
Nacho Arce Orejas
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Nacho Arce Orejas
@IArceOrejas
Head of Ontier NextGen (Family Business & Venture Capital) | Head of Corporate & M&A—North of Spain @ONTIERLaw






What's something most people think is healthy that's actually not?



Family offices are invisible. But they've shaped the technology you use every day. Li Ka-shing's family office (Horizons Ventures) was an early investor in Facebook, Spotify, Zoom, Skype, Siri, and DeepMind — before any of them were household names. His $36M in Zoom became an $11B stake. The Pritzker family office (Tao Capital) was an early backer of Tesla, Uber, and SpaceX. Jeff Bezos invested $250K in Google in 1998 through what became Bezos Expeditions. That stake is now worth over $3B. Suhail Rizvi's family office quietly acquired 15.6% of Twitter before its IPO — a stake worth $3.8B on day one. He also held pre-IPO positions in Facebook, Square, and Snapchat. Most people have never heard his name. The Newhouse family office owns Reddit. Kapor Capital — built on the Lotus 1-2-3 fortune — was in Uber's angel round. These aren't venture capital firms. They're family offices. Patient capital. No fund lifecycle. No LP pressure. Multi-generational time horizons. One-third of all capital invested in startups worldwide now comes from family offices (PwC, 2022). And yet most people — including many in finance — don't know what a family office is or what they do. F0256. March 30th. West Palm Beach.








