Bringing Balance, Fulfillment, and Joy to Veterinary Medicine
Everything we do and every decision we make is about making your life better. We’re here because of vets like you, and we’re in this together.
Our Core Values Guide All We Do and How We Deliver our Mission
Represent the Mission.
Serve the industry with authenticity, professionalism, and pride.
Attitude is Everything.
Show up eager, happy to help—ready to make a difference.
Be Gritty.
Work with what you got. Bring courage and resolve.
Stay Curious and Embrace Change.
Challenge the status quo. Act boldly.
Care Deeply. Deliver Greatness.
We win together. We support our doctors, hospitals, and each other. One team, one mission.
All in, All Together.
Empathy fuels trust. Competence builds it.
A trip down memory lane.
Years of experience managing animal hospitals gave Michael Raphael a front-row seat to a growing challenge in veterinary medicine. Veterinarians were struggling with burnout, overwhelming hours, and mounting pressures that were draining their passion for the work. At the same time, hospitals were under intense strain juggling operational demands, shifting client expectations, and a growing need for reliable, high-quality clinical coverage.
As many vets considered leaving the profession due to stress and student debt, hospitals were left scrambling to maintain coverage and care for the patients counting on them. More and more pets were at risk of going unseen.
Michael believed the solution had to do more than just fill shifts; it needed to support veterinarians and help clinics deliver the care their patients deserved. That meant building a new kind of partner: one that could provide dependable, highly skilled, doctor-led staffing built around a shared commitment to ensure no pet goes untreated.
In 2017, he teamed up with Andrew Heller, DVM, to create IndeVets. From the start, the company was founded on the idea that when veterinarians are supported, hospitals thrive and patients get the care they need. The first hires were veterinarians, ensuring IndeVets was shaped by clinical insight and grounded in the day-to-day realities of hospital life.
Don’t be a stranger.
