Executive Administrator

Liz joined EAM in 2023. Previously, Liz spent 2 years with the Human Resources & Learning and Development team at Withers Bergman LLP, a global wealth planning and litigation law firm. She focused on employee life cycle management, performance appraisal processes, and benefits administration. Liz earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the College of Science at Virginia Tech.

Prior Firms
• Withers Bergman LLP

Education
• Virginia Tech

 

Tom Roberts>
Tom Roberts

Tom is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at EAM. Prior to EAM, Tom worked at Summit Partners for nearly 30 years, playing a central role in building Summit’s organization and its exceptional investment track record. During his tenure there, Tom served as Managing Partner, Executive Committee Member, and Investment Committee Member.  Tom also founded Summit’s Portfolio Performance Group and oversaw that group’s growth and success for nearly a decade.  During his career, Tom led dozens of investments for Summit, sitting on over 40 portfolio company boards during his tenure.

At EAM, Tom returns to his career roots of investing in founder-driven technology companies. EAM represents its founders’ shared vision of offering investors a concentrated portfolio of category leading high-growth technology companies while providing company founders and growth-oriented executives the exceptional level of support and partnership a small portfolio allows. EAM has assembled a world-class team, well-known to each other for decades, to pursue this vision.

Tom studied economics at Princeton University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Page Sadlier>
Page Sadlier

Director of Operations

Page joined EAM in 2018.  Page has over 18 years of experience working in business support roles at various financial services firms. Prior to EAM, Page worked with the Founder/CIO and Relationship Management team, with a focus on Investor Relations, at HighVista Strategies, an Investment Management Firm. Prior to HighVista, Page held similar roles at DRG and Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Page received a BA in Economics from Northeastern University.

Prior Firms
• HighVista Strategies
• DRG
• Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Education
• Northeastern University

Ben Tahmoush>
Ben Tahmoush

Analyst

Ben joined EAM in 2023. Prior to EAM, Ben was an Investment Banking Analyst at Citigroup where he focused on software coverage. Previously, Ben held internship roles at Battery Ventures and Mucker Capital. Ben received a BBA from the University of Michigan – Ross School of Business.

Prior Firms

Citigroup

Education

University of Michigan

Michaela Thompson>
Michaela Thompson

Analyst

Michaela joined EAM in 2022. Prior to EAM, Michaela held an internship at Battery Ventures where she focused on sourcing and executing investments in industrial technology.  Michaela received a BS from Boston College – Carroll School of Management. Michaela began her career specializing in industry research in a variety of software sectors with direct responsibility for origination and execution of buyout investments.

Education

Boston College – Carroll School of Management

 

Our Highlights

  • Jul 1, 2024 Read Article
    July 1, 2024

    Mindoula Founder & CEO Steve Sidel recognized as an EY Entrepreneur of the Year®

    July 1, 2024

    Steve Sidel, Founder and CEO of Mindoula, an EAM portfolio company, was named a winner of Ernst and Young’s 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year® (EOY) award for the Mid-Atlantic region. The EOY program celebrates and recognizes business leaders who demonstrate outstanding directorship, under which their companies have experienced remarkable growth and success. Steve was selected by a panel of judges for outstanding pursuance of, as Ernst and Young described it, “long-term value through entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth and impact” at Mindoula. EAM congratulates Steve Sidel and Mindoula for receiving this significant honor.

    About Mindoula   
    Mindoula is a next-generation population health management company that identifies, engages, and serves complex and rising-risk populations with behavioral health, medical and social challenges across the continuum of care. Mindoula deploys teams of 24-7 virtual and in-person care extenders — powered by adaptive data science, proprietary psychometrics, predictive analytics and a multi-platform technology suite — to deliver proven outcomes and guaranteed ROIs. Mindoula’s data-driven, member-centric approach has made it a market leader in complex and specialty population health management, collaborative care and behavioral health network extension. Mindoula contracts with payers, primary care and women’s health practice groups, health systems, and hospitals, extending their capabilities and helping them achieve their population health management goals. Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, Mindoula currently operates in VA, DE, PA, WV, LA, NV, FL, NJ, NY, NC, OH, NE, MO, IL, KY, and DC, with national expansion plans to meet the growing need for integrated whole person care. For more information, please visit www.mindoula.com.

