Roper Technologies Acquires CentralReach for $1.65 Billion
CentralReach, vital to ABA practices, manages data on nearly a million autistic children amid rising scrutiny over governance and security.
Industry Profile
Already Autism Health Expands Rapidly with Three Major Acquisitions
The Charlotte-based ABA provider has quickly grown into a leading player in the industry, fueled by strategic investments and acquisitions.
Edgeview Partners Transforms into Piper Sandler’s M&A Powerhouse
The Charlotte-based advisory firm, known for 77 transactions, now shapes healthcare M&A through Piper Sandler's dedicated bankers in behavioral health.
Mertz Taggart Leads ABA M&A Insights with Quarterly Reports
The Florida-based advisory firm has become the most cited source for ABA deal market analysis, with over 160 healthcare transactions.
Autism Speaks Dominates U.S. Autism Advocacy Amid Ongoing Criticism
With over 1.5 million monthly visitors, Autism Speaks shapes the ABA landscape while facing significant scrutiny from various stakeholders.
Berkery Noyes Targets Behavioral Health in Bold M&A Move
The New York investment bank expands its advisory services into the ABA sector, leveraging decades of expertise in technology and media.
Robert W. Baird: The Milwaukee-Based Employee-Owned Firm Whose Baird Capital Has Invested Directly in ABA—and Whose Investment Banking Arm Covers Healthcare Services M&A Broadly
Robert W. Baird is one of the most distinctive names in the ABA advisory landscape because of a specific institutional characteristic that no other investment bank in this series shares: Baird Capital,…
Lincoln International: The Global Middle Market Boutique Whose Healthcare Services Practice – and ABA-Inclusive Behavioral Health Coverage – Reaches Buyers on Four Continents
Lincoln International is one of the most active global middle market M&A advisory firms in the world, with a healthcare services practice that covers behavioral health including applied behavior analysis. Founded in…
VERTESS Was Named the #1 Lower Middle Market Investment Bank by Axial and Has Built a Dedicated ABA and I/DD Transaction Practice
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas with offices across 11 cities, VERTESS is a healthcare-focused M&A advisory firm that was named the number one lower middle market investment bank for Q1 2024 by…
Drew Taff Moves Healthcare M&A From the Middle Market to the Closing Table
He started as an analyst at a boutique healthcare bank in Atlanta, rode an acquisition into a group with one of the largest banks in the country, and has spent his entire…
ABA Technologies and Operant Innovations: How a Melbourne, Florida, Company Built ABA’s Most Influential Professional Development Pipeline
Founded in 1997 by the late Dr. Jose Martinez-Diaz, ABA Technologies has grown from a Florida Institute of Technology partnership into a national platform for online ABA education, continuing education, and professional…
Eileen Shaklee Built Autism with a Side of Fries into One of the Longest-Running Parent Advocacy Platforms in the Autism Community
Known to nearly 100,000 Facebook followers as Mama Fry, Eileen Shaklee has spent more than a decade translating the daily realities of raising an autistic son into a humor-driven, community-building media presence.…
Matt Cicoria and the Behavioral Observations Podcast: A Decade of Long-Form Conversations That Shaped ABA’s Professional Culture
Since 2016, Matt Cicoria has hosted the Behavioral Observations Podcast, an interview-based show that has become one of the most widely listened-to ABA podcasts among clinicians. With more than 200 episodes and…
The Braff Group: The Firm That Prices ABA Deals – and Has for 25 Years
No advisory firm has shaped the ABA M&A market longer or more visibly than The Braff Group. With more than 375 completed healthcare transactions and the most widely cited deal data in…
Mertz Taggart: The Behavioral Health Boutique That Keeps Setting the Offer Record
Naples-based Mertz Taggart has built one of the most active behavioral health M&A practices in the country, publishing the quarterly market reports that compete most directly with The Braff Group’s data and…
Two Rhodes Scholars, One Conviction: Cortica Is Building the Autism Care Model That the Rest of the Industry Hasn’t Figured Out How to Pay For Yet
Neil Hattangadi and Suzanne Goh met as Rhodes Scholars at Harvard Medical School, married, and spent years working separately — he in medical devices and hedge funds, she in a clinic that…
Action Behavior Centers Has Hyper-Scaled — And Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
Founded in 2016 by a husband-and-wife team with no previous healthcare business experience, Action Behavior Centers has grown from a single clinic in Austin into a nationwide platform operating in nine states,…
From Panic Attacks to Power Broker: How Solome Tibebu Built Behavioral Health Tech Into the Field’s Biggest Tent
She spent her Friday nights in high school at Barnes & Noble reading about OCD — then turned two decades of lived experience into the nation’s largest behavioral health technology community, while…
Michele Silcox-Beal Wrote the Book on ABA Revenue Cycle Management
She spent two decades mastering accounting across industries before walking into a behavioral health company and spotting a gap that didn’t yet have a name — then built one of the country’s…
From Seatbelt Handbags to Session Notes: How Nicole Sands Built the ABA Industry’s Go-To Bookkeeper
She spent 13 years scaling a fashion startup, survived SBA loan audits with Moss Adams, and sold her generalist bookkeeping firm to go all-in on ABA—all while running a 22-acre farm animal…
Rose Griffin Bridged ABA’s Deepest Divide
She’s one of fewer than 500 professionals worldwide who hold both SLP and BCBA certifications. She built a 250-episode podcast, a nationally distributed therapy product, a 500-member professional development platform—and a forthcoming…
Leila Farshchian’s Experience in Education and Autism Services Shaped CircaThera
A formative encounter with autism at 15 sparked a 25-year career that would produce one of New Jersey’s top autism programs, a 1,500+ curriculum AI-powered clinical platform built with support from the…
Molly Ola Pinney Took ABA Global
She moved to Ghana at 23, founded a nonprofit that now operates across 20 countries, rang the NASDAQ bell, won Columbia’s Medal for Excellence, built a business coaching practice with her wife—and…
Liat Sacks Turned a Lupus Diagnosis Into ABA’s Most Irreverent Empire
She woke up one morning and couldn’t feel her hands. Seven years later, she’d built a test prep company that helped 10,000 students pass the BCBA exam, a podcast with nearly 5…
SILNA uses AI to revolutionize the process of obtaining ABA authorizations. And it is mind boggling.
They met as teenagers in Utah, built careers at Ramp and Truework, raised $27 million from Accel and Bain Capital Ventures before writing a single press release—and now Silna Health is processing…
Meaghan Timko Built a Career Bridging the Gap Between ABA and the World Beyond It
She founded an ABA practice at 28, consulted for private equity firms, co-wrote an Amazon #1 bestseller on neurodiversity transition planning, helped architect a workforce development program in her local school district,…