Family office list: build your own, with the person who decides
The short answer
A ready-made family office list mixes offices that invest their own money with offices that manage other people's, and it rarely says who to write to. For a raise, you want single-family offices that invest in your kind of deal, and the person who runs them.
Wisemation builds it from one sentence, like "Single-family offices in the UK that invest in software startups": the offices, the person who runs each one, a work email checked live, and emails written for them.
Describe the family offices you want. Get the people who run them.
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1 sentencedescribes the offices you want
3 partsthe kind of office, what it invests in, and where
0 lead creditsfor people who do not fit your sentence
What is a family office?
A family office is a private company that manages the money of one wealthy family (a single-family office) or of several (a multi-family office). A single-family office invests the family's own money, often directly in private companies.
That is why founders and fund managers raising money look for them: the person who runs a single-family office usually decides with the family's own money, without an investment committee of outside clients.
What is wrong with a ready-made family office list?
Search "family office list" and Google's first page shows a blog post with 54 names, LinkedIn posts, PDFs on Scribd, a directory of 448 UK firms and paid databases such as FINTRX and Dakota.
A list made for everyone mixes single-family offices with multi-family offices and wealth managers, which serve outside clients and use the same words. For a raise, only the first kind invests its own money. And a list rarely says who in the office to write to.
How do you build a family office list for a raise?
Describe the offices in one sentence: the kind, what they invest in, and where. The search finds the offices first, then the principal or the person who runs investments, with a work email checked live.
Part of the sentence
Why it matters
Example
Kind of office
Leaves out offices that serve outside clients
single-family offices, family investment companies
What they invest in
Keeps it to offices that do your kind of deal
software startups, residential property
Place
Where you can meet them and they can invest
the UK, Sweden, Texas
What does each family office come with?
The person who runs it or runs its investments, the reason the office fits your raise, a fit score, and a work email checked live before it counts. The emails written for them start from the same reason.
PrincipalSingle-family office · London
Fit 93
Why they fit
Runs their family's own investment office
Invests directly in early-stage software companies
Sold their own company in 2023
✓Work email checked live
Chief investment officerFamily investment company · Manchester
Fit 84
Why they fit
Runs investments for one family's money
Backs UK startups at seed and Series A
Based in the UK
✓Work email checked live
Made-up examples. Real results show the person's name, work email, LinkedIn profile and the emails written for them.
How to build a family office list, step by step
The whole job runs from one sentence. You check the people and the messages; it does the rest.
Single-family offices in the UK that invest in software startups
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Describe the offices in one sentence. The kind of office, what they invest in, and where.
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It searches the web for them. It finds the offices first, then the principal or the person who runs investments, and drops anyone who does not fit.
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Every email is checked, every person researched. Each address is verified live before it counts, and each person gets a short note on why they fit.
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It writes the emails. The first email and the follow-ups, each written for that person. On paid plans, the LinkedIn request too.
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You approve, and it sends from your own inbox. Gmail or Outlook. Follow-ups stop when someone replies.
Change the country and what you raise for, for example family investment companies in Germany that invest in climate startups.
What does a family office list cost here?
10 leads free each month, no card, sent from your own inbox. Paid plans differ only in how many leads you get, and every paid plan has every feature, LinkedIn included. People who do not match your sentence cost 0 lead credits.
It works through their business. It finds people through the office or company they run, with a work email. It does not find home addresses.
No phone numbers. It finds work emails and LinkedIn profiles, not direct dials.
Raising money has rules. Most countries limit who you may approach about an investment and how. Check yours before you send.
Questions about family office lists
How many family offices are there in the UK?
Estimates differ. UK private bank Brown Shipley wrote in May 2026 that there are "just a few hundred" in the UK, while one company directory lists 448 active family office firms. Both count differently, and many offices are not public at all.
Is there a free family office list?
Free lists exist as blog posts and PDFs, but they are short and go out of date. With Wisemation, the first 10 leads each month are free, built from your own sentence, with checked emails.
What is the difference between a single-family office and a multi-family office?
A single-family office manages one family's own money. A multi-family office manages money for several families, as a service. For a raise, the single-family office is usually the one that decides with its own money.
Do family offices invest in startups?
Many do, some as angels and some through their own venture arm. Put it in the sentence, for example "single-family offices that invest in software startups", and the search keeps the offices that say so.
Describe the family offices you want in one sentence
Wisemation finds them, checks every email, researches each person, writes the emails, and sends them from your own inbox. 10 leads free each month, no card.