A private family investment office. We co-found and back companies built to change their sectors — across real estate, consumer brands, technology, and sport.
i. CORE
We invest to outspace.
We are founders and investors in companies with the potential to outpace their sectors — not to participate in an industry, but to redefine it.
We back ideas that bend a market rather than fit into it. Some companies we build from a blank page; in others we come in early as anchor and venture investors. In both cases we commit before the thesis is obvious and stay close while it proves itself.
The portfolio is deliberately small. Each company receives more than capital — it gets an operator's counsel and a network built over a career, the kind of partnership that helps a challenger move faster than the incumbents it intends to replace.
ii. COMPANIES
What we've built and backed.
iii. WHERE WE INVEST
Four worlds we know best.
REAL ESTATE
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CONSUMER BRANDS
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TECHNOLOGY
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SPORTS
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IV. HOW WE WORK
Bespoke by default.
Originate
We co-found and back companies built to redefine a market — committing with conviction before the thesis is obvious to everyone else.
Build
We are hands-on partners. Strategy, hiring, capital, the next round — we treat each company as our own and help it move faster.
Outpace
We help challengers pull ahead of their sectors and stay there — turning an early advantage into a lasting one.
V. PARTNERS
The institutions we build alongside.
VI. THE PARTNER ADVANTAGE
Anchored by an operator, not an allocator.
ig9nited is anchored by Douglas Caraballo, Sr., a veteran operator and principal in several companies that remain ongoing concerns today — businesses that together own and manage several billion dollars in assets. Across his entrepreneurial career as principal and operator, he has purchased and developed more than 10,000 residential homes.
That heritage is the difference. We invest the way we built: as people who have sat in the founder's chair, raised the capital, hired the team, and carried a company from a single idea to institutional scale. Founders don't get a passive check from us. They get a partner who has done the work, opens the right doors, and is in the room when the hard decisions are made.
"It is partnership born from building — and it is the reason the best founders choose to work with us."
VII. THE TEAM
The people behind the office.
Douglas Caraballo Sr.
FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
Douglas “Dougie” S. Caraballo Jr.
PRINCIPAL
Nataly Arenas
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Rony Tamayo
HEAD OF REAL ESTATE
Eduardo Fernandez
OFF COUNSEL INTERNATIONAL TAX
Sebastián Bojórquez, Esq
OFF COUNSEL REAL ESTATE
VIII. PRESS
Our companies in the press.
01
FORBES MEXICO
EverHome Living and the space between mass production and traditional luxury.
02
SPECTRUM NEWS 13
New townhome rooftop launch viewing coming to Cape Canaveral.
03
FLORIDA TODAY
New Cape Canaveral townhomes to offer rocket launch views.
04
HOMES.COM
Builder charts course for Cape Canaveral homes — with rooftop terraces to watch launches.
05
WESH 2 NEWS
Luxury townhomes planned in Cape Canaveral with rooftop rocket launch views.
06
GROWTH SPOTTER
Developer touts attainable luxury in Cape Canaveral and possibly Orlando.