Sage Growth Partners

Name

Sage Growth Partners

Legal name

Sage Growth Partners LLC

Website

https://sage-growth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Strategy and Marketing Services

NAICS

Marketing Consulting Services (541613), Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (541910), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Data, Analytics & AI Consulting (BPAHAEAF)

Keywords

• Healthcare consulting
• Growth strategy
• Market research services
• Marketing communications
• Go-to-market strategy

Headquarters

HQ city

Baltimore

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Strategy and Marketing Services: Sage Growth Partners generates revenue by providing integrated healthcare growth strategy, market research, go-to-market strategy, and marketing communications services to healthcare organizations. Revenue is derived from client retainers, project-based engagements, and specialized research initiatives across provider, payer, healthcare IT, and specialty healthcare markets.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Sage Growth Partners is a healthcare growth strategy and marketing services firm that delivers three integrated service pillars: Discovery & Research (market intelligence and data-driven insights), Go-to-Market Strategy (actionable frameworks to assess market opportunity, value propositions, and competitive positioning), and Marketing (full-service communications including content, digital campaigns, PR, and demand generation). Services are sold to enterprise healthcare organizations across providers, payers, health IT, and specialty care markets on a project and retainer basis.

Product overview

Sage Growth Partners is a healthcare growth strategy and marketing services firm that offers three integrated service pillars: Discovery & Research (market intelligence and insights), Go-to-Market Strategy (strategic frameworks for market activation), and Marketing (full-service communications, content, and campaign execution). Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Baltimore, MD, the company serves healthcare organizations across provider, payer, healthcare IT, and specialty healthcare markets. The three service offerings work together as a unified engagement model, where research insights inform go-to-market strategy, which in turn guides marketing execution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Discovery & Research Market research and insight services that help healthcare organizations identify hidden opportunities and avoid costly blind spots through data-driven analysis, audience insights, competitive intelligence, and proprietary survey-based research.
• Go-to-Market Strategy Strategic consulting services that provide actionable frameworks to assess market opportunities, identify unique value propositions, key markets, economic value, and competitive advantages for healthcare organizations.
• Marketing Full-service marketing communications agency services providing strategic messaging, content development, digital campaigns, public relations, and demand generation to help healthcare organizations engage their markets and accelerate deals.

Quantifiable outcome

• Sage's work with Gilchrist won the 2025 PR Daily Award for Healthcare Marketing Campaign of the Year
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers22 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Slice of HealthcarecoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 9 August 2022Sage Growth Partners announced a strategic partnership with Slice of Healthcare, a healthcare media company specializing in podcast production and content creation. The partnership provides a foundation for Slice of Healthcare to expand its B2B and B2B2C content while offering listeners exclusive insight and commentary from healthcare industry investors, founders, and CEOs. Sage contributes thought leadership content to the platform, which reaches 65 countries and has previously ranked in the top 10 Healthcare Business News podcasts.
• Black Book ResearchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSage Growth Partners partnered with Black Book Research to conduct healthcare consumer sentiment surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic. The collaboration produced multiple survey reports assessing how care delivery changed due to COVID-19, including physician surveys and consumer sentiment studies. Black Book Research provided survey administration and data collection capabilities while Sage provided analysis and healthcare market expertise.
• LiriominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSage Growth Partners conducted surveys on behalf of Lirio, a behavioral AI company, exploring topics including patient engagement, AI adoption in healthcare, and patient outreach automation. Lirio commissioned Sage to conduct executive surveys on AI investment priorities, personalization in life sciences, and patient outreach. Reports were jointly released by Sage and Lirio, with Sage providing research methodology and analysis.
• B-SecurminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSage Growth Partners conducted a survey commissioned by B-Secur, a health wearable technology company, exploring the perception gap between consumers and physicians regarding health wearable data. The survey of 500 US adults and 85 healthcare providers found significant differences in how wearable-generated health data is valued by patients versus providers.
• National Minority Health AssociationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSage Growth Partners was selected to collaborate with the National Minority Health Association (NMHA) to mobilize home health workers in the fight against COVID-19. Sage contributed marketing strategy and communications support for the Flex for Checks initiative, a community health program targeting underserved populations.
• EncodaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSage Growth Partners was commissioned by Encoda to conduct an industry survey on financial health management gaps among physician practices. The survey found that only 7% of 84 respondents expressed extreme confidence in identifying revenue risks, and just 4% could detect revenue cycle anomalies in real-time, revealing significant financial management challenges in physician practices.
• ProgenyHealthcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerSage Growth Partners maintained a continued PR partnership with ProgenyHealth, a healthcare company focused on neonatal and pediatric care management. Sage provided public relations and media relations services, and Sage and ProgenyHealth were jointly recognized for Best Use of Media Relations in the 2023 HITMC Awards.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Havas Health & You: Global healthcare marketing and communications network within Havas. Comparable in offering integrated strategy and creative services to healthcare clients, though much larger and globally distributed.
• Real Chemistry (formerly W2O Group): Large healthcare-focused communications, marketing, and data analytics firm. Comparable in healthcare specialization and integration of research, strategy, and marketing, but at significantly greater scale.
• FCB Health: Healthcare marketing network within IPG providing advertising, medical communications, and strategy. Overlaps with Sage's integrated healthcare strategy and marketing services for enterprise clients.
• Evoke (formerly Ashfield Health): Global healthcare marketing and communications platform. Overlaps with Sage in providing research-informed strategy and creative services to pharma, biotech, and healthcare clients.

Direct peers

• Biolumina: Healthcare-focused branding and marketing agency (part of Omnicom). Comparable to Sage in healthcare exclusivity and integrated brand strategy/marketing services for life sciences clients.
• Intouch Group: Healthcare-focused digital marketing agency providing strategy, creative, and media services to pharma and health tech clients. Comparable to Sage in healthcare vertical focus and integrated digital/strategy offering.
• The Lockwood Group: Healthcare communications and marketing agency with medical, creative, and strategy capabilities. Comparable mid-sized peer serving enterprise healthcare clients with integrated offerings.
• AbelsonTaylor: Long-standing healthcare-exclusive advertising and marketing agency serving pharma, biotech, and healthcare clients. Closely comparable to Sage in vertical specialization and integrated creative/strategy offering, though larger in scale.
• GLC (a Syneos Health company): Healthcare-specialized marketing agency offering brand strategy, communications, and patient/professional engagement. Comparable to Sage in healthcare-only focus and integrated agency model.
• Zeno Group: Global communications and marketing agency with a strong healthcare and health tech practice. Comparable to Sage in serving enterprise healthcare clients with integrated PR, strategy, and marketing services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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