Faculty · Capital
Felipe Soares
Principal, Threefold Development Partners — Capital, Strategy & Partnerships
Career experience
- Since 2008
- Real Estate Investing
- 412+
- Real Estate Transactions
- $63M+
- Transaction Volume
- $45M+
- Private Capital Raised
Career figures reflect Felipe Soares’s work across his prior ventures through September 20, 2026. They describe his individual experience and do not represent Academy results or student outcomes.
Teaches
Capital readiness in 101 · Capital structure, sources and uses, and investor readiness in 102
Sources for this biography
Biography supplied by Felipe Soares, current through September 20, 2026
Background
Felipe Soares brings practical experience in real estate investing, capital strategy, and partnership development to Threefold Development Academy. He is a co-founder and principal of Threefold Development Partners, where he leads Capital, Strategy & Partnerships.
Born in Brazil, Felipe immigrated to the United States in 2001 and has been active in Dallas–Fort Worth real estate investing since 2008. His background also includes 11 years of service as a firefighter and paramedic in Texas.
Felipe is the Founder and Fund Manager of RAW Capital Fund, Managing Partner of RAW Equity Group, and Founder and Host of Deal Maker DFW. His career experience across his prior ventures includes 412+ real estate transactions, $63M+ in transaction volume, and $45M+ in private capital raised.
At the Academy, his teaching focus includes evaluating opportunities, understanding underwriting assumptions, organizing capital requirements, and building clear relationships among owners, investors, lenders, and operating partners. He helps participants connect the financial plan to the development decisions and construction responsibilities that shape a project.
His instruction emphasizes practical questions: What supports the assumptions? What will the project require? Who is responsible for each decision? How should the risks and commitments be communicated?
Felipe’s perspective complements Robert K. Bishop’s construction and execution experience. Together, these perspectives help participants understand how capital, development, and construction relate throughout a project.
Through Deal Maker DFW and his broader professional work, Felipe also shares knowledge and builds relationships within the real estate community. His approach to education emphasizes preparation, teachability, accountability, and responsible stewardship.
He supports the Threefold commitment to honor God, steward resources wisely, serve people faithfully, and create lasting value for partners and communities.
Teaching focus
- Opportunity evaluation and investment assumptions
- Real estate underwriting and feasibility questions
- Capital planning, sources and uses, and financing requirements
- Investor, lender, and operating-partner communication
- Joint venture responsibilities and partnership alignment
- Business development and professional relationship building
- Stewardship, accountability, and decision-making
These are topics taught in the classroom. They are not an offer of financing, investor introductions, project acceptance or participation in a Threefold transaction.
Experience
- Principal and Co-Founder, Threefold Development Partners
- Capital, Strategy & Partnerships
- Founder and Fund Manager, RAW Capital Fund
- Managing Partner, RAW Equity Group
- Founder and Host, Deal Maker DFW
- Real estate investing experience since 2008
- Eleven years of service as a firefighter and paramedic in Texas
Earlier work belongs to Felipe Soares and to the firm that employed or contracted him at the time. It is not an Academy project record, and nothing listed here is an Academy result, projection or promise.
Contact
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Phone
Office
300 E Davis St Suite 175McKinney, TX 75069
Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas
Faculty
The other two disciplines
Construction
Robert K. Bishop
Construction and development executive; carries preconstruction, delivery, controls and recovery.

