private equity founded 1998 founder terence graunke and paul yovovich headquarters chicago illinois united states products leveraged buyout growth capital total assets 1.3 billion number of employees 35 website www.lakecapital.com lake capital partners is a private equity firm focused on growth capital and leveraged buyout investments in lower middle market companies across a range of service businesses . lake focuses on marketing finance operation and infrastructure specialty services healthcare specialty consumer services technology and business process outsourcing . in addition to traditional leveraged buyout transactions lake focuses on investing in rollup investments around a platform company . 1 the firm which is based in chicago illinois was founded in 1998 by terence graunke and paul yovovich . 2 the firm has raised approximately 1.3 billion since inception across its two funds . prior to raising its 2002 debut fund with 500 million of commitments lake raised capital on a deal by deal basis . 3 in 2005 lake raised its second fund with 800 million of investor commitments . references edit lake capital approach company website lake capital private company information businessweek . www.bloomberg.com . retrieved 2016 08 12 . lake capital raises 500m for debut fund . financial news march 20 2003 local firm recalculates private equity formula ; lake capital s first fund selling out . crain s chicago business october 28 2002 addison receives strategic investment from lake capital . jun 13 2006 chicago private equity firm takes plunge with second consulting firm stake . chicago tribune october 3 2003 external links edit lake capital partners company website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies this article about a private equity or venture capital firm based in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lake capital & oldid 743336789 categories private equity firms of the united statescompanies based in chicagocompanies established in 1998united states private equity firm stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 04 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view