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Roster Holdings

Helping good lower-middle-market businesses compete in the next era.

Roster Holdings is being built to acquire and partner with well-run, privately held businesses.

We focus on companies that are often overlooked as capital and attention move upstream: good prospects where better systems, practical automation, AI-enabled tools, and focused operating support can help unlock the next phase of growth.

Every spot is earned.

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Built for the Lower Middle Market

Good prospects should not be left off the roster.

We believe the lower middle market is full of good prospects: durable businesses with real customer trust, capable teams, and meaningful room to grow.

Many larger investors need larger deals. As funds grow, the lower middle market can become harder for them to serve with the same level of focus, flexibility, and operating attention.

Roster is being built for that gap.

The Next Operating Layer

Good businesses rarely need to be reinvented. They need the next operating layer.

Many lower-middle-market businesses have already proven what works: strong customer relationships, capable teams, and years of operating knowledge. The next stage often requires better systems, clearer data, and a practical way to evaluate where automation and AI can actually help.

Roster works with owners and management teams to identify those opportunities, then implement or develop the systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools that turn them into operating reality.

AI & Automation

AI should solve a business problem.

Many owners know AI and automation can improve their business. The harder part is knowing what to build, what to buy, and how to turn those ideas into tools that actually work inside the company.

Roster brings the capability to build custom solutions in house or implement best-in-class tools that already exist. The point is to choose the right solution for the business, not force technology where it does not belong.

In one business, that may mean building a custom intake and routing system that matches customers to the right provider while turning operational data into better forecasting, care coordination, and retention insights. In another, it may mean automating highly manual onboarding workflows, connecting disconnected legacy systems, or building customer service tools that help teams proactively improve retention and expand customer relationships.

AI is not the end goal. It is a tool we use to help the business operate more efficiently, make better decisions, and scale more effectively.

We are not interested in change for its own sake. We start by understanding what made a business successful, then focus on the areas where better systems and practical automation can improve speed, consistency, visibility, and growth.

The people already inside a business often hold the most important operating knowledge. Roster’s role is to help those teams do more with better tools, clearer information, and focused support.

How We Think

Respect what works. Build what comes next.

What We Look For

Well-run businesses with room to grow.

We are drawn to businesses with a strong operating history, durable demand, and a next chapter worth investing in.

01

Strong operating history

Roster is built for well-run lower-middle-market companies that have earned customer trust over time. These businesses often have relationships, judgment, and operating knowledge that cannot be recreated quickly.

02

Durable demand

We look for businesses serving markets with real customer need, recurring or repeat demand, and a reason to exist across cycles.

03

Owner buy-in

We are often a fit when owners care what comes next. That may mean succession, a growth partner, or a long-term home for the company, but in each case, we want to build on what the owner and team have already created.

04

Room for thoughtful add-on M&A

We like markets and operating models where a well-run platform can deepen its position through carefully chosen add-on acquisitions that extend what the team already does well.

05

Operational complexity where better systems matter

We are interested in businesses that already work, but where better workflows, reporting, automation, AI-enabled tools, or decision support could help the company grow with more speed, consistency, and control. These are often categories where service quality, customer trust, industry knowledge, or operational execution create durable advantage.

Where We’re Active

Current focus. Broader areas of interest.

Roster focuses on markets where well-run lower-middle-market businesses can benefit from better systems, practical automation, AI-enabled tools, and long-term operating focus.

Current Focus

Physical Therapy Management & MSO Platforms

Roster is actively seeking conversations with owners, operators, and advisors of businesses that support physical therapy practices and related MSK care delivery.

We are focused on management companies and MSO platforms where better systems can improve patient access, intake, referral routing, administrative workflow, reporting, revenue cycle support, and growth infrastructure across a network of practices.

The goal is not to change what already works. It is to understand how the business supports practices today, then identify where better systems, practical automation, or purpose-built tools can help the platform operate with more speed, clarity, and control.

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Areas of focus

  • Patient access and intake

    Helping patients enter the system with less friction.

  • Referral routing and care navigation

    Improving how patients, referrals, and information move through the care journey.

  • Administrative workflow

    Reducing manual work across scheduling, documentation, reporting, billing support, and follow-up.

  • Revenue cycle support

    Improving visibility, consistency, and workflow around the administrative and financial functions that support care delivery.

  • Growth infrastructure

    Building the systems required to support additional locations, partnerships, acquisitions, or service lines.

Beyond MSK

Outside of our current PT management and MSO thesis, Roster is interested in categories where operational know-how, customer trust, workflow complexity, or brand create durable advantage.

Including

  • Healthcare services
  • Specialty services
  • Branded consumer
  • Niche industrial
  • Sports, health, and wellness

About Roster

About Roster.

Roster Holdings was founded around a simple idea: good lower-middle-market businesses should not be left behind as capital, technology, and attention move upstream.

Many of these businesses have already proven what works. They have durable customer relationships, capable teams, and years of operating knowledge. But the next chapter often requires better systems, clearer data, and a practical way to understand where automation and AI can actually help.

Roster is being built to acquire and partner with well-run, privately held businesses where focused operating support, practical automation, AI-enabled tools, and long-term ownership can help accelerate the next phase of growth.

We believe durable value should come from making the business stronger, not from financial engineering alone.

Approach

Built around the work.

Start with the expert.

Learn from owners, teams, and industry veterans.

Roster starts with people who understand the industry, the customer, and the day-to-day realities of the business.

That may be an owner, an existing management team, or an industry veteran who has seen the same patterns across a market. Their judgment helps clarify where the business already works, where the market is creating pressure or opportunity, and where better systems or capital could create meaningful value.

Identify the operating opportunity.

The best opportunities often sit inside everyday friction: manual processes, broken handoffs, disconnected systems, unused data, decisions made without enough visibility, or growth initiatives that need the right capital partner.

The point is to understand where AI, automation, better systems, additional capital, or focused operating support could meaningfully improve how the business grows.

Build the right value creation plan.

Once the opportunity is clear, the path should fit the business.

That may mean implementing best-in-class tools, connecting legacy systems, building purpose-built AI-enabled products, improving reporting, strengthening the team, supporting organic growth, or pursuing thoughtful add-on acquisitions.

Help the business scale without losing what made it work.

AI, automation, systems, and capital should give a strong team more leverage.

That can mean fewer manual tasks, clearer reporting, stronger margins, faster onboarding, more consistent customer experiences, better use of existing data, and more capacity for growth.

The operating knowledge inside the business still matters most. Roster supports that knowledge with better tools, clearer data, capital, and focused operating support, helping the team move faster while preserving the judgment, trust, and quality that made the business successful.

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Own, advise, or operate a lower-middle-market business that may fit the Roster approach?

We would welcome a conversation.

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