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Best Clinic Chains Companies in Houston, United States

The 48 best Clinic Chains companies in Houston, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Neighbors Emergency Center.

48companies tracked
$333.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
7have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · CLINIC CHAINS × HOUSTON

Our analysis of 50 Clinic Chains companies

$8.3b in tracked funding; 64% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

50companies analysed
64%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
2002median founding year
56median Fliar Index™
56kcombined LinkedIn audience
86%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Clinic Chains companies in Houston

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Neighbors Emergency Center
Chain of freestanding emergency centers
$150M129 mo agoFunding RaisedSetul Patel
Founder & CEO
2009WordPress Site EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+30—
2El Centro de Corazon
Chain of paediatric clinics
55Innovation top 20%Funding top 39%Tech top 44%Product top 46%
All 7 signals ▾
Innovationtop 20%
Fundingtop 39%
Techtop 44%
Producttop 46%
Growthtop 47%
Globalbottom 29%
Marketbottom 27%
Innovation: 7 product lines
Funding: Raised $120M across 25 rounds · 25 rounds over 20 yrs (1.2/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100
$120M11 mo agoFunding Raised—1994WordPressMySQLPHP+27—
3South Texas Dental
Chain of dental clinics
$36M194 mo agoAcquired—1993——
4HOPE Clinic
Chain of general clinics
$21M14 mo agoFunding Raised—2002Cart FunctionalityWordPressApple iCloud Mail+23—
5Next Level Urgent Care
Chain of urgent care clinics
$6M72 mo agoSeries AJuliet Breeze
Founder & CEO
2013WordPressMySQLPHP+36—
6USA Medical Toxicology
Chain of eye care clinics
$141K167 mo agoSeed—2011——
7Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
Chain of general clinics
—81 mo agoLate Stage—1949SitecoreApple iCloud MailTypeScript+341 expansion · 2 awards
8Nova
Chain of occupational health clinics
—83 mo agoFunding Raised—2001WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+21—

Top 9 Clinic Chains companies in Houston

#1
Funding Raised · Houston, Texas · founded 1994 · 101 employees
$120Mraised
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El Centro de Corazón (El Centro) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and 501(c)(3) non-profit health care organization that provides adult and pediatric primary care, women's health services, dental care, and behavioral health services through its health center locations.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
Innovation
top 20%
Funding
top 39%
Tech
top 44%
Product
top 46%
Growth
top 47%
Global
bottom 29%
Innovation: 7 product lines
Funding: Raised $120M across 25 rounds · 25 rounds over 20 yrs (1.2/yr) · Last round Grant (prize money) (Aug 2025)
Tech: 31 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Devops: Nginx
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2025Grant (prize money)$225K
  • Jul 2025Grant (prize money)$225K
  • 2025Grant (prize money)$1.2M
  • May 2025Grant (prize money)$82.6K
Investors
HRSA, HHS
Tech stack
BootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDiviEmbedlyGodaddy
#2
Funding Raised · Houston, Texas · founded 2002 · 84 employees
$21.3Mraised
▾

HOPE Clinic is a non-profit, federally qualified health center (FQHC) with 4 locations in the greater Houston area. Established in 2002, HOPE Clinic provides comprehensive health care services to all regardless of their ability to pay. In particular, HOPE Clinic serves the uninsured, under insured, those with limited English proficiency, and the low-income. A unique characteristic of HOPE Clinic is its capacity to provide services in over 30 different languages, including: Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, Burmese, Arabic, and Spanish.

