Today, leading private equity firm GTCR announced that it had closed the acquisition of Cloudbreak Health, a leading provider of tech-enabled and healthcare-focused language interpretation services, in a corporate carve-out transaction from UpHealth.
Based in Columbus, OH, Cloudbreak is a leading video-focused language interpretation service provider that helps patients with limited English proficiency and deaf and hard-of-hearing populations communicate with caregivers in healthcare environments.
Cloudbreak’s core offering is Martti (My Accessible Real-Time Trusted Interpreter), a HIPAA-compliant Video Remote Interpretation (VRI) solution that connects patients with interpreters in over 250 languages across its network interpreters on five continents. And Cloudbreak helps clinicians and patients across all types of healthcare settings, including hospitals, urgent care centers, standalone clinics and medical practices, and helps improve health equity across an underserved U.S. patient population.
Monroe and Barings provided debt financing support for the deal, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP provided legal counsel. Stifel and Moelis & Company served as GTCR’s financial advisors.
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“Cloudbreak has a longstanding reputation as a high-quality provider of interpretative telehealth services supporting an underserved patient population that we are excited to advance together. GTCR has a proven track record of healthcare technology investment and transformation, and we look forward to working with Andy and Cloudbreak’s talented team to enhance investments in the company’s technology and service offerings.”
– Mark Anderson, Managing Director and Head of Technology, Media & Telecommunications at GTCR
“I have developed a close relationship with GTCR over the past few years, and I am confident that the firm’s experience in healthcare technology will add significant value to Cloudbreak as an independent company and further enhance our unique value proposition to our clients.”
– Andy Panos, Co-Founder and President of Cloudbreak
“GTCR’s investment in Cloudbreak will enhance the company’s offering while remaining true to its critical mission of democratizing healthcare. We are thrilled to work with Andy and the team to build on Cloudbreak’s market-leading position in healthcare interpretation.”
– Geoffrey Tresley, Principal at GTCR
