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A family office that's hyper-competitive.

We're the family office of Nick and Cole Kahrilas. We invest our own money and partner directly with the founders, operators, and families we back.

Nick Kahrilas
Founder

Nick Kahrilas

Nick came to California from Massachusetts to wrestle at UCLA and never left. He's built companies across corporate finance, real estate, contracting, manufacturing, and insurance, raising more than $100 million in capital and brokering more than $2 billion in life insurance coverage along the way.

He's a past President of YPO's Beverly Hills chapter, has spoken at UCLA's Department of Economics and UCLA Anderson, and is a graduate of the Executive MBA program at Harvard.

UCLA
Harvard EMBA
Past President, YPO Beverly Hills
Founder

Cole Kahrilas

Cole was born and raised in Los Angeles. Before finance, he raced competitively and took two years off from UCLA to chase a professional driving career. Racing taught him preparation, sponsorship, and how to perform under pressure, and he brought all of it to business.

He started on the investing side, as an analyst at a private money real estate lending fund that closed more than $100 million in loans and at an activist private equity fund working with portfolio companies in consumer products, biotech, and energy. He also co-founded a virtual real estate wholesaling platform that was eventually acquired. Today he works in investment banking on M&A and growth capital for middle-market companies, and leads sourcing and deal evaluation across the family's investments.

UCLA
Investment banking
Private equity
Real estate lending
Former racing driver
Cole Kahrilas
What we believe

Own capital, own the outcome

It's our money on the line, so we only back what we'd stand behind.

Only what we know

Three practices, all ones we've operated in for years. If something falls outside them, we'll say so.

Relationships over transactions

Most of our work comes from people we've worked with before, and the people they send our way.

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