Knox Lane
The Firm
Knox Lane is a San Francisco investment firm founded in 2019 by a team that had worked together for years, built around an investor-operator approach. It partners with founders and management of growth-oriented businesses in the services and consumer sectors across North America, and works alongside them on the operating changes that build value.
In this registry it is the buyer that took Cross Country Healthcare private in 2026, moving one of the country's largest healthcare-staffing companies off the public market to build it by acquisition. That is a scale of deal well above a searcher's own, but a clear signal of where institutional capital sees consolidation.
For a searcher in staffing or services, Knox Lane is a reminder that strong regional operators eventually meet buyers writing nine-figure checks. In a meeting, know the 2019 founding, the investor-operator framing, the services-and-consumer focus, and that its interest signals a trade consolidating from the top down.
Read again in September 2026: the Cross Country purchase closed in July with its locums division carved out to the firm's other staffing platform the same day. The newsroom prints its dates as a month and a year only, so the three rows since carry months, and the September item is a security integrator in another trade.
What It Buys
San Francisco, California. A growth-oriented firm that took Cross Country Healthcare private, moving one of the largest healthcare staffing companies off the public market into a platform it keeps building by acquisition.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
4 deals traced to announcements by Knox Lane, 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- SAGE Integration Holdings, LLC · September 2026
A national security systems integrator taken as a majority stake, the release says acquired; not staffing.
- Cross Country Healthcare's locums division (into All Star Healthcare Solutions) · July 2026
The locum tenens division carved out to the firm's Florida staffing platform as the parent purchase closed.
- Cross Country Healthcare (closing) · July 2026
The listed healthcare staffing company's purchase completed, with a new chief executive named on the day.
- Cross Country Healthcare · May 6, 2026
A $437M all-cash take-private of the Nasdaq-listed healthcare staffing company, kept operating under its own brand as a platform.