Hope Investment Group

Name

Hope Investment Group

Legal name

Hope Investment Group

Website

https://hopeinvestmentgroup.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Angel Investing

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Other Investment Pools and Funds (5259), Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (525)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Investors, Nec (6799)

akta.pro primary industry

Micro-VC & Angel Funds (FSANAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

SDG / Thematic Sustainable Investment Funds (FSANAJAN), Alternative Investments for Private Wealth (Hedge Funds, PE/VC Access, Private Credit) (FSAAABAI)

Keywords

• Angel investor collective
• Community development investing
• Impact investing network
• Affordable housing fund
• Venture capital partnerships

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Angel Investment Returns: The group operates as an angel investor collective where individual members invest in opportunities presented to the group. Members can choose to participate or not in each investment opportunity. The group started in 2012 with $5,000 each into a joint trading account for stock market investments, and has since evolved to focus on angel investing in various asset classes, particularly investments that benefit communities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Hope Investment Group is a private angel investor collective of 15 African American professionals who pool capital and invest together in various asset classes (startups, real estate, community-benefiting ventures). Investment ideas are presented to the group and individual members independently choose whether to participate in each opportunity. The group also co-invests in targeted vehicles such as the PHL SFR FUND I affordable housing joint venture with BrookWynn Capital Partners.

Product overview

Hope Investment Group is a collective investment organization rather than a technology product company. The group functions as an angel investor network focused on community economic development, investing in various asset classes and supporting portfolio companies across diverse sectors including real estate, food/beverage, and financial services. The organization does not offer a unified software product platform or module-based architecture; instead, it operates as a membership-based investment collective with a mission centered on rebuilding economic networks within the African American community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Collective Angel Investment Opportunities A pooled, deal-by-deal angel investing program for 15 member African American professionals. Investment opportunities (startups, small businesses, real estate, impact ventures) are presented to the group and individual members independently choose whether to participate.
• PHL SFR FUND I (Affordable Housing Real Estate Fund) A real estate investment fund in joint venture with BrookWynn Capital Partners, established to acquire and preserve affordable single-family rental homes in historically neglected communities; the fund has acquired three properties including one multi-unit residential asset with an expected 12% cash-on-cash return.

Quantifiable outcome

• 96% high school graduation rate for BUILD program beneficiaries (HOPE-supported organization)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Building Bridges Across the RiverminorOthers · 1 January 2020HOPE Investment Group donated $1,000 to Building Bridges Across the River during COVID to support their efforts to provide meals to families in need. Building Bridges is the 501-c-3 nonprofit organization managing the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC), 11th Street Bridge Park, THEARC Farm, THEARC Theater & Skyland Workforce Center.
• BUILDminorOthersHOPE is proud to support BUILD, an organization that uses entrepreneurship to ignite the potential of youth from under-resourced communities. BUILD helps propel students to high school, college & career success through experiential learning. Since 2012, 96% of BUILD program students graduate from high school on time.
• SurgeminorOthersHOPE supports Surge, the preeminent pipeline addressing the dearth of leadership of color at decision-making tables. Surge educates, empowers and energizes leaders of color who create transformative change in the communities they serve.
• BrookWynn Capital PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHOPE Investment Group entered into a joint venture with BrookWynn Capital Partners in 2018 to create PHL SFR FUND I, LLC. The fund's mission was to acquire and preserve affordable homes in communities that have been historically neglected. The fund has acquired three properties including one multi-unit residential asset.
• United Negro College Fund (UNCF)minorOthersHOPE members donated to the annual campaign of the United Negro College Fund. Member Aaron Stallworth works for the organization supporting the Gates Millennium Scholars program.
• Martha's TableminorOthersHOPE members donated to Martha's Table at the request of member Ellis Carr, who serves on the board. Martha's Table provides food to youth and families in DC.
• Washington Jesuit AcademyminorOthersHOPE members volunteered their time to speak at Career Day at the Washington Jesuit Academy and have also financially supported this organization that is changing the lives of DC youth.
• DC HOPE ProgramminorOthersHOPE members volunteered to speak to and mentor youth in the DC HOPE program, which provides mentors to minority youth in DC public schools.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Backstage Capital: Pre-seed venture fund investing in underrepresented founders including people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ founders — comparable mission-driven, community-oriented angel and early-stage investing.
• MaC Venture Capital: People-of-color-led venture capital firm making early-stage investments in startups founded by or serving underrepresented communities — directly analogous angel/pre-seed strategy targeting African American and broader minority founders.
• BBIF (Black Business Investment Fund): Community development financial institution focused on capital deployment to Black-owned small businesses and startups — comparable African American-targeted investment and advisory activities.
• Collab Capital: Black-led early-stage investment firm that pools capital from a network of Black investors to fund Black-owned businesses — directly comparable to Hope Investment Group's angel collective model serving the African American community.
• Precursor Ventures: Early-stage venture firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in mission-driven, community-oriented founders — comparable micro-VC / angel check size and stage to Hope Investment Group's angel activity.

Emerging players

• NewMe Accelerator: Accelerator program supporting Black and other underrepresented founders — comparable in community focus and minority-targeted early-stage capital deployment.

Broad incumbents

• Capital Impact Partners: National CDFI investing in community development enterprises, with $500M+ deployed under member Ellis Carr's leadership — broadly comparable mission-driven investment firm with significantly larger scale than Hope.
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC): Large national community development financial institution deploying capital into underserved communities — Hope member George Ashton is Managing Director there, and the institution's mission of investing in low-income communities overlaps with Hope's impact thesis.
• AngelList: Largest US platform enabling angel syndicates and rolling funds to invest in startups — comparable angel-collective operating model but at vastly greater scale and with technology infrastructure.

Others

• East Chop Capital: Mission-driven capital firm investing in people, ideas, and businesses that positively impact the world — listed as a Hope Investment Group portfolio company and has a comparable impact-investing thesis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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