Dubai Future District Fund backs technology companies and the venture funds that finance them. Its next test is turning patient capital into customers, specialist expertise and businesses that can grow beyond Dubai.
For years, private markets belonged to endowments and the ultra-wealthy. BIP Capital is betting the next chapter belongs to the advisor down the street - and it built the plumbing to prove it.
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.