Elizabeth Leeds

Leeds Equity Partners focuses on investment across the knowledge sector including education, training, business services and information services and software. Within education, the firm seeks investment opportunities related to preschool/pre-K, K-12, postsecondary, at-risk and special education, testing/assessment and instructional materials. Their interests within the training field include business skills, professional certification, regulation and compliance training and testing/assessment. Within the business services, they seek to invest in opportunities related to business-to-consumer information and services, business-to-business and professional publishing, professional information databases and research, human resources/business process outsourcing, consulting/staffing and logistics and distribution. Within information services and software, they focus on local software, enterprise software, technology services and sales, marketing and CRM.^^The firm invests in established companies that address high stakes challenges, have differentiated products and services, provide measurable outcomes, and have minimal intermediation by third parties. They partner with premier management teams and provide them access to world-class resources and patient capital to foster long-term value creation in businesses.^