Faraz Daneshgar

Faraz Daneshgar is the founder and Managing Director of Veneto Capital Management, LLC, a privately held commercial real estate investment firm he established in 2014 and based in the Wilshire Boulevard corridor of West Los Angeles. He oversees all aspects of the firm and its affiliated investment funds, and per the firm he brings over 30 years of combined experience across commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, private equity, and corporate law. Over his career he is credited with acquiring more than 100 commercial real estate assets.

Daneshgar's background is unusually credentialed for a real estate principal. He earned a B.A. in Economics, *summa cum laude*, from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a law degree from Yale Law School. He began his career as a corporate attorney at the elite firms Sullivan & Cromwell and Irell & Manella before moving into investing.

On the investing side, before founding Veneto he worked as a private equity investor at Shelter Capital Partners, Eos Partners, and Summit Partners, and spent roughly 12 years (prior to 2014) as a senior principal at a large privately held investment firm. That combination of corporate-law training and private equity experience underpins Veneto's stated approach of proactively identifying opportunities and privately negotiating transactions directly with property owners.

At Veneto, Daneshgar operates a fully discretionary model: investment decisions are made exclusively by senior principals with no external investment committee approval required. The firm currently operates affiliated vehicles including Veneto Capital SPV, LLC and Veneto Capital Partners Fund III, LLC.

• Invests directly in commercial real estate assets, not startups — this is a private equity real estate strategy, so "check size" refers to $40M–$100M property transaction sizes rather than venture rounds.
• Targets opportunistic acquisitions with a value-add component across both market-rate and affordable multi-family, plus alternative commercial asset classes.
• Clear size thresholds signal what makes them say yes: multi-family 200+ units, hotels 200+ guest rooms, mixed-use/retail and office/industrial 100,000+ sq ft, plus select vacant land.
• Emphasizes the ability to privately negotiate transactions directly with property owners and to close all-cash up to $100M, positioning speed and certainty of execution as differentiators.
• Fully discretionary: decisions rest with senior principals, so there is no committee to convince beyond Daneshgar and his partners.
• Geographically opportunistic "throughout the United States," though the actual portfolio clusters in Nevada, California, Georgia, Florida, and Hawaii.