Business Legacy Fund (Business Legacy Cincy), a fund

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Investment thesis

The Business Legacy Fund is Co-op Cincy's program for Cincinnati-area owners who want to retire or step back and sell to their employees. Seed Commons raised $3 million for it in 2020, and Co-op Cincy runs it, from feasibility assessment through building an ownership culture. It pairs financing with technical assistance (up to $20K of technical assistance per business) and is partly funded by the Haile Foundation. In October 2026 the City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, with Co-op Cincy and...

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Key facts

States served: OH, KY, IN
Geographic focus: Greater Cincinnati; the Business Legacy Cincy intake covers the metro area (SW Ohio, Northern Kentucky, SE Indiana)
Status note: Managed by Co-op Cincy; launched with Seed Commons. Up to $20K technical assistance per business. Business Legacy Cincy (Oct 2026), from the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Co-op Cincy and DAWI, is the free, confidential intake for succession support; how intake leads connect to the Fund's financing has not been published.
Capital raised: $3,000,000