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Lead Lap Enterprises, LLC is a family office and private investment firm located outside of Chicago in Northfield, Illinois. Lead Lap Enterprises invests in buyouts of small to mid-sized companies (with a targeted transaction size in the $2M to $25M range) seeking an ownership transition, and provides growth capital to promising businesses with strong core products, services or capabilities. Lead Lap seeks control investments in small to mid-size companies in the business services, consumer products/services, health services, and the education, marketing, media, advertising, information and online sectors. Lead Lap also makes non-control growth capital investments in promising businesses. Lead Lap was founded by operating executive David F. Zucker, who serves as Managing Partner, and made his first private company investment in 1994. Zucker spent eleven years at the Walt Disney Company where he was President of Fairchild's Travel Agent BtoB media business, Vice President of Programming for ESPN, and later Executive Vice President of ESPN and Managing Director of ESPN International, overseeing its growth to $750 Million in consolidated annual revenue. Lead Lap has $35 million of funded committed capital from its owners. Lead Lap targets companies with EBITDA of $500k to $4.0M or Revenue of $4M to $40M. Target industries include: Business Services, B2B broadly defined; Marketing Services, Consumer Products or Services; Media, Marketing, Advertising, Gaming, Education and Online businesses; Healthcare Services; and Insurance and Food Brokers. The firm is not interested in businesses that are primarily focused on manufacturing.
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