You’ve spent a long time building something remarkable.
Now the right buyer is ready to carry your torch.
The focus: to acquire profitable, established businesses, and build upon what’s already working.
My name is Dr. Cheyenne E. Batista, and I’ve spent the past 25+ years building and leading successful organizations and programs. I am now tapping into that expertise to acquire and scale exceptional businesses.
Selling your business is a one-time decision. Get it right with Lumina Legacy.
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I’ll treat your legacy with strategy and care. Sustainable growth eclipses shortcuts and quick profits—I’ll focus on what endures.
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I’m proud that my proof is in the pudding. For decades, I have created, led, and scaled organizations and programs that flourish.
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Integrity, transparency, and accountability live in my every decision—nothing beats a leadership transition that you can trust.
What I Seek
Professional Services & Travel
Consulting practices, training and development firms, and travel services that can strategically expand my work and illuminate a path towards deeper impact.
Remote or Mid-Atlantic
region preferred.
Track
Record
Established companies more than 10 years in operation, boasting healthy profit margins and mature positioning for scaling. Annual revenue $2M-$10M.
Healthy Infrastructure
Experienced staff, diversified and recurring client relationships, and strong brand awareness. Capable management team and support throughout the transition is crucial.
Dr. Cheyenne E. Batista
Founder & Managing Director
Why I’m Pursuing Acquisition
For 25 years, I've been building things—schools, networks, programs, and a consulting practice. Now I'm ready to take on established enterprises that are already successful and make them even better. Entrepreneurship is rich in my family history, so I grew up bearing witness to the drive, direction, and strategic knowledge that bold endeavors need to last. Acquiring established, cash-flowing businesses is the next step in my ever-growing legacy.
What Makes Me Ready
Through my master's coursework at Harvard, my rigorous doctoral work, and a specialized ETA accelerator, I have sharpened my ability to analyze systems, identity and solve for root causes, and am intensively developing acumen in valuation, deal structuring, due diligence, financing, and post-acquisition management. I’m training for an acquisition marathon! And I'm bringing every bit of that preparation to your transition.
You’ll be selling to someone who's been entrepreneurial their entire career and is now strategically deploying that expertise through acquisition.
Your employees? They'll be valued.
Your customers? They’ll be cared for.
Your legacy? It becomes part of mine—proof that businesses can thrive in a changed set of hands.
What I Bring
Since 2018, I've run my thriving consulting practice, Firefly Worldwide Inc., serving prominent organizations like Google, the NYC Department of Education, and the Aspen Institute. I know what it takes to deliver on high expectations, retain noteworthy clients, and manage profitability while maintaining mission.
My operational experience goes deeper. I've co-designed and scaled a single-site school into a five-school network and collaborated on a $50 million capital campaign to erect a gorgeous education facility in East Harlem, NY. Through this work, I have managed annual budgets of up to $17 million and led a staff of 150+ people through growth and change.
I simultaneously own and operate a successful short-stay rental business, and completed two sizable gut renovation projects in prime locations. So, I have come to understand the benefits and complexity of managing multiple revenue streams, and how to achieve economies of scale to ensure that each of my business models works.
I'm proving that acquisition is possible for people who look like me.
By acquiring new businesses, I will be disrupting typical barriers to entry and creating lasting financial security as a model for others seeking to do the same.
This means that your business becomes part of something bigger: proof that acquisition is achievable for underrepresented entrepreneurs with adequate preparation, a strategic mindset, and relentless drive. As I succeed, I'll carve a path forward for those who come after me. That's the legacy I'm building—one business at a time.
This transition should be more than
just a transaction.
Know a business owner ready for their next chapter,
or considering your own transition?
Let’s Talk.
If you know of a business that generally fits what I'm looking for, let's have a conversation—even if it's not a perfect match on paper. The right opportunity might not check every box, and that's okay.
Share your information here or email me at cheyenne@luminalegacyventures.com, and
I’ll be in touch within 24-48 hours.