Clarity for serious families and capital.

Foundation is a private global investment and legacy platform operating across four verticals: New York, Israel, Ukraine, and human capital (Foundation Incubator). We source, structure, and steward opportunities that are rarely available through open channels, under one operator discipline led by Richard Ohebshalom.

Timeless Value. Perpetual Legacy. We measure success not by what is cashed out in a quarter, but by what is quietly lived and lovingly passed forward across generations.

We are not a transactional broker and not a quarterly product shop. We are generational stewards and operators. Client relationships are selective, long-horizon, and built around privacy, governance, and permanent capital quality rather than volume.

Richard Ohebshalom, Founder and Chairman, brings more than twenty-five years of principal-level real estate execution. His family’s Empire Management (est. 1975) legacy in New York multifamily and commercial assets underpins Foundation New York and the wider ecosystem’s operating culture.

Israel, New York, Ukraine, and Incubator each serve a distinct market, but they share the same privacy posture, governance expectations, selectivity, and multi-generational frame. Capital and relationships can be coordinated across platforms without diluting local operator focus.

No. Foundation is a private ecosystem of platforms and operators. Structures are opportunity-specific and confidential. We do not run a retail fund product or public listing model.

No. Foundation is a for-profit institutional platform. Impact and human-capital work (especially via Incubator) are designed as permanent partnership and ownership models, not grant theater.

Foundation does not pursue every opportunity. It pursues the right ones. Selectivity protects privacy, underwriting quality, and the integrity of relationships that make off-market access possible.

Primarily through long-established trust networks: developers, operators, families, and institutional relationships. Most opportunities never appear on public listings or standard brokerage channels.

We look for scarcity, resilience, irreversible value drivers, structural clarity, and alignment with multi-generational objectives. Complexity is not avoided when it is the source of the return and can be governed properly.

Sourcing, structuring, legal coordination, financing interfaces, due diligence, settlement, post-acquisition stewardship, and - where relevant - family relocation and integration support. Scope is defined case by case under confidentiality.

Yes. Virtual diligence, cross-border legal coordination, and remote execution are standard. Physical presence is never a prerequisite for serious engagement.

Introduction and mutual fit, confidential conversation, appropriate confidentiality agreements, data-room and pipeline review where relevant, then custom structuring and execution. Timelines vary by market and readiness.

Foundation works with sophisticated families and institutions. Thresholds and structures are discussed privately; they are not marketed as open products.

Privacy is an operating system, not a marketing slogan. Counterparties, advisors, and vendors are held to institutional confidentiality expectations so ownership and process remain out of the public domain where appropriate.

In Foundation’s language, it describes institutional-grade confidentiality obligations across the chain of partners - so presence and ownership are not casually exposed through process leakage.

Governance-first frameworks, milestone clarity, international-standard compliance where required, and patient-capital discipline. Reporting depth matches the sophistication of the counterparty and the structure.

Investments and platforms are designed so capital and presence can transfer with dignity - structures and stewardship that favor quiet continuity over short-term extraction.

Damien Soitout is Foundation’s CTO and has built much of the technological stack that supports secure collaboration, diligence workflows, and multi-brand platform operations across the group.

A private real estate and advisory platform focused on Israel’s supply-constrained markets - curated off-market opportunity, family home acquisition and integration, concierge/cultural guidance, and agricultural land with rezoning potential, among related strategies.

Land scarcity, demographic and innovation-economy demand, and a market that often prices complexity poorly for outsiders. Off-market access and operator judgment matter more than brochure inventory.

Opportunities sourced and negotiated outside open listing systems - through developer and family relationships - often at terms and inventory that never become public product.

Commonly referenced arms include Foundation Israel Investments (off-market opportunity), Foundation Homes Israel (family homes and integration), Foundation Advisory Israel (concierge and cultural guidance), and Foundation Agriculture Israel (early-stage land with rezoning potential), plus talent pathways via Incubator where relevant.

