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Vancouver Laser Bet $180,000 on a Machine Nobody Trusted - Then Built a 30-Year Clinic
A floppy disk, a basement phone bank and one C$180,000 laser became a Vancouver clinic built on repeat visits, relentless training and an oddly smart perk: child care while you get treated.
Annie Aesthetic
Annie Aesthetic is a medical-aesthetics holding company that partners with and acquires leading medical spas across the United States. Incubated by Tucker's Farm Corporation in May 2022 with roughly $30 million of equity capital, it provides its partner clinics with growth capital, operations, marketing, recruiting, technology and legal/regulatory support while keeping founders and operating teams in place. By late 2025 the platform had grown to about $65 million of revenue across 12 medical-aesthetics brands, backed by InterAlpen Partners, Brookside Equity Partners and Plexus Capital.
Felix Steinmeyer
Felix Steinmeyer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cherry, the leading buy-now-pay-later platform built specifically for healthcare and wellness providers. A Stanford MBA with dual master's degrees, he previously co-founded and sold Mason Finance before turning his attention to the underserved gap between patients who need care and their ability to pay for it. Under his leadership, Cherry has grown to serve 60,000+ providers, raised a Series B of $44M in 2022, and in April 2025 achieved a valuation exceeding $2 billion with a Series C round - making it one of the most significant vertical BNPL players in healthcare.