Cooper Family Office

What Cooper Family Office does

Cooper Family Office is a private single-family office founded in 2006 by Howard Cooper to manage the diversified global investment portfolio and philanthropic efforts of the Cooper Family of Florida. The office operates without outside clients and does not accept external capital, functioning solely as the investment management entity for one family. It employs between 11 and 50 staff across offices in New York (headquarters), London, and Atlanta, and pursues a globally diversified investment approach spanning hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, direct investments in operating companies, real estate, algorithmic and quantitative strategies, and other alternative asset classes across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Australia.

The firm's investment approach emphasizes partnership with proven managers globally, holding portfolios of over 100 hedge funds and over 100 private equity funds alongside extensive co-investments. Sector concentrations include healthcare and biotechnology (maintained as a long-term overweight for over a decade), technology/media/telecommunications, blockchain and cryptocurrency, oil and gas and sustainable energy, and real estate. The team comprises alumni of Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, McKinsey, Grayscale Investments, and Horizon Kinetics, among other institutions, providing institutional-grade investment expertise. The firm maintains academic advisory roles at Princeton, Yale, NYU Stern, and Stanford.

Cooper Family Office generates no commercial revenue: it charges no management fees to external clients, raises no outside capital, and sells no products or services. The operating budget is funded entirely by the Cooper family to manage family wealth across global markets. Engagement with the broader investment community is conducted through academic affiliations and industry conferences rather than traditional marketing channels. As such, conventional revenue, churn, and competitive dynamics do not apply in the standard commercial sense.

Name

Cooper Family Office

Legal name

Cooper Family Office

Website

https://cooperfamilyoffice.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cooper Family Office is a private single-family office founded in 2006 that manages the diversified global investment portfolio of the Cooper Family of Florida, deploying patient capital across hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, healthcare/biotech, and direct investments worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

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

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Cooper Family Office is a private single-family office that manages the investments and philanthropic endeavors of the Cooper Family of Florida. The firm invests across multiple asset classes—including hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, direct investments in operating companies, real estate, healthcare/biotechnology, blockchain/cryptocurrency, and global credit—through internal investment teams and partnerships with external investment managers. The office has no outside clients and does not accept external capital.

Product overview

Cooper Family Office is a single family office founded in 2006 that manages the investments of the Cooper Family of Florida. It has no outside clients and does not accept external capital. The organization does not offer a product or service in the traditional sense — it is an investment management entity that manages a diversified portfolio of hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, direct investments in operating companies, real estate, and other private opportunities globally. The company's investment activities span multiple asset classes and strategies including algorithmic and quantitative strategies, but these represent the firm's own investment approach rather than products or services offered to external customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Single-Family Office Investment Management Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Various Family OfficescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooper Family Office maintains extensive long-term relationships with other family offices globally. They co-invest extensively with private equity partners, venture capital partners, and other family offices for direct investments and private credit portfolios.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• MSD Capital: MSD Capital is the single-family office managing Michael Dell's wealth and is directly referenced in the Cooper Family Office team data (Rajeev Shah's previous employer). Both are US-based SFOs with comparable scale, sector breadth and direct-investing/manager-selection models.
• Waycrosse: Waycrosse is the single-family office for the Cargill and MacMillan families and is directly referenced in Cooper's team data (Heather Williamson's previous employer). Both run global, multi-asset direct and manager-based portfolios for ultra-wealthy families.
• Pitcairn: Pitcairn is a multi-generational single-family office (founded for the Pitcairn family) serving a single principal family across generations with diversified direct investing and manager selection; a structural peer in family-only capital models.

Broad incumbents

• Bessemer Trust: Bessemer Trust is a large, multi-family office providing investment management, trust and advisory services to ultra-wealthy families; comparable in serving family-wealth needs across asset classes, but operates as a multi-client platform with broader service breadth.
• Stonehage Fleming: Stonehage Fleming is a leading international family-office advisory and wealth manager with offices in the UK, Switzerland, Jersey, South Africa and elsewhere, offering global investment, fiduciary and advisory services that mirror the geographic and asset-class coverage Cooper Family Office provides.
• Cambridge Associates: Cambridge Associates is a global investment-advisory firm serving endowments, foundations and family offices with manager research and portfolio construction; operationally similar to Cooper in emphasizing manager selection, alternatives diligence and long-term asset allocation.
• Northern Trust Wealth Management: Northern Trust is a large publicly-traded wealth and asset management firm with a substantial family-office practice providing investment management, custody and advisory to ultra-wealthy families globally; comparable in multi-asset global capabilities but at greater scale and with broader service offerings.
• Brown Brothers Harriman Wealth Management: Brown Brothers Harriman's private wealth business serves families and foundations with investment management, trust and banking services; comparable in long-tenured multi-generational family-wealth orientation but operates as a multi-client universal bank partner.
• Glenmede: Glenmede is a privately-held investment and wealth manager originally founded for the Pew family, serving families, foundations and endowments with discretionary and non-discretionary services; structurally similar to Cooper as a private, family-led multi-asset manager serving one core principal client base plus others.
• Rockefeller Capital Management: Rockefeller Capital Management is a privately-held wealth, asset management and family-office services firm with heritage in serving the Rockefeller family; comparable in offering bespoke family-office capabilities across investment management and direct/co-invest platforms, but at a broader scale and with external clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles24 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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