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Deal map·№ 01·June 2026

Who owns the software that runs veterinary clinics?

Practice-management systems hold a clinic's heart — medical records, scheduling, billing. Clinics almost never switch, which is why acquirers prize these companies and why the vertical keeps consolidating. Here is the ownership map as the public record shows it.

NORDHEALTH VETERA PROVET CLOUD PATTERSON INTRA CORP IDEXX ANIMANA JONAS PERMANENT HOLD THE INDEPENDENTS — UNNAMED BY DESIGN

The map

Touch any point — every acquirer and deal carries its note and its source.

The map, in words

Vetera → Nordhealth
German veterinary practice-management system, acquired into Nordhealth's PE-backed group.Crunchbase transaction record, June 2026
Provet Cloud — Nordhealth
The cloud platform Nordhealth's veterinary roll-up builds around. Crunchbase organization record, June 2026
Intra Corp → Patterson Companies
Veterinary practice management, acquired into Patterson's software line. Crunchbase transaction record; pattersonvet.com
Animana — IDEXX Laboratories
European cloud practice-management system operated by IDEXX. Crunchbase organization record (idexx-animana)
Jonas Software — Constellation Software
Permanent-hold operating group with a dedicated veterinary practice-management vertical; 200+ acquisitions across verticals, none sold. jonassoftware.com/about
The independents
Founder-held systems, deliberately unnamed. Nothing identifying an independent company appears here without its founder's written consent. House rule — consent before identity

How the buyers differ

Two kinds of buyer dominate this vertical. The scale players — Patterson, IDEXX, Covetrus, and Nordhealth's roll-up — buy to integrate: the product becomes part of a platform. The permanent holds — Constellation-family operators like Jonas — buy to keep: the company stays itself, the founder's team keeps running it, and nothing is resold. For an independent founder weighing who to even talk to, that line is the most useful one on the map.

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Sources

  • Crunchbase transaction record — Vetera acquired by Nordhealth (read June 2026)
  • Crunchbase transaction record — Intra Corp acquired by Patterson Companies (read June 2026)
  • Crunchbase organization record — IDEXX Animana (read June 2026)
  • Crunchbase organization record — Provet Cloud (UK) Limited, Nordhealth group (read June 2026)
  • pattersonvet.com/software/practice-management — Patterson's veterinary practice-management line
  • jonassoftware.com/about — Constellation operating group; 200+ acquisitions; veterinary practice-management vertical
  • Method note: where a record doesn't state a deal date, none is asserted — the map reflects ownership as recorded in June 2026.