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Press release

The firm's launch announcement

Issued 2026-09-20 from McKinney, Texas. Read it here or download the one-page PDF; both carry the same wording.

For release 2026-09-20

Threefold Development Partners announces its launch as a capital, development and construction firm

The firm is led by its principals and applies The Cord of Three Framework™ to the projects it participates in and the work it performs under written engagement.

McKinney, Texas — Threefold Development Partners today announces its launch as a real estate firm working across capital, development and construction. Based in McKinney, Texas, the firm serves owners, sponsors, landowners, investors and developers on projects where those three disciplines meet.

The firm is led by its principals:

Felipe Soares, Principal | Capital, Strategy & Partnerships
Robert K. Bishop, Principal | Construction & Execution

The firm's method is The Cord of Three Framework™: capital, development and construction are examined separately and then tested against one another, on the view that projects most often fail where those three disciplines meet rather than inside any one of them.

The firm's work spans private capital and lending, development, construction advisory, owner representation, project recovery and fractional development leadership. Engagements are performed under written agreement.

Threefold Development Partners does not publish investment terms, returns or a track record total, and nothing in this release or on its website is an offer of securities. Threefold Development Academy is a separate business with its own terms and enrolment; education there is not a route to financing or advisory work.

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Threefold Development Partners is a real estate firm working across capital, development and construction. The firm applies The Cord of Three Framework™ — capital, development and construction examined separately, then tested against each other — to projects it participates in and to work it performs for owners and sponsors under written engagement.

Long

Threefold Development Partners is a real estate firm operating across three disciplines: capital, development and construction. The firm is led by its principals, and its work spans private capital and lending, development, construction advisory, owner representation, project recovery and fractional development leadership.

Threefold Development Partners does not publish investment terms, returns or a track record total, and nothing on its website is an offer of securities. Engagements are performed under written agreement. Threefold Development Academy is a separate business with its own terms and enrolment; education there is not a route to financing or advisory work.

Disciplines: Capital, development and construction
Services: Private capital and lending, development, construction advisory, owner representation, project recovery, fractional development leadership, advisory and consulting
Method: The Cord of Three Framework™
Leadership: The principals
Base: McKinney, Texas
Descriptor: CAPITAL • DEVELOPMENT • CONSTRUCTION
Tagline: Aligned in purpose. Disciplined in execution. Built to endure.

The principals

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Titles are used exactly as written. Each is a Principal, shown with the responsibility he holds.

Capital, Strategy & Partnerships

Felipe Soares

Principal

Capital, Strategy & Partnerships

felipe@threefolddevpartners.com · LinkedIn · Full profile

Felipe Soares is a co-founder and principal of Threefold Development Partners, where he leads capital strategy, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships. Based in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, he works with landowners, developers, investors, lenders, and operating partners to evaluate opportunities and establish a practical path for moving projects forward.

Born in Brazil, Felipe immigrated to the United States in 2001 and has been active in Dallas–Fort Worth real estate investing since 2008. His background also includes 11 years of service as a firefighter and paramedic in Texas.

Felipe is the Founder and Fund Manager of RAW Capital Fund, Managing Partner of RAW Equity Group, and Founder and Host of Deal Maker DFW. His career experience across his prior ventures includes 412+ real estate transactions, $63M+ in transaction volume, and $45M+ in private capital raised.

At Threefold, Felipe focuses on opportunity evaluation, underwriting, capital planning, acquisitions, and partnership development. He helps define the investment thesis, business plan, financing requirements, and commercial terms of a potential engagement or joint venture.

He works closely with Robert K. Bishop on construction scope, budgets, schedules, and execution. His responsibility is to connect the opportunity, the capital, and the people responsible for delivering the plan.

Felipe's approach emphasizes clear communication, disciplined preparation, and responsible stewardship. Through his operating work and Deal Maker DFW, he also shares practical knowledge and builds relationships among real estate professionals.

His work at Threefold is grounded in the company's mission to honor God by uniting capital, development, and construction to steward resources wisely, serve people faithfully, and create lasting value for its partners and communities.

