Riata Capital Group
The Firm
Riata Capital Group is a Dallas firm founded in 2014, managing roughly $900 million and making control and minority investments in middle-market healthcare, consumer, and business-services companies. Its principals describe more than three decades investing in privately held businesses, across 47 platform acquisitions and over 450 add-ons totaling $7.7 billion of transaction value.
Its registry platform is AEG Vision, which owns and operates more than 500 optometry practices nationwide behind over 600 optometrists, the consolidation an optometry searcher runs into first. It is the standing exit offer and the competing bidder on established practices in the markets it is building.
For an optometry searcher, Riata entering the trade at 500-plus practices means the roll-up is well past its early innings. In a meeting, know the 2014 founding, the healthcare, consumer, and services focus, the platform-and-add-on scale, and that AEG is the buyer setting the price for good practices.
What It Buys
Dallas, TX. A Dallas buy-and-build investor whose AEG Vision platform owns and operates over 500 optometry practices, expanding through the acquisition of regional eyecare groups.
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
1 deal traced to announcements by Riata Capital Group, 2025, 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.
Nothing newer has cleared the bar in 12 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is August 6, 2026. A gap past 12 months can mean the firm has slowed, or that it has stopped announcing; treat it as a prompt to check its own newsroom before assuming either.
- AEG Vision (500-practice milestone) · August 7, 2025
The optometry platform crossed 500 practices and 600 optometrists, still buying regional groups.