    About EAM (Equality Asset Management)
    EAM is a growth-focused private equity firm with a mission to help build exceptional companies. EAM provides equity capital and strategic and operating support to software and software-enabled service companies with long-term growth potential. EAM typically invests up to $150 million of equity capital per company for growth equity and to support shareholder recapitalizations. The firm is based in Boston. For more information, please visit http://www.equalityam.com.

     

     

  • Jun 23, 2022 Read Article
    June 23, 2022

    Evention Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Equality Asset Management

    Evention Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Equality Asset Management

    Investment Will Support Evention’s Domestic and International Growth

    CHICAGOJune 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Evention LLC (“Evention”), a leading provider of software to hotels, restaurants, and retailers, announced today that it has secured an investment from Equality Asset Management (“Equality”), a Boston-based growth equity firm. Evention will continue to be led by its founders and Co-Managing Partners, Mike Baldinger, Erik Nejman, and Brian Roth. Financial terms were not disclosed.

    “Evention has been providing financial automation software that improves accuracy, reduces operating costs, and enables compliance for more than 15 years,” said Mike Baldinger, Evention Co-Founder and Managing Partner. “We’re experiencing rapid growth fueled by new products, market expansion, and the macro shift to improve and automate financial processes.”

    “This partnership allows Evention to continue its mission of empowering our customers with financial and back-office automation,” added Erik Nejman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner. “Equality has tremendous experience supporting growth software companies like Evention and we’re excited to welcome them as a partner to our company and to our amazing customers across the globe.”

    “Mike, Erik and I are thrilled about Evention’s next chapter of growth and continuing to build upon our long track record of success,” noted Brian Roth, Co-Founder and Managing Partner.

    Evention was founded in 2004 to solve the data and payroll complexities associated with tips and gratuity calculations. Initial customers were single-location hotels, but management companies and global hospitality and retail brands followed. Today, the Company has thousands of customers across verticals utilizing its cloud-based automation solutions for accounting, payroll, and other financial transactions, reducing administrative time, and increasing profitability. Evention’s growing product portfolio, as well as international presence, positions it as a trusted partner to some of the biggest names in hospitality, restaurants, and retail.

    “Finance and accounting offices are undergoing a modernization that is driving demand for software products that provide clear ROI,” said Oscar Loynaz, Principal at Equality. “Evention streamlines mid and back-office processes while improving transparency and employee engagement. We’re excited to partner with Mike, Erik, Brian and the team at Evention to support their continued success and accelerating growth.”

    “Evention’s focus on building highly valuable automation software that meets the needs of complex operating environments has enabled the Company to serve global brands with very high customer satisfaction” said Jeff Del Papa, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Equality. “With a broadening product portfolio, deep domain expertise, and global footprint, Evention is very well positioned to support customers as they seek the benefits of automation. ”

    McDonald Hopkins acted as legal advisor to Evention. Goodwin Procter LLP acted as legal advisor to Equality.

    About Evention LLC

    Based in Chicago, IL, Evention leverages automation to reinvent legacy accounting processes. Evention’s Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions simplify back-office processes for various verticals – from retail to restaurant to grocery, hospitality, casino, and others. By streamlining the management of cash, credit card reconciliation, tips and gratuities, and group billing processes, Evention’s automated solution suite decreases costs and increases efficiency. With robust controls and comprehensive reporting capabilities, Evention’s solutions guarantee financial transparency and security. Evention serves thousands of customers across the globe.

    About Equality Asset Management

    Equality Asset Management is a growth-focused private equity firm. Equality provides equity capital and strategic and operating support to growth companies in the technology and tech-enabled services sectors. With decades of investment experience and operating experience, the firm has earned a reputation for value-creation, serving as steadfast partners to Founders and CEOs. Equality is based in Boston. For more information, please visit https://www.equalityassetmanagement.com.

