Kaufman & Company is a private investment and holding firm founded by Daniel Kaufman, integrating real estate development, private credit, venture investment, and infrastructure under one roof — ten operating companies built to be run for the long term, not sold on a fund’s ten-year clock.
Kaufman & Company is a d/b/a of Kaufman Family Office LLC and Kaufman Real Estate & Consulting LLC.
Respect, open doors, and showing up for each other, in good times and bad. We communicate the good news and the bad, on the same timeline.
We tell the truth, honor our promises, own our mistakes, and pay our bills — even when a softer version would be easier to hear.
High expectations, real execution, smart risks, and rewarding excellence — we focus on execution over talk.
Kaufman & Company is a private investment and holding firm built to do one thing well: build enduring businesses. Over more than 25 years, this practitioner-led approach — grounded in ground-level deal experience rather than theory — has driven investment across seven equity funds, resulting in over $2 billion in property investments and the financing or development of more than 10,000 housing units.
A builder, problem solver, and visionary leader with 25+ years of real estate experience across residential, commercial, mixed-use, and hospitality sectors nationwide — overseeing $2B+ in project value and thousands of residential units across affordable, mixed-income, and market-rate communities. He started building, lending, and investing in real estate in Detroit in 1992, and has since worked across the Mountain West, Texas, Florida, Vermont, and the Northeast.
“You don’t need another opinion. You need someone who’s done it.”
“The number I care most about is not project value or units delivered. It is how many of the people I have done business with would work with me again.”
