Examples of Family Offices: 20 Real Offices by Type (2026)

Examples of family offices include Cascade Asset Management Company (which manages assets for Bill Gates), Bezos Expeditions (Jeff Bezos's investment office), and multi family offices such as Pathstone. Below are 20 real examples grouped by type, because the type tells you how the office behaves as an investor.

Every description reflects what the office says about itself on its own website as of October 2026. New to the term? Start with what a family office is.

Single family office examples (SFOs)

A single family office manages the wealth of one family: investments, often philanthropy, tax, and administration. Many invest directly in companies and real estate.

• Cascade Asset Management Company (Kirkland, WA): manages assets for Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation Trust, with a long-horizon approach across asset classes and geographies.
• Emerson Collective (Palo Alto, CA): Laurene Powell Jobs's organisation; its site describes investing in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose, with work spanning education, immigration and the environment.
• Bezos Expeditions (Seattle, WA): Jeff Bezos's investment office; its site lists selected holdings that range from early-stage AI and robotics companies to established public companies.
• The Hillman Company (Pittsburgh, PA): invests on behalf of the Hillman family and the Hillman Family Foundations, as a partner in private equity funds and a co-investor.
• River Valley Holdings (Chico, CA): a family office representing three generations, with roots in building fast-food restaurants across the northern Sacramento Valley.
• Icebook Investments (Calgary, Canada): a family office making direct investments in early-stage startups.

Multi family office examples (MFOs)

A multi family office serves several families for a fee, offering investment management and family services. Some are large firms. Our guide to single family office vs multi family office compares the two.

• Pathstone (Englewood, NJ): a multi-family office offering an integrated advisory platform to families, family offices and institutions.
• Callan Family Office (Radnor, PA): an independent, open-architecture fiduciary firm working exclusively with ultra-high-net-worth families across generations.
• WE Family Offices (New York, NY and Miami, FL): works with ultra-high-net-worth families to manage their wealth as a business, an approach it calls the "Wealth Enterprise".
• Rockefeller Global Family Office (New York, NY): the family office arm of Rockefeller Capital Management, a firm built on generations of serving the Rockefeller family.
• Orchid Advisory (Dallas, TX): a boutique family office serving a select group of multi-generational families.

Embedded family office examples

Some families run their investment office alongside, or inside, the operating business that created the wealth. These are often called embedded or corporate-adjacent family offices.

• Cox Enterprises (Atlanta, GA): a family-owned company that runs automotive and broadband businesses and is building newer ones in cleantech, greenhouse agriculture, govtech and edtech.
• Pharr (McAdenville, NC): a family-owned group with 80-plus years in textile manufacturing that now invests in new businesses, including through its Greenleaves Capital arm.
• Nimes Capital (Los Angeles, CA): the private investment arm of Nazarian Enterprises, investing across real estate, hospitality, wireless and broadband, and clean energy.
• Beedie Capital (Vancouver, Canada): a multi-strategy direct investment platform that manages alternative investments for Beedie, an industrial and residential real estate developer.

Family-led private investment firm examples

Many family offices present themselves as investment firms, especially when they invest alongside outside capital.

• BDT & MSD Partners (Chicago, IL and New York, NY): formed in 2023 by combining BDT & Company with MSD Partners, the firm that had invested for Michael Dell and his family since 2009; it describes itself as a merchant bank to generational builders.
• ICONIQ (San Francisco, CA): describes itself as a global investment firm, pairing investment management and family advisory for its clients with venture and growth investing.
• Dolby Family Ventures (San Francisco, CA): the Dolby family's venture firm, backing early-stage companies in frontier science and engineering, from neuroscience and life sciences to climate and aerospace.
• Pritzker Group (Chicago, IL): describes itself as a family-backed investment firm whose permanent capital base lets it partner with entrepreneur- and family-owned companies for the long term.
• 1248 Partners (Kansas City, MO): the private equity manager of 1248 Holdings, a multi-generational family office.

Virtual and outsourced family offices

Smaller families increasingly use an outsourced structure: an advisor coordinates specialists without a dedicated staff. There are few public names to cite because the model is private by design. See our guide on family office structure.

What the examples have in common for a capital raiser

Each office states, somewhere public, what it invests in. That stated domain is the single most useful filter when you build a target list. It is also what our database tags for every office.

• Our famous family offices post covers the best-known names in more depth.
• Our family office websites post shows 50 more offices and what their sites say.
• Our city and domain posts cover many less famous offices.
• Our guide to how family offices make money explains how each type is funded.

FAQ

What is an example of a single family office?

Cascade Asset Management Company manages assets for Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation Trust, and Bezos Expeditions is Jeff Bezos's investment office. Both are single family offices: each manages the wealth of one family, covering investments and often philanthropy, tax, and administration. Many single family offices invest directly in companies and real estate.

What is an example of a multi family office?

Pathstone, Callan Family Office, WE Family Offices, Rockefeller Global Family Office, and Orchid Advisory are multi family offices. Each serves several families for a fee, offering investment management and family services. Some, such as Rockefeller Global Family Office, sit inside a larger wealth firm; others, such as Orchid Advisory, are boutiques.

What is an embedded family office?

An embedded family office runs alongside, or inside, the operating business that created the family's wealth. Cox Enterprises is a family-owned company building new businesses next to its core ones. Nimes Capital is the private investment arm of Nazarian Enterprises, and Beedie Capital manages alternative investments for Beedie, a real estate developer.

Why do some family offices call themselves investment firms?

Many family offices present themselves as investment firms, especially when they invest alongside outside capital. Examples include BDT & MSD Partners, ICONIQ, Dolby Family Ventures, Pritzker Group, and 1248 Partners. Each firm's own website states what it backs, from frontier science to long-term partnerships with family-owned companies.

The bottom line for a capital raiser

If you need family offices in your market with their investment domains and decision-makers, beyond a handful of famous names, the Full USA Database and Full Worldwide Database are built for that. The free sample shows the format.

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