Designs for Health
Founder-controlled practitioner brand with the strongest certification profile found.
Status: Watchlist
- Founded
- 1989
- Website
- designsforhealth.com
- HQ
- USA
- Ownership type
- Founder-owned
- Parent
- Jonathan Lizotte majority; BDT & MSD Partners minority
- Acquired
- 2025-10-21 (minority stake)
- Status since
- 2026-08-25
Ownership
RoundTable Healthcare Partners held a minority stake from Sept 2020 and completed its exit Oct 2025 as BDT & MSD took a minority position. Founder retains majority and is Executive Chairman.
Why Watchlist
The only brand of forty-five found in BOTH NSF listings - NSF/ANSI 173 contents certification and NSF Certified for Sport - and still founder-controlled. But the minority-PE-then-merchant-bank sequence is the standard on-ramp to a control sale.
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