For owners and founders that want to exit a business, it’s about more than just the value of what you have built. It’s about what it could become. Unlike a traditional PE firm, we do not have a time horizon on our investments. Instead, we seek to partner with solid companies that we can help evolve into a better, sustaining version of what they are today.

You want to leave, but you want to make sure the business sustains and grows without you. Finding someone to take the helm that won’t dismantle what you’ve built and sell it for parts while also adding value and transforming it to be viable well into the future is tricky.

Until now. Lakeside Companies wants to work with established businesses that align with our vision of: