PE or Not?

See who owns the dentist, vet or brand you're looking at: PE-backed, corporate or owner-run. On Maps, Yelp and brand websites.

Private equity firms have bought thousands of dental offices, vet clinics and eye care practices, and plenty of the brands people buy, and most keep the old name. PE or Not? shows you who's really behind a business or a brand, with sources, right where you're already looking. ON GOOGLE MAPS AND YELP Search for a dentist, vet, eye doctor, physical therapist or HVAC company and a colored label appears next to each result: • PE-backed: a private equity firm has a stake in the business or the company that runs it • PE-backed, now lender-controlled: a former PE platform now run by its lenders • Not PE, corporate-owned: owned by a public company, insurer or other company (named) • Part of a health system • Group practice: a multi-office group owned by its own dentists, doctors or vets • No known PE ties: we checked and found none of the above • ✓ Verified Not PE: the owner certified there's no private-equity, corporate or lender owner, and we checked it against public records (a paid listing; paying never changes a label) Hover over a label for a preview, or click to pin it: the group's name, its private equity backers and since when, how we matched the location, and links to our sources. ON A BRAND'S WEBSITE Shopping on a brand's own site? Click the PE or Not? icon to see who owns the brand: PE-backed, owned by another company, or family-, founder- or employee-owned, with the owner, any private equity backers, since when, and sources. We cover 250+ brands people shop for, from outdoor gear and clothing to pet food and kitchenware. The full list is at peornot.org/brands. ON A BUSINESS'S WEBSITE On a practice's or contractor's own site, click the icon. It reads the business name, address and phone shown on the page and checks them against our data. NOT IN OUR DATA YET? Ask us to check a website from the popup. We research requests in batches, and can email you when it's done (your email is optional and used only for that). WHAT WE COVER Every dental and eye care practice in the US national provider registry, checked against the groups that own them; national veterinary, dermatology, gastroenterology (GI), physical therapy and HVAC/plumbing chains; and 250+ consumer brands. About 85,000 locations of 500+ groups, each label with sources and dates. FACTS, NOT REVIEWS A label describes who owns or backs a business or brand. It's not a rating of anyone's care or products. In dentistry a PE-backed company usually manages the practice while a dentist stays its legal owner, so we say "PE-backed" or "affiliated," not "owned by." Found a mistake? Every card links to "Report a correction," and we fix errors as soon as we confirm them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. • On Google Maps and Yelp it reads only the business listings on the page. On other sites, brand sites included, it reads the page only when you click its icon. • Checks run on your device, against data files downloaded from peornot.org. Your searches and the sites you visit aren't sent to us. Published by TechCrowds, LLC. More at https://peornot.org