The Plan.
The Capital.
The Commitment.

Blueprint Capital Ventures is a boutique private equity firm investing its own capital in value-add real estate and in operating businesses, across the Mid-Atlantic and select growth markets. We commit our own capital to every transaction, alongside the partners we build with.

Mid-Atlantic core Opportunistic nationally

25+
Years Combined Experience
100%
Principal-Aligned Capital
Real Estate &
Operating Businesses
Where We Invest

Real Estate

We invest with conviction in a focused set of asset classes.

Blueprint pursues value-add real estate in durable, cash-flowing asset classes, where disciplined underwriting and active management create returns that do not depend on market sentiment. We concentrate where we have an edge, and we are content to pass on everything else.

01

Industrial

Infill warehouse, flex, and last-mile logistics serving the supply chains of the Mid-Atlantic and beyond. Functional space, durable demand.

02

Retail

Necessity-based and neighborhood retail anchored by resilient tenancy and the daily needs of a trade area, not discretionary spend.

03

Multifamily

Workforce and value-add multifamily, where thoughtful capital and better operations turn overlooked assets into lasting value.

04

Land Development

Well-located land and the development upside attached to cash-flowing assets. We carry projects through entitlements and approvals to unlock value others leave on the table.

Our Strategy

Opportunistic value‑add.

We acquire cash-flowing real estate with a clear, executable path to a higher and better outcome, then do the work to realize it. Four levers create most of that value.

01

Lease-up

Stabilize the rent roll: bring occupancy to its potential and turn vacant or under-leased space into durable, in-place cash flow.

02

Mark-to-market

Reset legacy, below-market rents to where the market actually clears as leases roll, capturing the upside already embedded in the asset.

03

Repositioning

Targeted capital, repurposing, and recapitalization that change how an asset is used, leased, and ultimately valued.

04

Development value-add

Develop underutilized land at a cash-flowing property, or carry a project through entitlements and approvals, so the real estate is worth more than we paid.

Operating Businesses

We invest in businesses with the same discipline we bring to real estate.

Beyond property, Blueprint commits capital directly to operating businesses we know how to underwrite. We both grew up in and around family enterprises, and through years of advisory and brokerage work we have helped market, value, and sell companies across automotive, medical, childcare, service, manufacturing, and beyond, with and without the real estate attached. We bring that operator's perspective to every business we back.

01

Control acquisitions

We acquire and operate established, cash-flowing businesses as principal, partnering with owners and management on succession or the next stage of growth.

02

Structured equity & debt

We inject growth equity or flexible debt into operating companies that need capital to scale, recapitalize, or move on an opportunity, structured to fit the situation.

03

Strategic partnerships

We back operators where our capital, our real estate, and our relationships add more than money does alone, and stay involved where it counts.

04

Real estate-backed businesses

Our edge: situations where a business and its real estate can be underwritten and owned together, which most buyers are equipped to do on only one side.

How We Invest

Discipline before capital. Conviction before commitment.

01

Sourcing

We reach opportunities before they reach the broad market, through relationships built over years in these markets.

02

Underwriting

We begin with the downside. We underwrite for the deal we expect, not the deal we hope for, and we walk away often.

03

Value Creation

We bring an owner's mindset to every investment: the operational discipline, capital, and hands-on work that compound value in a property or a company.

04

Realization

We think in full cycles. We know when to hold and when to realize, always in step with our partners.

Alignment

We invest our own capital in every deal.

Blueprint is built on a simple principle: our capital sits alongside yours. We are principals first, and we commit our own money to each acquisition we sponsor. That alignment is not a policy we adopted. It is the reason the firm exists.

  • Skin in the game. We co-invest our own capital in every transaction, so our outcome and yours move together.
  • Transparent structure. Modest fees to operate, a share of profit only when our partners realize returns. No hidden terms.
  • Long-view ownership. We buy to steward and improve, not to churn. We are patient when patience is what the asset requires.

Why Blueprint

Judgment, discipline, and relationships you can underwrite.

Selectivity

We say no a great deal.

The discipline to pass on most opportunities is what protects the few we pursue. Selectivity is our first form of risk management.

Relationships

Access others do not have.

Ours is a relationship business before it is a numbers business. Years in these markets give us a view of opportunities, in property and in companies, before they are widely shown.

Operations

We operate what we buy.

We treat every asset as if it were the only one we own. The work after closing, not the bid at auction, is where value is actually created.

Integrity

The same through every cycle.

We measure ourselves not only on returns, but on how we conduct ourselves when markets are easy and when they are not. Reputation compounds.

The Principals

Two principals. One standard.

Zachary Lasorsa, Principal of Blueprint Capital Ventures
Zachary Lasorsa
Principal

Zachary was raised around commercial real estate and family-run businesses, in a family active in investment, development, and management, and has built his own career on that foundation. Alongside his work across the greater Philadelphia area, he helped reposition, manage, and develop an industrial portfolio across the Norfolk, Newport News, and Virginia Beach markets. He brings a background in marketing and technology, along with experience marketing and advising on the sale of operating businesses, to how Blueprint sources, underwrites, and operates each investment.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University's Questrom School of Business.

Joseph Battaglia, Principal of Blueprint Capital Ventures
Joseph Battaglia
Principal

Joseph also comes from a family rooted in commercial real estate and operating businesses, and has been active in the field since 2014. He helped manage and grow a portfolio concentrated in the heart of southern Delaware County and Chester County, across acquisition, development, and operations. His earlier career in the financial industry at JP Morgan, and as an insurance broker with Brown & Brown, shaped the underwriting discipline and risk perspective he brings to every transaction, in real estate and in the operating businesses he has helped value and sell.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Elizabethtown College.

For Brokers

Bring us a deal. We protect the relationship.

We are a principal buyer, not a competing broker. When you bring Blueprint an opportunity, whether a property or a business, your client relationship and your fee are protected, without exception. We are an active buyer of industrial, retail, multifamily, and land development real estate, and of operating businesses, across the Mid-Atlantic and select growth markets.

Your fee, protected

We pay full fees at closing. We do not re-trade the commission, and we do not work around the broker who brought us the deal.

Confidential and direct

We hold what you share in confidence and we do not approach your seller behind you. The relationship is, and stays, yours.

Certain and quick

We respond fast, underwrite honestly, and close with certainty. You will get a clear answer and our rationale, not a maybe.

Partner With Us

A small group of partners, aligned for the long term.

Blueprint works with accredited investors, family offices, and individuals who value alignment, transparency, and direct communication. We do not make investment offers on this website. We begin with a conversation. We are selective about the partners we work with, and we hope you will be equally selective about us.