Prime and strategic areas including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Herzliya, Ramat HaSharon, and related coastal and northern corridors depending on strategy.

Yes. Home acquisition can be paired with settlement coordination, cultural guidance, and concierge-level support so multi-generational presence is practical, not theoretical.

Early-stage land with rezoning and urbanization potential - value created through planning velocity and irreversible regulatory steps, not pure speculation on open residential stock.

Private real estate investment and advisory for global clients in New York City - the eternal benchmark - drawing on decades of embedded relationships for opportunities that seldom surface publicly.

Multifamily repositioning, hospitality and mixed-use, recapitalizations, distressed situations, prime Manhattan acquisitions, and other complex assets where underwriting and relationships decide outcomes.

The Ohebshalom family’s Empire Management (est. 1975) legacy - thousands of multifamily units and substantial commercial square footage - grounds the platform’s operator DNA and network in New York.

No. The platform is relationship- and operator-led, focused on curated access and execution rather than public listing inventory.

A disciplined real estate investment platform oriented to post-war reconstruction dynamics - structurally sound built assets, clear horizons, international-standard governance, and local operator partnerships.

Value creation through precise renovation and controlled repositioning of mispriced but sound assets within a defined horizon - not open-ended speculation on abstract recovery narratives.

Residential buildings and portfolios, partially completed developments, commercial or industrial assets suitable for conversion, and select prime urban retail - always subject to structural and governance filters.

By partnering with trusted local operators, insisting on international-standard process, and prioritizing assets with irreversible structural integrity rather than pure narrative beta.

Valeriia Akatova is a co-founder of Foundation Ukraine and a visible operator and mentor voice across the Ukraine and Incubator stories - bridging reconstruction capital with human capital.

A global talent platform that identifies exceptional founders early - often from age nine upward - and provides mentorship, resources, and a rigorous environment under a two-way ownership model. No cohorts. No demo days. Permanent partnership orientation.

Selected participants receive world-class guidance and resources while the platform takes a meaningful stake in resulting ventures - aligning long-term success rather than one-way extraction or pure philanthropy.

Exceptionally gifted founders of all backgrounds, typically by introduction or nomination. Intelligence, resilience, and the desire to build lasting work matter more than credentials theater.

Yes. Hubs and presence exist in key geographies, but secure remote participation is supported so talent is not limited by passport or postcode.

No. It is not a batch program optimized for demo-day optics. It is designed as permanent partnership and ownership alignment.

Yes. The HQ ecosystem is built so multi-jurisdictional presence can sit under shared privacy and governance expectations while local platforms execute with specialist judgment.

As a portfolio of scarce, resilient positions - not a collection of opportunistic flips. Foundation’s work is oriented to inheritance quality, not trade volume.

Where relevant - especially Israel family pathways - concierge, cultural guidance, and settlement support are part of making presence durable.

Incubator treats talent as multi-generational equity. Families who care about what the next generation builds often engage both asset and human-capital platforms.

Foundation Capital is part of the wider network (external domain). It sits alongside the vertical platforms as another expression of the group’s capital and partnership model - details depend on the specific mandate and introduction path.

By introduction and mutual fit. Serious families and institutions may request a confidential conversation through the contact process. Selectivity is intentional.

Clarity on horizon (decades, not quarters), jurisdictions of interest, family or institutional context, and any constraints on privacy or structure. Marketing decks are less useful than honest intent.

Gateway pages on this site link into Foundation Israel, New York, Ukraine, and Incubator. Each vertical site deepens local process, thesis, and contact pathways.

On Foundation World’s News section and on vertical sites - market notes, interviews, and thematic research across Israel, New York, Ukraine, and human capital.

Use the Contact page on foundationworld.org (or your locale path). Share enough context for a serious reply; quality-over-volume still applies to inbound.

Yes. Allocators and institutions that share the long-horizon, governance-first frame are part of the intended counterparty set - always subject to fit and confidentiality.