Sarasota, Florida
Investor-owner-operator acquiring independent healthcare and essential‑services businesses in the Sarasota–Tampa Bay region.
SanVia Ventures acquires and personally operates well-run independent businesses in two areas: healthcare practices and essential-services trades. We’re looking for strong fundamentals, durable customer and patient relationships, and room to grow — a business to keep, not a listing to flip.
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We operate. We don’t just invest.
SanVia Ventures pursues two complementary buy-boxes: independent healthcare practices and essential-services trades businesses in the Sarasota–Tampa Bay region, one of the fastest-growing markets in the country. One of our co-principals brings a surgical and clinical background, giving us a first-hand read on how healthcare practices actually run. The other brings two decades leading data, analytics, and operational transformation at Fortune 100 scale — the general-management discipline that licensed trades businesses (HVAC, fire & life safety, pest control, plumbing, electrical) need from an owner-operator. Together, that gives us the range to run either kind of business directly, rather than manage it from a distance.
Unlike institutional buyers, private equity platforms, or search funds backed by investor committees, we are individual, hands-on operators. One of us will step in personally to run the business day-to-day — not delegate to a hired executive layer answering to outside investors.
We operate, not just invest
Direct, personal, full-time involvement in the business — not a portfolio company managed from a distance.
No investment committee
We make decisions directly, without multi-layer fund approval slowing things down.
Patient capital, no exit clock
We’re not working against a three-to-five-year fund cycle. We’re buying to keep.
Local, not remote
We live in the Sarasota area and are staying — this isn’t a distant holding.
The Operators
Sailash & Vini Mani
Sailash and Vini live in Osprey, Florida, along the Sarasota coast, where they’re raising their two children and building a life centered on family, community, and meaningful work.
Sailash Mani
Operations & Business Transformation
Education
- MBA (Finance, Entrepreneurship) | Kellogg School of Management | Northwestern University, Chicago
- MS (Electrical Engineering) | Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering | University of Florida, Gainesville
Sailash is a husband, father, and business leader who grew up around his father’s bespoke suit tailoring business in India, managing skilled tailors, cutters, and sales staff from an early age. He moved to and has been based in the US since 2003. Two university degrees and several US-based corporate relocations later, Sailash and his family chose to permanently settle in Sarasota for its warm weather and access to Pine View, one of the nation’s top-rated schools for gifted students.
His career as a data analytics transformation leader spanned multiple industries and companies, anchored by a rigorous, outcomes-first philosophy and a focus on measurable commercial impact. After his most recent role as Head of BI Data Products & Transformation at Charter Communications, Sailash left behind a successful 20-year corporate career to become an entrepreneur, founding SanVia Home, a soft home furnishings eCommerce business, and more recently SanVia Ventures, focused on acquiring and operating SMBs.
Sailash’s versatility and experience at both Fortune 100 scale and as a hands-on startup founder positions him strategically well for an SMB acquisition. He brings the operating discipline to run a licensed trades or essential-services business day to day — overseeing field operations, licensed-qualifier staff, and the P&L — along with the care, vision, and commitment required to steward it for the long term.
Outside of the search, Sailash enjoys tennis, pickleball, biking, trips to the beach, and spending time with his family.
Vini Mani
Physician and Healthcare Operator
Education
- Clinical Research | Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery | University of California, Irvine
- MS (Otolaryngology Surgery) | KLE J N Medical College, India
- MBBS (MD equivalent) | Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India
Vini is a wife, mother, and physician whose path has taken her from Abu Dhabi to India’s top medical schools, and eventually to Sarasota, Florida, where she and her husband, Sailash, are raising their two children.
Her career began in operating rooms and academic medical centers, including a surgical residency in Otolaryngology (ENT), followed by clinical research at UC Irvine Health, where she published several papers in peer-reviewed medical journals. That foundation gave her a firsthand understanding of how healthcare businesses actually run — and where they break.
Since stepping back from clinical practice, Vini has channeled that same discipline into building SanVia. She serves as Co-Principal of SanVia Ventures, leading SMB acquisition search, and as Creative Director of SanVia Home, where she designs decorative throw pillows sold on Amazon. Her clinical background gives her a distinct lens most acquirers lack — one focused on safeguarding the long-term operational integrity of the businesses she helps steward.
Outside of the search, Vini enjoys curling up with a good book, spends time drawing and painting with her kids, and loves exploring local parks, playgrounds, and the outdoors with her family.
Together, Sailash and Vini bring a combination of corporate strategy, operational leadership, and clinical expertise — equipping us to acquire and run either a healthcare practice or a licensed trades business, with the intention of doing so, in Sarasota, for years to come.
The Process
A straightforward path to a transition
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01
Understand
We begin with conversations to learn about your business, its people, its financials, and what matters most to you in a transition.
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Diligence
After an initial offer, we move into deeper diligence across finance, operations, and legal — always in a way that respects your time and confidentiality.
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Contracting
We finalize transaction details and build a clear transition plan for continuity — for your team, your customers, and you.
What We’re Looking For
Our two buy-boxes
Buy-Box 1: Healthcare
- Med spas & aesthetics
- Longevity & functional medicine
- Diagnostic imaging centers
- Clinical & diagnostic labs
- Urgent care, home health, physical therapy, sleep medicine & behavioral health
- Medical practices (pediatrics, primary care, specialty)
- Dental practices & DSOs
- Also open to dermatology, ophthalmology, and other cash-pay or outpatient specialty practices with strong recurring patient demand.
Buy-Box 2: Trades & Essential Services
- HVAC service & maintenance (commercial & residential)
- Fire protection & life safety
- Pest control
- Testing, inspection & certification
- Security, alarm & low-voltage (recurring monitoring)
- Pool service & repair
- Plumbing, electrical & generator service
- Commercial refrigeration service
- Also open to water treatment and elevator service. Storm-driven categories (restoration, roofing) considered selectively, underwritten on a multi-year average.
Geography
- Southwest & West Central Florida
- Sarasota County
- Manatee County
- Charlotte County
- Hillsborough County
- Pinellas County
- Lee County
- Hardee County
- DeSoto County
- Also open statewide in Florida for semi-absentee opportunities (established GM, medical director, or licensed qualifier in place)
Deal Profile (Both Buy-Boxes)
- $1M–$2.5Mannual EBITDA
- 10+ yrsin business
- Healthcarecash-pay or concierge-membership payer mix preferred over insurance- or Medicaid-dependent
- Tradesrecurring contract-, route- or service-plan revenue preferred over one-time project work
- Ownedreal estate or owned equipment/fleet preferred
- Bench strengthestablished management team, provider, or licensed qualifier in place, not solely dependent on the current owner
Get in Touch
Let’s start a conversation.
Whether you’re a broker with a healthcare or trades business listing, an owner considering a transition, or just want to learn more about SanVia Ventures — we’d like to hear from you.
Phone
941-299-9825