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Development Academy

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Faculty · Capital

Felipe Soares

Principal, Threefold Development Partners — Capital, Strategy & Partnerships

Capital — the discipline Felipe teaches.

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

Reaching Felipe

Faculty are reached through the Academy. Messages are read by the team and routed to the right person — no personal addresses or numbers are published.

Email

mail@threefolddevpartners.com

Subject line is filled in with Felipe Soares's name.

Office

300 E Davis St Suite 175
McKinney, 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.