Fady Yacoub is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at HOF Capital, where he focuses on companies leveraging frontier technologies to reshape massive industries. At HOF, he led investments in Epic Games, Klarna, Flutterwave, Terra, and others across sectors and stages. Prior to HOF Capital, Fady worked at Digital World Capital, a technology-focused hedge fund, helping the firm expand its investment portfolio in Asia by overseeing the firm’s investment in Baidu and Qihoo 360. Earlier in his career, he was an EIR at Switch (NYSE:SWCH), which builds and operates the highest-rated colocation data centers in the world.

We invest across four core thesis areas: 1) AI & Enterprise Transformation, 2) Next-gen Financial Technology, 3) Computational Biology & Digital Health, 4) Future of Commerce & Entertainment.

Epic Games, Flutterwave, Klarna, Terra

Our Mission
1) We invest in people, not companies.
We believe in backing our portfolio company founders all the way from idea to IPO and beyond, enabling them to realize their full potential.
2) We put founders first.\nWe aim to be as helpful and responsive as possible to our portfolio company founders, providing them with timely assistance and valuable advice.
3) We empathize with founders.
Being founders ourselves, we appreciate the enormous difficulty of bringing a new and successful business into existence, so we strive to be the type of partner that we would also like to work with.
4) We treat founders with integrity.
We aspire to the highest standards of ethics and integrity, including being honest, transparent, and fair with our portfolio company founders regardless of the circumstances.
5) We care about the mission.
We are passionate about backing mission-driven founders and helping each of them build massively successful businesses that have outsized impacts on their global communities.
6) We focus on the long term.
We like to partner with founders who optimize for long-term success rather than short-term gain, empowering each of them to build enduring market-leading businesses that prosper for decades or even centuries.