    Evention
    Brian Gosizk (brian.gosizk@eventionllc.com) – 312.953.4600

    Equality Asset Management
    Andrew Chironna (achironna@prosek.com) – 646.818.9047

     

     

     

     

  • Nov 18, 2021

    SaaS Ecommerce Provider Miva Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Equality Asset Management

    Investment will Support the Growth and Expansion of Miva’s Customer Base and Products

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    November 18, 2021

    SaaS Ecommerce Provider Miva Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Equality Asset Management

    SaaS Ecommerce Provider Miva Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Equality Asset Management

    Investment will Support the Growth and Expansion of Miva’s Customer Base and Products

    November 18, 2021 – San Diego, CA – Miva, Inc., a leading mid-market and enterprise ecommerce platform announced it has secured a significant equity investment from Boston-based growth equity firm, Equality Asset Management. The company will continue to be led by CEO, Rick Wilson. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    “Emerging from the pandemic, the ecommerce industry is well positioned for growth as more merchants diversify their revenue sources and reevaluate customer engagement online,” said Rick Wilson, CEO of Miva. “As we double down on the things that continue to differentiate us in the market and focus on our growth, we are thrilled to partner with Equality Asset Management to enter the next phase in our evolution.”

    For more than twenty years, Miva has provided a flexible and modern ecommerce platform to retailers, wholesalers and distributors, equipping them with the tools and capabilities needed to scale their ecommerce operations.

    The company creates more agility for its B2B and D2C customers at every step of the sales journey. Whether integrating with existing systems, delivering curated shopping experiences, or creating a customizable online store for direct sales, the platform’s rich functionality, ease of use and customizable nature have positioned it as a technology of choice for thousands of companies globally.  Miva’s low total cost of ownership and high customer satisfaction ratings also continue to receive industry recognition, as customers unlock new sources of revenue on the platform.

    “For both mid-market and enterprise businesses alike, the requirements to manage back-end systems and supply chains have become increasingly complex due to the intricacy of product catalogs, price books and multiple customer touch points,” said Jeff Del Papa, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Equality. “Miva was early in recognizing the need to introduce affordable and configurable solutions that drive automation and reduce operating costs. We are pleased to partner with Rick and the team at Miva to support their future growth and success.”

    “Miva has made significant investments in its software and is poised to grow organically and through strategic acquisitions. We are excited to support this strategy for expansion, in partnership with Miva’s management team,” added Oscar Loynaz, Vice President at Equality.

    First Analysis acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Miva for the transaction. Sheppard Mullin LLP acted as legal advisor to Miva. Goodwin Procter LLP acted as legal advisor to Equality.

    About Miva, Inc. 

    Miva offers a flexible, adaptable and scalable ecommerce platform that allows businesses to drive sales, maximize average order value, cut overhead costs, and increase revenue. Miva has been helping businesses realize their potential for over 20 years by empowering retail, wholesale, and direct-to-consumer sellers across all industries to transform their business through ecommerce. Learn more at www.miva.com.

    About Equality Asset Management
    Equality Asset Management is a growth-focused private equity firm. Equality provides equity capital and strategic and operating support to companies with long-term growth potential in the technology and tech-enabled services sectors. With decades of investment experience and operating experience, the firm has earned a reputation for value-creation, serving as steadfast partners to Founders and CEOs. Equality is based in Boston. For more information, please visit www.equalityassetmanagement.com.

     

    Media Contacts:

    Miva

    Marissa Pasillas (miva@walkersands.com) – 815.721.3086

    Equality Asset Management

    Beatrice Broderick (bbroderick@prosek.com) – 857.301.6949

     

  • Aug 27, 2021

    The Art and Science of Scaling with Wendy Cebula

    The Art and Science of Scaling with Wendy Cebula Wendy is an Operating Partner at Equality Asset Management. She has more than twenty years of operating experience in high growth technology enabled businesses, both public and private. Her prior firms include edX, Vistaprint, MotherNature.com and Partners First. Equality Asset Management is a growth-focused private equity

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    August 27, 2021

    The Art and Science of Scaling with Wendy Cebula

    The Art and Science of Scaling with Wendy Cebula

    Wendy is an Operating Partner at Equality Asset Management. She has more than twenty years of operating experience in high growth technology enabled businesses, both public and private. Her prior firms include edX, Vistaprint, MotherNature.com and Partners First.

