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Family office direct investment activity is one of the most consequential capital flows in private markets and one of the hardest to track.
Dakota Marketplace solves that by sourcing, verifying, and standardizing transaction data across thousands of family offices globally, so fund managers can see where conviction is actually moving.
In July 2026, Dakota tracked 61 direct investments worldwide totaling $328.6B in disclosed transaction value. ICONIQ Capital and Doerr Capital were the most active family offices by disclosed deals, each claiming three transactions during the month.
The list below ranks the month's most significant transactions by deal size, sourced from Dakota Marketplace's family office investment data.
Top 10 Family Office Direct Investments
1. Kilmer Group | $3.06B | Real Estate Management & Development
Kilmer Group, the family office of Canadian businessman Larry Tanenbaum, sold its 25% stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment to Rogers Communications for C$4.35B, bringing Rogers to 100% ownership of the Toronto-based sports and entertainment company. MLSE's portfolio includes the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto FC, and Toronto Argonauts, making it one of the most valuable sports ownership groups in North America.
2. Private Department of H.E. Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan | $1.13B | Oil & Gas & Consumable Fuels
The Private Department of Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan, the investment office of a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family, committed $1.13B to MidOcean Energy, a global LNG platform managed by EIG with assets across Canada, Australia, and Latin America. The investment marks the Private Department's entry into the global LNG sector and launches a broader strategic partnership with EIG focused on energy and infrastructure investment opportunities across the UAE and regional markets.
3. Pontegadea Inversiones | $912M | Real Estate Management & Development
Pontegadea Inversiones, the family office of Inditex founder Amancio Ortega, acquired Capital 8, a landmark Paris office complex, for €800M in the largest single office asset transaction in continental Europe since 2022. The complex, located in Paris's eighth arrondissement, houses the headquarters of Tikehau Capital and offices of Mitsubishi, Standard Chartered, NatWest, and CMA CGM, among others.
4. Bezos Expeditions | $450M | Professional Services
Bezos Expeditions, the family office of Jeff Bezos, and Doerr Capital, the family office of John Doerr, participated in CuspAI's $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, valuing the AI materials discovery company at $2.6B. CuspAI is building an AI platform to accelerate the design of new materials across semiconductors, energy, and advanced manufacturing, with more than 45 founding partners including NVIDIA, Meta, Samsung, and Hyundai Motor Group.
5. Vulcan Real Estate | $340M | Real Estate Management & Development
Vulcan Real Estate, the property investment arm of the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, sold Tower 1 at West Main, a 364,868 square foot office complex in Bellevue, Washington, to Preylock Real Estate Holdings for $340M. The asset, leased to Amazon at a cap rate of 6.75%, represents one of the largest office transactions in the Pacific Northwest in 2026.
Dakota Marketplace tracks direct investment activity from family offices across every sector in this list, with deal-level detail on stage, round size, co-investors, and portfolio companies. If you're raising capital and want to know which family offices are already investing in your sector, see it here.
6. Lupa Systems | $300M | Media
Lupa Systems, the media and technology holding company of James Murdoch, completed its acquisition of New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network, and Vox in a deal valued at more than $300M, with the three divisions now operating as a new Lupa subsidiary under the Vox Media name. The acquisition adds New York Magazine's six editorial verticals and one of the largest U.S. podcast networks to a portfolio that already includes Art Basel and Tribeca Enterprises.
7. Bezos Expeditions | $300M | Technology, Hardware, Storage & Peripherals
Bezos Expeditions, the family office of Jeff Bezos, participated in Oratomic's $300M Series A co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures. Oratomic is a Pasadena-based neutral-atom quantum computing startup founded by researchers from Caltech, Harvard, and Berkeley, targeting fault-tolerant quantum computing by end of decade using an approach that may require only 10,000 to 20,000 qubits, far fewer than previous estimates.
8. Claypond Capital | $130M | Software
Claypond Capital, the family office of Indian businessman Neeraj Bhargava, participated in Emergent's $130M Series C led by Creaegis, valuing the AI coding startup at $1.5B. Emergent targets entrepreneurs and small businesses with a production-grade AI coding platform that handles deployment, hosting, testing, and debugging, reaching $120M in annualized revenue and more than 200,000 paying customers.
9. Jefferson River Capital LLC | $120M | Software
Jefferson River Capital, the family office of Hamilton "Tony" James, former president and COO of Blackstone, participated in Norm Ai's $120M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the legal AI company at $1.2B. Norm Ai builds agentic legal technology for institutional clients managing more than $30 trillion in assets, combining AI agents with senior attorneys to deliver legal services priced on outcomes rather than billable hours.
10. CDS International Holdings | $97.8M | Real Estate Management & Development
CDS International Holdings, the family office of the late South Florida entrepreneur Carl DeSantis, co-invested in the $97.8M acquisition of The Ponce, a 365,000 square foot office portfolio in Coral Gables, Florida, through a joint venture with Greenwall Capital. The portfolio comprises two Class A and B office buildings and a parking garage on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, acquired from PGIM with $30M earmarked for upgrades through 2027.
Turn Family Office Transaction Data Into Your Prospect List
Family office direct investments happen largely outside public view. There is no mandatory disclosure, no regulatory filing, no database built by a government body. What family offices do with their capital has historically been invisible to the fund managers trying to reach them.
Dakota Marketplace's family office investment data changes that.
Every record reflects an actual transaction that closed, not a survey response about investment intentions. What family offices do with their capital is more reliable than what they say about it, and Dakota tracks the former. The database is continuously updated as new transactions are identified and verified by Dakota's research team, so your market view always reflects current activity. Filter by sector, stage, deal size, geography, or co-investor to identify the family offices already deploying capital in your strategy.
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