I spoke to a family office allocating $600m a year.
Their main focus: real estate, venture & growth...
They've built an 85-person team designed to deploy capital directly into deals where they can control the terms and eliminate the middleman.
The UAE is their main real estate market.
The USA is their core venture/growth market.
I asked what they're looking for right now.
- Completed assets in the UAE.
- No ground-up development.
- Non-amortising structures
- Equity release on residential portfolios
- Sale-leasebacks, acquisition finance.
- Minimum tickets of USD$15–20M
- Maximum tickets of USD$100M
- Direct cap table on venture allocations
- Fintech, Defence, AI verticals
- No blind pools or management fees
When I asked about their sourcing strategy:
"Just send a high-level teaser. We know what we're looking for and we'll tell you if it fits."
Most allocators hide behind process.
How many tell you what they want on the first call?

