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Industry ownership map

Industry ownership map for the brands behind senior-care referrals.

Senior-care directories often look independent on the surface while routing families into the same advisor desks, referral-fee systems, or finance products underneath. This page maps the ownership paths MemoryCare is currently tracking.

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Network owner

A Place for Mom

Owner: General Atlantic, Silver Lake, and Insight Partners

Scale: Largest national advisor marketplace

The key risk is not a single facility operator. It is a large advisor-led marketplace backed by private equity and growth capital.

Network owner

CarePatrol

Owner: Best Life Brands, backed by The Riverside Company

Scale: 200+ advisors and 20,000 prescreened communities

CarePatrol markets local guidance, but its ownership sits inside a broader franchised senior-care portfolio with private-equity backing.

Network owner

Caring.com

Owner: SilverAssist, backed by Growth Catalyst Partners

Scale: Part of a 7,000+ community relationship portfolio

SilverAssist combines directory traffic, advisor networks, and financing tools such as ElderLife Financial under one parent platform.

Network owner

Seniorly

Owner: CareScout, a Genworth subsidiary

Scale: Directory plus advisor-network reach

Seniorly now sits inside a broader care-navigation and insurance ecosystem rather than remaining a stand-alone directory.

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This route-local overlay does not change rankings. It simply annotates the ownership and referral patterns MemoryCare is already tracking so a future listing or compare surface can reuse the same evidence model.

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Private-equity and strategic capital tracker

MemoryCare separates brand names from the capital stack behind them so families can see when a directory or referral network is backed by private equity or growth capital.

Capital source

General Atlantic

Private-equity owner in the APFM capital stack.

Capital source

Silver Lake

Private-equity owner in the APFM capital stack.

Capital source

Insight Partners

Growth-equity investor in APFM.

Capital source

The Riverside Company

Private-equity backer of Best Life Brands.

Capital source

Growth Catalyst Partners

Private-equity backer behind SilverAssist.

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Owners and capital

General Atlantic

Private-equity owner in the APFM capital stack.

Silver Lake

Private-equity owner in the APFM capital stack.

Insight Partners

Growth-equity investor in APFM.

The Riverside Company

Private-equity backer of Best Life Brands.

Best Life Brands

Holding company for franchised senior-care brands.

Growth Catalyst Partners

Private-equity backer behind SilverAssist.

SilverAssist

Referral-plus-finance network spanning multiple brands.

Genworth

Public parent of CareScout.

CareScout

Genworth subsidiary focused on aging navigation and care planning.

Networks

A Place for Mom

Advisor-led senior-care marketplace.

CarePatrol

Placement network with local advisors.

Seniorly

Pricing-forward directory and advisor network.

Attached brands

Caring.com

Directory, reviews, and referral surface.

ElderLife Financial

Senior-living finance and bridge-loan layer.

Recent ownership changes

Jan 12, 2026

SilverAssist acquired Caring.com

That deal joined Caring.com's referral footprint with SilverAssist's advisor and financing stack, including ElderLife Financial.

Oct 31, 2025

CareScout completed its acquisition of Seniorly

The move linked Seniorly's directory and advisor network to Genworth's broader CareScout ecosystem.

Jun 1, 2022

Growth Catalyst Partners launched SilverAssist

SilverAssist was formed from ElderLife Financial, Care Changes, and FamilyAssets before later adding more brands.

Jan 30, 2022

Insight Partners led new funding for A Place for Mom

That round added new growth-equity backing on top of APFM's existing private-equity ownership base.