Private Equity Conversations with Fexingo: PE Funds, Buyouts, and Long-Hold Investing

Private equity is on a roll, rolling up everything from HVAC to crematoriums. This episode, we look at a new frontier: pet waste management. Lucas breaks down why PE firms are snapping up poop scooping services, the economics of a $300 million deal for DoodyCalls, and how a fragmented industry with recurring revenue became a target. Luna questions the margins and whether this roll-up has legs. Plus, the hosts reveal how listener support keeps the show ad-free.

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Private equity has been rolling up general practice vet clinics for years. But in the last eighteen months, a new wave of dealmaking is targeting veterinary specialty and emergency hospitals—the high-margin, high-complexity side of pet healthcare. Lucas and Luna break down the numbers: specialty visits cost four to ten times a general exam, and PE firms like VSS Capital and Shore Capital Partners are building platforms to consolidate these fragmented regional players. They discuss the economic logic—sticky referral networks, equipment-heavy barriers to entry, and the shift toward pet insurance as a demand driver. And they ask what happens when the largest corporate consolidators own both the referring general practice and the specialist down the hall.

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Episode 95 of Private Equity Conversations with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna break down the surge in private equity investment in data center real estate. They focus on the specific case of KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners acquiring a $2.5 billion portfolio of hyperscale data centers from CyrusOne in 2025. The conversation covers the structural drivers—cloud migration, AI compute demand, and power constraints—and why PE firms see data centers as infrastructure-like assets with long-term contracted cash flows. They also discuss the tension between tech tenants seeking flexibility and PE funds needing stable, predictable returns. No fluff—just a clear, specific look at one of the hottest corners of alternative assets in 2026.

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Episode 94 of Private Equity Conversations with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into the quiet roll-up of the funeral home industry by private equity firms. They focus on the specific case of Service Corporation International's dominance and how PE-backed platforms like Foundation Partners and Carriage Services are consolidating independent funeral homes at a rapid pace. The hosts discuss the economics of death care—high barriers to entry, recurring revenue from pre-need contracts, and the demographic tailwind from an aging U.S. population. They also touch on the ethical tension between maximizing returns and providing dignified end-of-life services. A concrete number: the top four funeral home operators now control roughly 35% of the market, up from 15% two decades ago. Lucas and Luna unpack the playbook: buying family-owned funeral homes, centralizing back-office operations, and selling pre-need insurance policies that lock in future revenue. The episode also includes a brief, organic mention of listener support that keeps the show ad-free.

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In episode 93 of Private Equity Conversations, Lucas and Luna revisit the crematorium roll-up trend they first covered in episode 83. They drill into the new wave of consolidation driven by the largest death-care consolidator, Service Corporation International, which now owns over 2,000 funeral homes and 600 cemeteries. The hosts discuss how private equity firms like Stone Point Capital and Ares Management are using the same playbook — buying independent crematoria, centralizing cremation services, and boosting margins via volume and pricing power. They also explore a surprising counter-trend: a handful of family-owned crematoriums that have successfully resisted the roll-up by focusing on hyper-local service and transparent pricing. Along the way, Lucas and Luna debate whether these deals are value-creating or extractive, and what the consolidation means for families facing end-of-life decisions. A short, genuine listener-support segment appears mid-episode.

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Episode 92 of Private Equity Conversations digs into a fast-consolidating niche you probably haven't noticed: pet food. Lucas and Luna walk through the numbers behind General Mills' $1.2 billion acquisition of Blue Buffalo back in 2018, and why that deal sent every PE firm scrambling for premium pet-food brands. They trace how firms like JAB Holding Company — the same conglomerate behind Peet's Coffee and Panera — built a pet-food platform called Compassion-First, and why Nestlé Purina is now racing to buy indie brands before PE rolls them up. The conversation homes in on one metric: market share. Independent pet-food brands still hold about 35 percent of the U.S. market, but PE-backed roll-ups are capturing that share at roughly 3 percent per year. If the trend holds, by 2035 the independents will be under 10 percent. Lucas and Luna ask whether this is a smart consumer bet or just another asset-strip disguised as brand love.

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In this episode of Private Equity Conversations with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the roll-up of urgent care centers—a sector where PE firms have invested over $15 billion in the past five years. They focus on the case of GoHealth Urgent Care, which merged with CityMD in 2019 to create a 250-plus location chain backed by multiple PE firms. The hosts break down the economics: how urgent care clinics generate high EBITDA margins (20-25%) by replacing expensive ER visits, and why PE sees them as a 'recession-resistant' asset. They also explore the tension between rapid expansion and quality of care, and what happens when a PE-backed chain gets sold to a larger player. No prior episode has covered this specific vertical—urgent care centers sit at the intersection of healthcare services and real estate, making them a unique target for PE consolidation.

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In this episode of Private Equity Conversations with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the fast-growing world of Dental Support Organizations (DSOs) and how private equity firms are consolidating the fragmented $150 billion dental industry. They examine the business model that separates clinical care from practice management, the economics of rolling up independent dentists, and the controversy around whether DSOs improve patient outcomes or squeeze profits. With specific numbers on DSO market share growing from 5% to over 15% in a decade, and a look at the largest players like Heartland Dental and Aspen Dental, this episode gives listeners a clear picture of a quiet buyout trend reshaping healthcare.

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Episode 89 of Private Equity Conversations with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna look at a quiet but fast-consolidating corner of death care — crematorium chains. They break down why private equity is buying up funeral homes and crematoria: margins north of 20 percent, a structural shift in cremation rates (now over 60 percent in the U.S.), and the death-care regulatory moat that makes these assets sticky. Lucas cites SCI and Carriage Services as the legacy players, then drills into a specific 2023 deal where PE firm Aperion acquired Evergreen Cremation Services for roughly 8x EBITDA, highlighting the roll-up logic. Luna pushes on the ethical tension: is it okay for private equity to own the death industry? They discuss pricing power, capacity constraints, and whether the strategy holds up if cremation rates plateau. No fluff, no hot takes — just a clear look at how capital is reshaping the way we say goodbye.

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Emergency rooms across the US are increasingly staffed not by hospital employees but by physician staffing firms owned by private equity. In this episode, Lucas and Luna drill into the biggest player in this space — Envision Healthcare, which before its 2018 buyout by KKR was the largest ER staffing company in the country. They trace how PE consolidation in emergency medicine has played out, what it means for physician compensation and patient billing — including the practice of 'surprise billing' that Congress banned in 2020 — and why the model faces headwinds from clinician burnout and regulatory pushback. Along the way they touch on TeamHealth, Apollo Global Management, and the No Surprises Act. This is private equity at the intersection of healthcare delivery, labor markets, and federal regulation.

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