Marc Rose

Marc S. Rose is the founder and President of Paragon Ventures, a healthcare-focused M&A advisory firm. Paragon’s site says he has more than 40 years of healthcare experience and began in his family’s pharmacy chain and home health care services business, Medical Home Care Service.

In 1984, Rose led the sale of the family homecare business to Glasrock Home Health Care. After the sale, he held executive positions with Glasrock and worked on growth and acquisition initiatives. In 1991, he left corporate healthcare to form M. S. Rose & Associates, providing executive search and business management services to the home healthcare industry.

Rose founded Paragon Ventures in 1994 to advise healthcare business owners on strategic options, shareholder value, and M&A transactions. Paragon says it has represented owners in the sale of more than 300 businesses and consulted with thousands of owners on M&A, valuations, and long-term exit planning. Rose graduated with honors from Rutgers University in 1979 with degrees in Economics and Psychology.

• Rose is best characterized as a healthcare M&A advisor, not a seed-stage angel investor based on the sources found. I found no verified evidence of personal seed-stage angel investments or check sizes.
• Paragon focuses on “established, profitable, mid-market companies” seeking either acquisition opportunities or exit strategies.
• The firm’s operating thesis is to “Unlock the Value, Create Opportunity and Achieve Results” for healthcare business owners pursuing sales, mergers, divestitures, or recapitalizations.
• Paragon’s process starts with exit-strategy evaluation, business and financial review, market intelligence, and identification of high-value buyers and investors.
• The firm emphasizes strategic and private-equity buyer matching, saying it maintains contact with more than 3,500 prequalified private-equity firms with committed capital and healthcare-related acquisition interests.
• Sector fit matters: Paragon’s forms and sector pages emphasize healthcare provider services, home health/hospice, behavioral health, healthcare IT, pharmacy, medical supply, medical device, infusion, HME/DME, and related ancillary services.