    Equality Asset Management is a growth-focused private equity firm. Equality provides equity capital and strategic and operating support to companies in the technology and tech-enabled service sectors. For more information, please visit www.equalityassetmanagement.com.

    Chris Keller of Archean Capital: Your experience was heavily influenced by your time at VistaPrint which you joined when it had $1 million of revenue and helped scale to over $1 billion; what were some of the key decisions in that growth?

    Wendy: Vistaprint’s founder and CEO had audacious ambitions for the company and for the customer value proposition. As an operator that meant constantly reassessing what we were doing well and what we needed to do better. The most impactful decisions came from challenging the status quo. For example, at certain periods in our growth, we needed smart, well-rounded employees who could quickly get up to speed on any domain. At other times, we’d recruit individuals with deep domain expertise. The profile of the person who figured out how to land our first channel partnership was different than that of the person who scaled sales and marketing globally. Constantly growing talent from within while recognizing when we needed outside perspective matched our talent with our business requirements.

    We also were deliberate about building scalable capabilities. An example was our approach to customer support. We piloted our approach from our corporate office. They identified customer needs and tested processes and tools. To scale, we ran a global site selection project and chose Jamaica which had an education system centered around hospitality and an enthusiastic labor pool. We identified the right balance between local leadership and ex-pats who knew the Vistaprint way. Our Montego Bay location grew to hundreds of team members and became an employer of choice while giving Vistaprint a cost and service advantage. We had many interesting 8:00am flights, working on our laptops among a plane full of vacation bound passengers enjoying free champagne.

    Chris: Can you discuss a decision that, looking back, was a pivotal one to Vistaprint’s success?

    Wendy: Early in Vistaprint’s lifecycle, one of our funding rounds fell through. We had just launched 2 new products which we were very excited about but that weren’t yet profitable. We knew we needed to cut our burn rate and we had heated discussions about whether to make big changes or to take a more measured approach. We made the difficult decision to cut resources to the bone, including turning off the new products to focus our resources on profitably growing our core. Later, we re-launched the products and began rebuilding our team with a clearer view. The decision didn’t just save the company. It helped us to appreciate the benefits of being bold and decisive, and identifying, prioritizing, and focusing on what is most important, and deprioritizing what isn’t.

    Chris: What, if any, mistakes were made along the way and how do you help management teams learn from your mistakes as opposed to learning by making their own?

    Wendy: I’ve certainly made too many mistakes to count. Shawn McGowan, also an Equality operating partner, and I have each held roles at several growth-stage companies and have been board members or advisors to others. While a given team might encounter a situation once or twice, Shawn and I may have collectively observed a similar situation many times. Our approach is to add these additional real-world data points and perspective to the pool of information available as management makes the decision.

    For example, we often talk to founders with a great product. Their growth plans now require them to successfully build out a sales and marketing team to accelerate growth, but they have little or no experience doing so successfully. Shawn and I have collectively vetted many sales and marketing leaders. We are available as thinking partners on the profile and interview approaches and as members of the interview team. In fact, we just leaned into a process to recruit a new CRO to one of our portfolio companies. While our participation doesn’t guarantee every hire will be a fit, it increases the probability of success.

    Chris: I’m glad you mentioned recruiting. One of your skills is human capital assessment. How does your expertise help Equality pre or post investment?

    Wendy: Shawn and I have experience building high performing teams. The fact that we are included in the deal process from day one affords us a real opportunity to get to know and evaluate teams pre-close.

