Operating
DLTC Landscape
Acquisition and operational transition of an established Connecticut landscaping business, preserving local jobs and client relationships, while modernizing systems for its next phase of growth.
We Launch, Buy, and Build Companies that Matter.
Venture Studio and Acquisition Platform.
Capstone Ventures Lab is a mission-driven venture studio and acquisition platform. We launch new ventures and buy and build established businesses, leveraging shared playbooks, talent, and capital to create lasting economic and social impact.
Two Practices. One Platform.
We build and steward businesses whose value endures for the people, teams, and communities that depend on them.
Launch Lab
Venture Creation
We design and launch new ventures from the ground up, turning validated ideas into operating businesses that create lasting economic and social value.
Legacy Partners
Business Acquisition
We identify, acquire, and transition established businesses, preserving jobs, relationships, and continuity, then build on what works to carry each company into its next stage of growth.
How We Work
Every venture and every acquisition moves through the same four steps.
Opportunity
We originate new ventures and acquisition targets, validating high-potential concepts and cash-flowing companies against the same standard: a real market need, sound economics, a defensible position, and the potential for lasting economic and social value.
Strategy
We shape the vision, the plan, and the path to execute it: the business model and positioning for new ventures, and the thesis and value-creation plan for acquisitions.
Resources
We bring proven playbooks, proprietary tools, experienced operators, and access to capital partners, matched to the needs and stage of each company.
Execution
We turn strategy into results, taking each venture to market and each acquisition through close and transition, then driving the operating improvements that grow the business and measuring the impact it creates.
Where Our Thesis Meets the Real World.
A selection of ventures we've launched, acquired, or helped shape, each chosen for its potential to deliver enduring economic and social value, from local main streets to emerging markets.
Get in touchBuilding
EdenWorks Facilities Services (EFS)
A mission driven buy-and-build platform consolidating cash-flowing landscaping and facility services businesses across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Active
Owners & Operators
An education and community platform for entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA), equipping current and aspiring operators with the knowledge and network to acquire, run, and grow existing businesses.
Affiliate
Venture Hub Africa
An affiliate organization supporting African entrepreneurs building businesses that scale while tackling critical regional challenges.
$2.1M
Capital raised and deployed
2
Acquisitions led or supported
2
Ventures launched
The People Behind the Platform.
We have started, bought, and run businesses in the United States and in Africa. That experience shapes the ventures we launch, the owners we partner with, and how we look after the people and customers of every company we steward.
David Owoyemi
Founder and Principal
David leads Capstone Ventures Lab. Trained as an accountant in Nigeria, he has spent 15 years as an entrepreneur, building companies and working alongside small business owners in the United States and Africa on strategy, capital, and operations. He holds an MBA from Babson College.
LinkedInInsights
Perspectives on entrepreneurial stewardship and entrepreneurship through acquisition.
Read on SubstackPress & Speaking
Press
"Building Businesses From Scratch And Through Acquisition"
Profiled
"Through small business acquisitions, New Majority aims to create ownership access for underrepresented entrepreneurs"
Featured
Providence Business News, 2024
"Exits that could help a minority entrepreneur"
Profiled
Speaking
Speaker
Upcoming
Panelist, capital access and minority business ownership
University of Bridgeport, Innovation Center, 2026
Invited talk, entrepreneurship through acquisition
Babson Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, 2026
Panelist, "The Babson Way"
Panelist, "From Certified to Contracted: Success Stories of MBE/WBE Businesses Winning Contracts in the Public and Private Sectors"
Babson Africa Conference, 2024
Panelist, ecosystem-building in African and diaspora entrepreneurship
Achievement First Providence High School, 2024
Career Day speaker, entrepreneurship and career pathways
Babson Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, 2023
Panelist, international searchers pursuing acquisitions in the United States
Let's Talk.
Whether you're a business owner considering a transition or a capital partner, we'd like to hear from you.
Confidential, no-obligation conversation
NDA available on request.