MedCity News January 8, 2026
Matt Holt, former New Mountain Capital executive, is exploring a $30 billion deal to combine five health tech startups into a single platform called Thoreau. The venture would set out to simplify and integrate services across payers, providers and data — and if completed, it would rank among the largest private equity-backed health tech companies ever. Time will tell if this massive consolidation ever gets completed or translates into real value — or if it’s just another bet on scale.
Health tech may be getting a new heavyweight — though the deal is still in its early stages.
Last month, reports emerged that Matt Holt, former managing director and president of private equity at New Mountain Capital, had left the...
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