Now building @faesandco (and @f2finance). Previously co-founder @LendInvest (built through to IPO), Onate (Ireland). Ex-lawyer 🇦🇺 to 🇬🇧now 🇺🇸
Los Angeles, CA
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Christian Faes retweeted
“If you want to see where socialism leads you, look at France this last weekend. It’s a socialist’s dream.” Ken Griffin
Ken Griffin on the rise of DSA, Paris riots and looting in Chicago
I'm not so worried about it. It's a New York, Illinois, Michigan, California bit of a bubble.
If you want to see where socialism leads to, look at France last weekend.
It's the socialist dream. The country spends 60% of GDP at the government level.
BTW Paris looked pretty damn similar to Chicago in 2021-22.
It’s a people… (that) are very willing to riot and protest anything. Is that really the future that the US might be looking at?
It’s the future. I lived in Chicago.
I could look out my window at the Dior store. They were very efficient.
We may be more efficient than the French, even at looting.
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RT @Jason: My lord, three IPOs are worth more than… all IPOs in the last 45 years of tech 🤯
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Christian Faes retweeted
Faes & Co moves into London with new hire
#alternativecreditinvestor #alternativecredit #altcredit #finance #lending #investment #privatecredit #privatedebt
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Totally! The SPV market is scam central. Lots more headlines like this to come. wsj.com/finance/stocks/space…
I know of 3 such SPVs who are currently in litigation for not holding the underlying shares they claimed in SpaceX.
Secret service involved.
At sequel we have only invested direct on the cap table.
I would never invest with our LPs in someone else’s vehicle unless it was with a GP who is directly on the cap table and I know where they live.
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Crazy story! Time to get back to the office?
North Korea is building a secret workforce inside the U.S. We investigate how stolen IDs, deepfakes and American accomplices help funnel millions to the regime. on.wsj.com/4x0ugya
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This just may be the GREATEST campaign video of all time.
Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) is a GENIUS.
He's taking out the trash.
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Christian Faes retweeted
BREAKING: a16z hires @nickshirleyy as newest Partner to diligence fraud in “high-growth” startups
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Christian Faes retweeted
F2 Finance’s lending guidelines focus on flexible bridge financing across a wide range of real estate assets.
Key parameters include:
• Loan size: Typically $300K to $3M (with flexibility on both ends)
• Pricing: Roughly 9.9% – 13% depending on the deal
• Leverage: Around 75% LTV, occasionally up to 80%
• FICO: Flexible, starting around 550
The platform primarily focuses on short-term bridge loans (12 months or less) for stabilized assets, including purchase and refinance transactions.
🎙 Tune in to Rocky Butani’s interview with Christian Faes, CEO of F2 Finance (@ChristianFaes) to learn more about F2’s balance sheet lending model, bridge loan guidelines, land and commercial deal appetite, state-by-state strategy, and how they compete in a highly competitive private lending market: pllk.io/pod26
#PrivateLending #PrivateMoney #PrivateLenders #HardMoney #HardMoneyLoans #BridgeLoans #LenderLinkPodcast #F2Finance
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Christian Faes retweeted
The State of California has been run top to bottom by one party since 2011.
Here are their results:
1) highest state income tax
2) highest rate of poverty
3) highest rate of unemployment
4) highest rate of homelessness
5) highest energy costs
Hard to explain this away.
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Christian Faes retweeted
Nothing is quite as European as demanding that your emergency WW3 meeting must only occur during normal office hours.
Following the ongoing situation in Iran, I am convening a special Security College on Monday.
For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region.
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Christian Faes retweeted
Investing In Public Equities: Does It Still Make Sense? hubs.li/Q044XH2R0 Written by @christianfaes of @faesandco
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Christian Faes retweeted
LOAN
IMAGE: Dante Craig
DATE: 01/16/2026
MARKET: Miami
ASSET TYPE: Single Family ~ SF: 4,000
LENDER: Dante Craig - F2 Finance
LOAN AMOUNT: $3,120,000
LOAN TYPE: Bridge
LOAN TERMS: 1
NOTE FROM LENDER: F2 Finance was able to provide a bridging loan within 5 days of receiving the inquiry on the deal. The borrower had been let down by another lender, and F2 were able to step in and get the deal done in time. F2 is a specialist bridging lender that is very active in CA, TX and FL (and lending in 16 states across the US); and is able to lend to all types of borrowers (including foreign nationals), and against all types of assets.
#Miami #RealEstate #tradedmia #MIA #TradedPartner #SingleFamily #DanteCraig #F2Finance
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Christian Faes retweeted
LendInvest forms funding partnership with Castlelake
mortgagestrategy.co.uk/news/…
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