Most investors diversify by geography. The O.H.I.O. Fund does the opposite - using an Ohio-only mandate, a multi-asset portfolio and a local network to turn home-state knowledge into an investing edge.
It started as a modest state bet on Rhode Island's innovation economy. Twenty-five years and 144 companies later, Slater is the quiet engine underneath the state's startup scene - and it keeps recycling its wins.
Baraka Prosperity Partners is putting clinics, operating platforms and the buildings beneath them into one patient-capital strategy. Its wager is that physicians can underwrite healthcare infrastructure with a perspective conventional finance often misses.