Live Oak Bank targets fragmented home-services industries for SBA acquisition lending

Live Oak Bank began lending to the home-services space in 2018, deliberately targeting highly fragmented industries where mid-size contractors lacked a national banking relationship capable of funding multimillion-dollar acquisitions.

“we look for highly fragmented industries where the business owners don't necessarily have a national bank”

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