Funding rounds
  • May 2025Grant (prize money)$754.6K
  • Mar 2025Grant (prize money)$20.6M
Investors
HHS
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapGoogle AnalyticsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle Tag Manager
#3
Funding Raised · Houston, Texas · founded 2009 · 208 employees
$150Mraised
▾

Chain of freestanding emergency centers

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 3.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2015Conventional Debt$150M
Founders & team
Setul PatelFounder & CEOQuang HendersonCo-Founder
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailAstraBackbone.JsCdnjsCloudflareContact Form 7
#4
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 1993 · 104 employees
$35.7Mraised
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South Texas Dental was founded in 1993 with the goal of making quality dental care available and affordable for more families than ever before. Today, we’ve expanded to 37 offices in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, with more to come. We accept Medicaid, CHIP, most insurance, including Aetna, MetLife, Cigna, Delta, United Healthcare, credit cards and cash, and we have several payment plan options.

Funding rounds
  • May 2010Series B$5.8M
  • Dec 2009Series B$29.9M
#5
Series A · Houston, Texas · founded 2013 · 310 employees
$6Mraised
▾

Chain of urgent care clinics

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 7.8% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2020Series A$6M
Founders & team
Juliet BreezeFounder & CEO
Investors
The Catalyst Group
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAngularBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#6
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2011
$141.4Kraised
▾

Chain of eye care clinics

#7
Late Stage · Houston, Texas · founded 1949 · 650 employees
—raised
▾

Chain of general clinics

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 38k LinkedIn followers — 67.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 awards · 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Investors
TPG, Golden Valley Capital
Tech stack
Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Audience ManagerAdobe Client Data LayerAdobe Experience Platform Identity ServiceAdobe Experience Platform LaunchAdobe Target
#8
Funding Raised · Houston, Texas · founded 2001 · 690 employees
—raised
▾

Chain of occupational health clinics

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2019Conventional Debt—
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDiviFont AwesomeGoogle Analytics
#9
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2004 · 201 employees
—raised
▾

Chain of general clinics

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2014Seed—
  • 2004Seed—
Founders & team
Brian GaugerCEO
Investors
Main Street Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Silversmith Capital Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Transformation Capital
Tech stack
Adobe Experience ManagerJavaZurb FoundationBootstrapAmazon AlbAmazon Web Services

Funding & investor landscape

$333.1Mtotal disclosed funding
6companies funded
31disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
HHS2 rounds
Bain Capital Ventures1 rounds
Golden Valley Capital1 rounds
HRSA1 rounds
HarbourVest Partners1 rounds
Main Street Capital1 rounds
Nazmark1 rounds
Silversmith Capital Partners1 rounds
TPG1 rounds
The Catalyst Group1 rounds

Notable founders

Setul Patel
Founder & CEO · Neighbors Emergency Center
Quang Henderson
Co-Founder · Neighbors Emergency Center
Juliet Breeze
Founder & CEO · Next Level Urgent Care
Brian Gauger
CEO · National Cardiovascular Partners
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,376,151 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Clinic Chains coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH FROM Houston · institutions

What Houston researches in medical devices

21 papersstance +0.1319% breakthrough50% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Advanced MRI Techniques and ApplicationsSoft Robotics and ApplicationsCardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsCardiac and Coronary Surgery TechniquesHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
top institutions
  • University of Houston9
  • Houston Methodist7
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston5
  • Sam Houston State University1

Common questions

How many Clinic Chains companies are there in Houston, United States?
Radar tracks 48 indexable Clinic Chains companies headquartered in Houston, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Clinic Chains companies in Houston, United States?
The Clinic Chains companies in Houston, United States on this list have raised a combined $333.1M in disclosed equity funding across 6 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Clinic Chains company in Houston, United States?
Neighbors Emergency Center is the highest-funded Clinic Chains company in Houston, United States, with $150M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Clinic Chains companies in Houston, United States are funded?
6 of the 48 Clinic Chains companies in Houston, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Clinic Chains unicorns are there in Houston, United States?
None of the Clinic Chains companies in Houston, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Houston, United States Clinic Chains companies?
The most active investors in Houston, United States Clinic Chains companies on this list include HHS, Bain Capital Ventures, Golden Valley Capital, HRSA, HarbourVest Partners.
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