What DADA Holdings does

DADA Holdings LLC is the investment and management arm of the D'Addario Family Office, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with additional offices in New York (One World Trade Center) and London (St James Square). The firm makes both control investments in industrial businesses (principally minerals, metals, basic materials, processing, and recycling) and passive investments across diversified themes including space, aerospace, biotech, ESG/sustainability, and AI/quantum computing as 5-10 year macro theses. DADA runs a deliberately small team that pursues non-auction processes, special situations, and heavily structured purchases of distressed or under-managed industrial assets. Ownership is private (D'Addario Family Office), with David D'Addario as Chairman and CEO and Ryan Boland as CIO.

Name

DADA Holdings

Legal name

DADA Holdings LLC

Website

https://dadaholdings.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DADA Holdings is the investment and management arm of the D'Addario Family Office, deploying capital across control investments in industrial and mining businesses (aluminum, magnesia, bauxite, rare earth elements, metal recycling) and passive thematic positions (space, aerospace, biotech, ESG/sustainability).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Private Equity and Investment Management

NAICS

Management of Companies and Enterprises (5511), Management of Companies and Enterprises (55111), Trusts, Estates, and Agency Accounts (52592)

SIC

Investors, Nec (6799), Non-Operating Establishments (9995)

akta.pro primary industry

Family Office Investment Platforms & Direct Investing (PE/VC/Co-Invest) (FSAAADAH)

Keywords

• Private equity investment
• Control investments
• Passive investments
• Family office management
• Metals and mining

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Lauderdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Investment Returns and Capital Gains: DADA generates returns through control investments managing companies in various industries and passive investments globally. Revenue derived from operational profits of portfolio companies and capital gains from exits.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

DADA Holdings is a private investment and management company operating as the investment arm of the D'Addario Family Office. It makes both control and passive investments across various industries globally, with primary concentration in industrial businesses including minerals, metals, basic materials, industrials, processing, and recycling. Active portfolio companies include ElementUS Minerals (rare earth element extraction), Niche Fusina Rolled Products (aluminum rolling), Niche Fused Magnesia, and ReNew Recycling.

Product overview

DADA Holdings is the investment and management arm of the D'Addario Family Office, making both control and passive investments across various industries globally. The company's investment portfolio includes: ElementUS Minerals (joint venture extracting rare earth elements and critical minerals from residual bauxite), Niche Fusina Rolled Products (aluminum rolling mill in Italy), NICHE Industrial Chemicals (chemical grade alumina supplier), Noranda Alumina (alumina refinery in Louisiana), Noranda Bauxite (bauxite mining in Jamaica), NICHE Fused Magnesia (magnesia products in UK), and ReNew Recycling (metal processing in southeastern U.S.). DADA also makes passive investments in technology, aerospace, real estate, energy, healthcare, and other sectors. The company operates the Liv It Up Foundation focused on neurodiverse community support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ElementUS Minerals Joint venture between DADA Holdings and Enervoxa developing processing facilities to extract strategic rare earth elements, iron, alumina, titanium, and gallium from residual bauxite with zero mining impact.
• NICHE Fusina Rolled Products Aluminum rolling mill in Fusina, Italy with cast house, rolling mills, and finishing lines producing medium and hard alloy plates, sheets, and shates for marine, commercial transportation, automotive, and industrial sectors. Rolling capacity ~75,000 metric tons/year and slab capacity ~95,000 metric tons/year.
• NICHE Fused Magnesia Manufactures fused and sintered magnesia products in Hull, UK with 10,000 tons/year production capacity and 80% market share in Europe.
• ReNew Recycling Ferrous and non-ferrous metal processing and recycling business with operations in the Southeastern United States.
• Control Investments Management DADA makes control investments and manages companies in various industries, principally minerals, metals, basic materials, industrials, processing, and recycling, using non-auction processes, special situations, and heavily structured purchases.
• Passive Investments Management DADA makes passive investments globally in diversified industries including technology, aerospace, real estate, energy, healthcare, food, commodities, retail, and media, with a macro, tactical, and middle-market investment framework.

Quantifiable outcome

• Wise Metals sold to Constellium for $1.4 billion in 2015
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• LAluminacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 September 2022ElementUS entered exclusive agreement with LAlumina to process bauxite residue at their refinery in Burnside, Louisiana. This agreement adds up to 15 million tonnes of additional feedstock supply and enables environmental remediation of decades-old bauxite residue deposits. Allows ElementUS to build larger-scale demonstration plant on site.
• Concord Resources LimitedcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 July 2021Strategic partner and co-investor in New Day Aluminum and ElementUS. Concord is a global resources merchant focused on supply chain and risk management of non-ferrous metals. DADA retained minority ownership in New Day while Concord substantially increased its equity stake. Both companies continue to partner on ElementUS rare earth project. Concord founded 2015, headquartered in London with offices in New York and Hong Kong.
• EnervoxacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2020Joint venture partner with DADA Holdings for ElementUS Minerals. Enervoxa, a Canadian green technologies company, provides extraction technology to process bauxite residue and mining tailings. ElementUS will deploy Enervoxa technology to separate residual bauxite into component materials including rare earth elements, iron, titanium and alumina.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Mubadala Investment Company: Sovereign-backed investor with a sizeable critical minerals, metals, and industrial portfolio including aluminum and battery-materials exposure. Comparable to DADA in building strategic positions across the mining and materials value chain tied to the energy transition.
• Koch Equity Development: Family-office-affiliated investment arm of Koch Industries making long-duration direct equity investments across industrials, commodities, and emerging technology. Comparable in family-office origins and appetite for direct industrial and resource investments.
• Brookfield Asset Management: Large global alternative asset manager with extensive mining, metals, and industrial operations, including aluminum and critical minerals exposure. Comparable as a much larger incumbent investor in the same metals/mining verticals where DADA operates.

Direct peers

• Pritzker Private Capital: Single-family-office-backed industrial buyout firm making control investments in North American industrial, manufacturing, and services businesses. Highly comparable to DADA in deploying family-office capital into operating industrial assets with operational improvement mandates.
• Energy & Minerals Group: Private equity firm focused on energy, metals, and mining investments, often taking control positions in upstream and processing assets. Comparable to DADA in taking meaningful stakes in mining/materials businesses across the value chain.
• Lindsay Goldberg: Family-office-backed private equity firm investing in industrials, infrastructure services, and aerospace/defense with operational transformation focus. Closely comparable to DADA's metals and industrials control-investment playbook and family-office capital base.
• The Stephens Group: Family-office-affiliated private investment firm focused on control and structured investments in industrial, consumer, and financial services companies. Comparable in family-office origins and willingness to pursue non-auction, structured control deals.
• Orion Resource Partners: Private equity firm specializing in mining, metals, and energy investments globally, often partnering with strategic operators. Comparable to DADA's Noranda bauxite and ElementUS critical-minerals exposure as a mining-focused capital partner.
• Resource Capital Funds: Mining-focused private equity firm investing across base, precious, and critical minerals projects globally. Comparable as a capital partner in DADA's bauxite/alumina/REE strategy and in providing growth capital to mining operators.

Others

• Constellium: Global aluminum rolled products and specialty extrusions manufacturer that acquired Wise Metals from DADA-affiliated owners in 2015. Comparable as a direct counterparty and as an indicator of exit value for DADA-style aluminum assets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments2 records

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