Principal and Co-Founder, Threefold Development Partners
Capital, Strategy & Partnerships
Founder and Fund Manager, RAW Capital Fund
Managing Partner, RAW Equity Group
Founder and Host, Deal Maker DFW
Active in Dallas–Fort Worth real estate investing since 2008
Brazilian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 2001
Eleven years of service as a firefighter and paramedic in Texas

Since 2008: Real Estate Investing
412+: Real Estate Transactions
$63M+: Transaction Volume
$45M+: Private Capital Raised

Career figures reflect Felipe Soares's work across his prior ventures through September 20, 2026. They are presented as his individual career experience; Threefold Development Partners has a separate operating history.

Sources: soaresfelipe.com, RAW Capital Fund team page, LinkedIn

Construction & Execution

Robert K. Bishop

Principal

Construction & Execution

robert@threefolddevpartners.com · LinkedIn · Full profile

Robert K. Bishop is a co-founder and principal of Threefold Development Partners, and a construction and development executive based in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, with decades of experience leading complex projects across California, Arizona and Texas. His career spans luxury single-family homes, multifamily and condominium communities, build-for-rent developments and commercial rollout programs, with direct oversight of budgets, contracts, scheduling, risk management, stakeholder communication and full project lifecycle execution.

Operating at chief-executive and principal-partner level, he has led teams, managed general contractors and trade partners, negotiated vendor and subcontractor agreements, and provided independent oversight for owners, lenders, family offices and private equity sponsors. As he describes it on his own website, the work has one purpose: protecting the owner's investment through transparency, discipline and decisive leadership.

He also intervenes where projects have stopped working — distressed and stalled jobs needing rapid assessment, leadership restructuring, budget recalibration and operational course correction. Under his leadership, Family Development's hands-on approach to homebuilding earned multiple industry awards, including Builder of the Year, Gold Nugget and NAHB honors, and his own site lists BIA Grand Award, Golden Nugget Spirit Award, PCBC Merit Award and an Outstanding Philanthropic Award. Those awards belong to him and to the companies that earned them at the time, not to Threefold.

His own platform, RobertKBishop.com, houses his separate advisory practice — project clarity sessions, construction risk assessments, fractional construction executive work, owner's representation and stalled project rescue — together with the No Drama Development education program. At Threefold he holds construction and execution: preconstruction, scope, estimating, procurement, owner representation, cost and schedule control, completion and recovery. Robert K. Bishop Advisory is separately owned and separately contracted; an engagement with one is not an engagement with the other.

Construction and development executive — CEO and principal-partner level
Project leadership across California, Arizona and Texas
Luxury single-family, multifamily, build-for-rent and commercial rollout
Distressed and stalled project recovery; owner-side independent oversight

Sources: robertkbishop.com, Executive biography, LinkedIn

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Write the firm's name in full on first reference: Threefold Development Partners.
The method is The Cord of Three Framework™ — never “Chord”, and never with a registered mark.
Use each partner's title exactly as published on this page: each is a Principal, shown with the responsibility he holds. Felipe Soares and Robert K. Bishop are co-founders, as stated in their biographies.
Quote only wording published on this site or given to you directly by a partner in writing. Do not paraphrase a service description into a claim of outcome, return or guarantee.
Prior experience described in a partner's biography belongs to that individual and the entity that employed or contracted him at the time. It is not a Threefold Development Partners track record, and any figure a partner publishes is his own figure for his own company.
Threefold Development Academy is a separate business. Do not present a course, workshop or lesson as a Threefold Development Partners service, or as a route to capital or advisory work.
Robert K. Bishop Advisory and RAW Capital Raise are separately owned and separately contracted firms. Do not describe them as subsidiaries, divisions or affiliates under common ownership.

The method is written The Cord of Three Framework™ — never with a registered mark, and never “Chord”.

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Where development projects break at the seam between capital, development and construction
What an owner should control in a construction contract, and what is usually conceded
Reading a stalled or distressed project honestly before deciding whether to continue it
What a landowner should understand before selling or entering a joint venture
The difference between a development consultant, an owner's representative and a fractional development leader

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Nothing on this page or in the downloadable document is an offer of securities, an investment solicitation, or a commitment to perform work. Press kit version 1.0, updated 2026-09-20.

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