Hospitality
KnoWhere
A food, travel, and culture brand built from a lifetime of operating venues.
Building
The full story
The Fund
How the family invests.
For more than twenty years the Harris family has built, operated, and learned across real estate, hospitality, technology, and human performance. The Family Circle and our co-investments are how we invite trusted partners to participate in what we have spent a lifetime understanding.
The Idea
Not a pitch. An invitation.
Nathan Harris spent two decades operating in real estate, hospitality, technology, and innovation before asking anyone to invest alongside him. He ran the venues. He built the workforce platform. He sat in the rooms where deals were structured, and he watched how capital moved through systems designed to benefit the people who built them rather than the people who needed them.
The Family Circle exists because the relationships built over those years became too valuable to leave on the table. The operators, family offices, founders, and institutional thinkers who earned trust over years of working together, not months of networking. These are the people the Circle is built for. Not because they were sold. Because they saw the work.
20+
Years operating
9
Hospitality venues built and operated
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Asset classes
3
Investment pathways
Structure
Three ways capital moves.
The family invests its own capital first. Every position in the portfolio represents a commitment the Harris family made with its own resources before inviting outside participation. From there, three structures serve three different kinds of opportunity and relationship.
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Direct family positions
The Harris family deploys its own capital across real estate, hospitality, technology, and diversified assets. These are operating positions and direct equity investments informed by two decades of hands-on experience, held for the long term with operational involvement where appropriate.
Closed to outside capital
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The Family Circle
A private fund offered under SEC Regulation D, Rule 506(c). Nathan Harris serves as sole general partner. The fund underwrites deals across health-tech, biotech, commercial real estate, hospitality, innovation infrastructure, and staged life sciences.
Participation is limited to accredited investors whose status is independently verified before any offering materials are shared
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Co-investments
Deal-by-deal co-investments structured alongside family offices, institutional investors, and trusted operating partners. Each is documented separately, on its own terms.
Open to verified accredited investors when a position is open
Where We Invest
Four asset classes.
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Real Estate
Commercial and residential property. Direct ownership, development, and value-add strategies, held long term with a cash flow focus. Nathan has been in real estate since the beginning.
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Hospitality
Venues, food and beverage operations, and experience-driven assets. Nine venues and more than $50M in commercial hospitality and real estate. A record, not a thesis.
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Technology and Innovation
Two decades of corporate innovation and technology work, identifying growth sectors before institutional capital arrives, and building the platforms underneath them.
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Diversified
Opportunistic positions in consumer brands, athlete and creator partnerships, and other assets that meet the family's return criteria and strategic alignment. Flexibility with discipline.
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Every position starts with domain expertise.
Skill sets and values
The Harris family and its business partners. Two decades of operating, advisory, and research work decide where capital goes. If the family or a trusted partner has not built in a domain, the family does not invest in it.
Technology and Innovation
Venture-backed platforms and enterprise innovation work.
Human Performance and Health-Tech
Research and health-tech, through the Ohio Human Performance Institute.
Real Estate
Direct ownership, development, and long-hold cash flow.
Hospitality
Venues and experience-driven assets, nine built and operated.
High-Value Services and Software
Member platforms and enterprise technology projects.
Diverse and scalable, only in areas where the family or its partners hold domain expertise.
The Portfolio
What the family has built and backed.
Positions held by the Harris family, from founded and operated ventures to direct investments. Filter by type, and by what is open to outside participation.
Funding
Type
4 positions, 2 exits, 0 open.
Building
Active
Exit
Exit
No positions match. Clear filters
No positions are open to outside participation right now. Verified accredited investors hear about new positions first.
How We Got Here
The operating history behind the thesis.
Hospitality
Nathan did not study hospitality. He lived it. Nine venues. More than $50M in commercial real estate and hospitality. From the operational grind of food and beverage to the capital structure behind mixed-use development, he learned how these businesses work by running them. That operating history is the foundation of every real estate and hospitality position in the portfolio.
Technology
The workforce platform Ease placed thousands of people into jobs and earned backing from gener8tor, CSA Partners, Plug and Play, and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures. The deeper lesson was not about staffing. It was about the broken infrastructure underneath the industries everyone was trying to patch with software. That systems-level thinking drives the technology thesis today.
Healthcare and human performance
Family health challenges exposed what the data already showed: the barriers in healthcare are structural, not accidental. Years of advisory work at the intersection of innovation and healthcare built pattern recognition in health-tech and biotech that comes from proximity to the work. That work now runs through the Ohio Human Performance Institute, an HFF Company, on the SPIRE campus in Geneva, Ohio.
Where deal flow comes from
The opportunities the family considers come from relationships built over years of operating and advisory work with corporations, health systems, universities, and public agencies, and from the research and partnership activity across the enterprise. Proximity to the work, not proximity to pitch events.
