Cive

Cive

Founded in 2003 by structural engineer Hachem Domloj, Cive began as a consultancy and grew into a multidisciplinary design-build group with international reach. The family office is the investment arm atop this architecture, engineering, and construction operation, preserving family wealth through a strategy that is inseparable from the operating business. That integration means investment decisions are informed by decades of direct experience in commercial, industrial, and community development across US markets. Cive targets early- and growth-stage companies that intersect with its core building-industry expertise, with confirmed focuses including PropTech, EdTech, and GovTech. The office also allocates to real assets and private credit, echoing a theme of hard-asset and contract-linked returns. Confirmed investments include development projects like Global Student Housing II and the Sesco Cement Terminal, illustrating a preference for assets where the firm's own design-build capabilities create a natural monitoring and value-add advantage. Geographic deployment concentrates on North America. The firm's deal structures span direct real estate holdings, mission-related credits, and equity positions in ventures it can evaluate from an operator's perspective. The Cive ecosystem extends beyond its portfolio to a community role that earned it an official 'CIVE Day' proclamation from the Houston mayor in December 2023. While headcount and AUM remain undisclosed, the firm's project volume — it reports over 200 completed projects — suggests a substantial base of activity that could support both organic capital generation and external co-investment. Recent operational signals include the December 2023 publication of a $3,300 political contribution from a Cive general manager to US Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, adding a thread of regulatory engagement to its Texas-headquartered operations. Cive's structural differentiator is the identity between the family office and the operating company: it is not a passive pool of financial assets managed by a separate family entity, but a single corporate group where design-build profits, project-level data, and sector-specific deal flow feed directly into the investment function. This model effectively functions as a captive origination engine for hard-to-access real-asset and infrastructure-adjacent opportunities, a configuration rare among single-family offices.