Nate Hobba
Co-Founder & Managing Principal
Nate Hobba serves as Managing Principal of Freedom Capital Partners, where he oversees the firm’s day-to-day operations, investment execution, investor relations, and overall business strategy. He leads capital raising efforts, marketing and communications, and partner relationships, while ensuring disciplined underwriting, transparent reporting, and alignment between the firm and its investors.
Prior to founding FCP, Nate established South Bay Developers, a Los Angeles–based real estate development and investment firm specializing in high-quality urban infill multifamily projects across Southern California.
Since 2014, his team has successfully delivered more than $100 million in residential and mixed-use developments, overseeing every stage from land acquisition and entitlement through design, financing, construction, and lease-up. Most recently, the South Bay team completed a ground-up development of an eight-story, 101-unit apartment building in Los Angeles. Over his career, Nate has founded and managed more than twenty real estate joint venture companies, structuring and capitalizing complex projects and raising over $22 million in private equity from a network of individual and institutional investors, with the vast majority of investments generating double-digit annualized returns.
Nate also brings a disciplined, data-driven approach shaped by his earlier 16-year career in information technology and business consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, and Honda North America, where he managed large-scale enterprise programs, technology transformations, and cross-functional teams. This combination of analytical rigor and real-world development experience allows him to bridge strategic vision with operational execution—and the advantage he applies daily in evaluating complex investments and managing partnerships.
An active investor himself, Nate has participated in more than forty private real estate ventures, achieving an average 18% IRR on full-cycle investments. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, graduating Magna Cum Laude with Honors, and is currently pursuing a Global Executive MBA through a joint program between UCLA Anderson School of Management and the National University of Singapore (NUS). Nate, his wife and two children reside in Singapore.
