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Beyond The Transaction

Selling the company you built. Buying your next one.

JCLA Ventures works with business owners and buyers, led by founder Lesa Seibert, a lifelong Kentuckian with more than 27 years of building businesses and serving the region’s civic, government, and nonprofit communities.

Ideas.
Partnerships.
Real impact.

For sellers

01

Selling your business

  • Business valuation, included when you engage JCLA Ventures to sell
  • Exit planning
  • Confidential marketing to qualified buyers
  • Deal and closing support
Seller services

For buyers

02

Buying a business

  • Buyer search and representation
  • Deal and closing support
Buyer services
Lesa Seibert, Founder of JCLA Ventures
Lesa SeibertFounder

Why work with Lesa

Someone who has sat in the owner’s chair

01

She has owned and built businesses

Since 2000 Lesa has founded multiple companies, including Mightily and Xstreme Media. She co-founded Bourbon Barrel Foods and SimplerHOA, owned two restaurants, and launched PickguardFX, a guitar accessories company that partnered with Fender Guitars.

02

She reads the numbers behind a valuation

Lesa began her career in corporate accounting with Kroger and Columbia HCA, so she reads a company’s financials the way a buyer, a lender, and an owner will.

03

She knows the region’s decision makers

Twelve years on the Louisville Regional Airport Authority Board, along with board service for GLI, Venture Connectors, NAWBO National, ACI-NA, and others, has given her strong relationships with the region’s decision makers, lenders, and investors.

Meet Lesa Seibert

Recognition

Honors and memberships

  • Honor01

    Enterprising Woman of the Year

    Business First

  • Honor02

    Small Business Leader of the Year

    Greater Louisville Inc. (GLI)

  • Honor03

    Enterprising Women of the Year

    Enterprising Women Magazine

  • Member04

    Forbes Business Council

  • Member05

    CCIM, KREE, IWF, and OneLouisville

  • Member and Former National Secretary06

    NAWBO

Free consultation

Thinking about a sale or a purchase?

Talk it through with someone who understands the numbers and how much of an owner’s life is tied up in a business.