    First, we ask the CEO to walk us through their organization design and team. We then ask each functional leader to do the same. In all diligence meetings we observe interpersonal dynamics, how challenging questions are handled, and each individual’s command of their metrics and domain. We form hypothesis to test throughout the diligence process. Are roles, responsibilities, and goals clearly defined and aligned with incentives? Is decision making appropriately distributed? Does the team have the mix of experience and skills to execute on their strategy? Is the team diverse and inclusive? What is the company culture?

    We do a lot of work with founders. The brilliance of a founder is often their vision, passion and commitment to their teams and ideas. This can produce very high-quality products and financial results, but it very often results in leadership teams and organizations that are non-traditional when compared to larger businesses. Fully assessing the capabilities of a team, identifying gaps, and helping leaders to focus on areas where they have a superpower is very important for achieving a long-term scalable organization and ultimately for driving growth and margins. Our approach gives us clear visibility into team strengths and weaknesses and provides a data driven approach to making team and organizational decisions.

    Chris: What’s been the greatest lesson you’ve learned as it relates to people & talent?

    Wendy: My greatest learning is the power in identifying someone’s superpower and finding a way to get them into a role that takes full advantage of those strengths.

    Chris: What do you like most about being an operating partner at Equality?

    Wendy: I get a lot of satisfaction from supporting individuals and teams. Moments where my advice or partnership have a positive impact on someone else’s success are very rewarding.

    At Equality, we are entrepreneurs at heart, and we apply that passion to supporting the entrepreneurs in which we invest. We use an operator-to-operator approach which means the operating partners participate in all aspects of the investment process. By the time a deal closes we have relationships with management, an understanding of the company’s strategy, areas of operating strength and opportunity, and are aligned both internally and with management on the post-close plan. We can do all of this with empathy, humility, and perspective, having spent many years in the shoes of the management team. Several founder/CEOs have shared feedback that they selected Equality as their partner in part because of the differentiated value our operating partners could bring. It is fun to be part of a team that values and benefits from our experience.

    Chris: What do you like to do outside of work?

    Wendy: At home I have a husband and two teenage girls. They would each be quick to tell you I run our household much like I’d run a business. We maintain a backlog of chores and graph our expenses to visualize year on year trends and variance to budget. We maintain a strong culture of transparency, accountability and 360 feedback. In my downtime I enjoy watching sports, working out at Orange Theory, taking our dogs for walks and reading.

    Chris: Classic! I can imagine family dinners with PowerPoint. Thanks for your time. I enjoyed it.

  • Mar 18, 2021

    Mindoula Acquires 180 Health Partners and Its Strongwell™ Substance-exposed Living Platform

    Acquisition expands Mindoula’s suite of tech-enabled, outcome-driven population health management programs to include StrongWell™ Prenatal & Postpartum Care and Substance-exposed Living programs. Silver Spring, MD, March 18, 2021 –(PR.com)– Mindoula, a digital health innovator and market leader in the tech-enabled delivery of collaborative care and population health management programs for complex populations, today announced the acquisition

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    March 18, 2021

    Mindoula Acquires 180 Health Partners and Its Strongwell™ Substance-exposed Living Platform

    Acquisition expands Mindoula’s suite of tech-enabled, outcome-driven population health management programs to include StrongWell™ Prenatal & Postpartum Care and Substance-exposed Living programs.

    Silver Spring, MD, March 18, 2021 –(PR.com)– Mindoula, a digital health innovator and market leader in the tech-enabled delivery of collaborative care and population health management programs for complex populations, today announced the acquisition of 180 Health Partners, a Nashville, TN based company, with a mission to positively impact the trajectory of substance-exposed lives.

    By combining personalized, interdisciplinary treatment with a relationship-based support ecosystem, the Strongwell programs developed by 180 Health Partners operate at the intersection of behavioral, medical, and social care. This proven collaborative model of care delivers better outcomes and achieves higher levels of engagement than traditional, non-hybrid models of support and care. The Strongwell(TM) behavioral health care teams, comprised of 24/7 tech-enabled counselors, peer advocates, nurses, and resource navigators, partner with Medicaid MCO’s, Commercial and Medicare Advantage Health Plans, and states through value-based partnerships both as a vendor and as a fully licensed and credentialed behavioral health provider.

