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 Speak
for Themselves
Doctor driven
The industry is broken, particularly when it comes to the way all of us are treated. And that’s exactly why being doctor-driven is so important to us. It’s the value that fuels us most because, just like you, we’ve experienced it too. And we know it has to change for all of us.
Highly competent & nice
With us, you don’t have to choose between working with people who are awesome at what they do and people who are just generally awesome. We’re talented and kind. And we have a No Jerks policy in our handbook to prove it. Let’s do what we love with people that we also love. We don’t think that’s too much to ask.
Genuine gratitude & empathy
We’re all working hard at IndeVets to make a difference in the industry and have dealt with more than our fair share of thankless days (and nights). Not anymore. We know all the love and care you put into your job, and just how tough it is. You work hard and deserve to hear “Thank you” and “You’re awesome” sometimes. Let’s start now: Thank you. You’re awesome.
Happily breaking industry norms together
IndeVets is challenging the industry head on. Working with vets and animal hospitals alike, we’re taking what’s working and making it better, developing new ways to love a career in vet med and leaving behind all the old stuff that doesn’t work. It’s like spreading Cerenia-like fairy dust across the veterinary profession.
Your adventure, your way
We’re always here to support your goals, whatever they might be. Maybe you want to work less and be with your kids more; maybe you want to get to the next level in the profession, maybe you want to work with a team of colleagues all rowing in the same direction. Whatever you can imagine, we’re here for it all.
A little trip down memory lane.
Years of experience working as a hospital practice manager gave Michael Raphael a front-row seat to the dirty little secret happening every day in vet clinics. Veterinarians were struggling with burn out, insane hours, and extreme demands that were taking a serious toll on their love of their work and more importantly, their mental health. But that wasn’t all, they were also burdened with piles of vet school debt. Many were disillusioned and thinking about doing what was once unthinkable: quitting their calling. Great doctors began to leave the profession, and hospital managers were suddenly struggling to keep up with client needs.
Michael believed that the solution was to build a company focused entirely on serving the needs of veterinarians – shifting the power and authority from practice owners to the vets themselves.
In 2017, Michael teamed up with Dr. Andrew Heller, DVM to create IndeVets. The first hires were all veterinarians – as both Michael and Dr. Heller believed the only way to run a company for veterinarians – was by veterinarians.
Dr. Heller worked the first IndeVets shift in 2018, and the company recently celebrated a huge milestone – over 700,000 hours happily worked by IndeVets across the country, all on their terms.
Don’t be a stranger.