Operating Record
Uglys Milwaukee
Hospitality exit
Uncle Bucks on Third
Hospitality exit
Ease
Venture-backed technology
Arizona Minority Tech Firm of the Year
MBDA, 2021
UC Riverside
Advisory board
Press
Inc., Entrepreneur, HuffPost, Web Summit
Who Participates
The Circle is open to the right people.
The Family Circle is not open to everyone. It is built for operators, family offices, institutional thinkers, and founders who have earned trust through years of working together. People who understand these industries because they have built in them.
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Operators first
We invest alongside people who have run businesses, built teams, and know what the ground floor looks like. Operating experience is the entry requirement.
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Trust earned over years
The relationships that form the Circle were built over years of working together, not months of networking. Trust is the prerequisite, not the outcome.
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Aligned capital
Long-term hold philosophy. Patient capital. Ethical advantages over competitive advantages. Catalytic capital over extractive capital. If the timeline is quarterly, the Circle is not the right fit.
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Information advantage
Deal flow sourced through advisory relationships and operating networks. The opportunities come from proximity to the work.
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Co-investment structure
Co-investments alongside the Harris family, in the positions the family holds, on the terms set out in each co-investment's own documents. Alignment is structural, not aspirational.
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Accredited investors only
Every investment opportunity within The Family Circle is available exclusively to accredited investors whose status has been independently verified, in compliance with SEC Regulation D, Rule 506(c).
Before You Ask
Investor FAQ.
Who is eligible to invest?
All investment opportunities within The Family Circle are offered under SEC Regulation D, Rule 506(c). Participation requires independent third-party verification of accredited investor status, identity screening, and anti-money laundering checks. These are completed before any offering materials are shared.
What is the minimum investment?
Minimums vary by offering and are disclosed in the private placement memorandum for each opportunity, which is provided after verification.
How are investments structured?
Three pathways. The Harris family deploys its own capital through direct positions, which are closed to outside capital. The Family Circle is a private fund offered under Regulation D, Rule 506(c), with Nathan Harris as sole general partner. Co-investments let verified partners participate alongside the family in specific positions, each documented on its own terms. Full structural detail, risk disclosures, and legal documentation are provided after verification.
What is the expected hold period?
Long-term and patient. Hold periods vary by asset class and position but are generally multi-year. This is not a vehicle for short-term speculation. Specific timelines are set out in each offering memorandum.
How do I access offering materials?
Request a conversation. If there is alignment, we guide you through accredited investor verification and screening. Offering materials, including the private placement memorandum, are shared only after verification is complete.
Is this a fund, a syndication, or something else?
The Harris Family Fund is the family's holding company and is closed to outside investors. Outside participation happens through The Family Circle, a private fund offered under Regulation D exemptions, and through deal-by-deal co-investments. It is not a registered investment company, a hedge fund, or a public offering. Your legal and financial advisors can review the complete structure in the offering materials provided after verification.
What makes this different from other investment vehicles?
The family invests its own capital first. Every position represents a commitment the Harris family made with its own resources before inviting outside participation. Twenty years across nine hospitality venues, venture-backed technology, and corporate innovation advisory means the family has direct pattern recognition in the industries where capital is deployed. This is not a financial engineering exercise. It is an extension of decades of hands-on work.
Who is behind the Harris Family Fund?
Nathan Harris is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Harris Family Fund and serves as sole general partner of The Family Circle. His career spans more than twenty years across hospitality, real estate, technology, venture capital, innovation advisory, and structured philanthropy.
Can I co-invest in a specific deal without committing to the fund?
Yes, when a position is open. Co-investments are structured separately from the fund and allow participation in individual positions. Terms, minimums, and eligibility are set deal by deal and provided after verification.
What does the inquiry process look like?
Submit the form on this page. We review every inquiry and, where there is alignment, arrange a conversation. From there we guide you through independent accredited investor verification and screening. After verification you receive the private placement memorandum and full offering materials for any open opportunity. No offering materials are shared before that point.
Next Step
Request a conversation.
If you are an accredited investor and the way we work makes sense to you, the next step is a conversation. Tell us who you are and what brings you here.
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Request a conversation.
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Speak with the family.
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Complete independent accredited investor verification and screening.
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Review the private placement memorandum and offering materials with your advisors, then participate if aligned.
This content concerns a private placement of equity securities offered under Regulation D as promulgated by the SEC. This is not an offer for the sale of securities. The offering referenced herein is qualified entirely by a certain private placement memorandum circulated by the issuer, and securities may only be offered and sold pursuant to such memorandum and applicable securities laws.
All investment opportunities presented on this page are available exclusively to verified accredited investors as defined under Rule 501 of Regulation D. Accreditation status must be independently verified prior to participation in any offering. Past performance is not indicative of future results. All investments carry risk, including the potential loss of principal. No guarantee of return is made or implied. Forward-looking statements contained herein reflect management's expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Prospective investors should review all offering materials and consult their own legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decision.
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