    The StrongWell™ programs have reduced Prenatal & Postpartum Care (PPC) costs by more than 50% driven primarily by improved health outcomes for infants and improved PPC for mothers, resulting in an average savings of over $20,500 per baby. They have successfully reduced total cost of care by over 30% for all substance-exposed living populations driven primarily by reduced hospital admissions, readmissions, avoidable Emergency Department utilization, and increased adherence to MAT programs through 180 Health Partners’ established relationships with in-network MAT Clinics and MAT-waivered prescribers.

    By helping babies be born healthier, by helping mothers be better supported before and after giving birth, and by helping men and women with substance exposed lives address their challenges, the StrongWell™ programs positively impact current and future generations.

    “The 180 Health Partners team is excited to join forces with Mindoula in a way that will allow us to rapidly extend the reach of our StrongWell™ programs and accelerate our mission to provide solutions and services to populations with substance use and other behavioral health challenges,” said Justin Lanning, Founder & CEO of 180 Health Partners. “We founded 180 Health Partners with a vision of delivering the most comprehensive, integrated, and successful tech-enabled hybrid support and care programs in the world for SUD populations with complex challenges and Mindoula is the perfect home for our proven programs to grow and thrive.”

    “From our founding back in 2013, we have dedicated our company to serving populations with behavioral, medical, and social challenges across the continuum of care, including those who might otherwise be underserved, labeled, or left behind as a result of substance use challenges,” said Steve Sidel, Founder & CEO of Mindoula. “With 180 Health Partners’ focus on prenatal & postpartum care populations as well as substance exposed non-pregnant adolescent and adult populations, we realized we’d found in their suite of StrongWell™ programs a perfect complement to our collaborative care, interpersonal violence reduction, suicide prevention, and serious mental illness & comorbid medical programmatic interventions. We therefore couldn’t pass up the opportunity to merge with Justin’s terrific company and his amazing team.”

    As a result of the acquisition 180 Health Partners will operate as an entity under the Mindoula umbrella of companies that includes predictive analytics subsidiary Care at Hand, and psychiatry innovator, Axis Healthcare Group. 180 Health Partners will continue to offer its StrongWell™ programs on a standalone basis to health plans, governments, health systems, and providers. In addition, the StrongWell™ programs will now be available in a bundle with Mindoula’s other next-generation population health management programs. Justin Lanning will continue to lead 180 Health Partners as its President, and will join Mindoula’s senior leadership team as Chief Customer Officer to help the company advance its mission to transform behavioral healthcare worldwide.

    About Mindoula

    Mindoula (www.mindoula.com) is a next generation population health management company that scales the human connection through technology in addressing mind, body, and life challenges. It identifies, engages, and serves populations who might otherwise be left behind, and delivers tech-enabled, team-based, 24/7 support and care across the continuum of care. Mindoula’s adaptive data science approach, multi-platform technology stack, and virtual + in-person care extension teams enable its enterprise partners to achieve improved outcomes and significantly reduced costs by integrating behavioral, medical, and social determinants of health. Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, Mindoula is currently operating in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Nevada, Louisiana, West Virginia, California, Texas, Missouri, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida, with continued national expansion plans to meet the growing need for integrated whole person care.

    About 180 Health Partners

    180 Health Partners’ (www.180healthpartners.com) mission is to research, define and provide solutions and services related to substance use and behavioral health challenges that help its clients deliver the most comprehensive, integrated and successful Care + Community programs in the world. Its flagship StrongWell™ programs can be found at www.iamstrongwell.com. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, 180 Health Partners is currently operating in Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, and Florida, partnering primarily with Medicaid MCO’s and States & Governments in serving substance exposed lives across the continuum of care.

    Contact
    Mindoula
    Kristi R. Stovall
    312.498.4078
    www.mindoula.com

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