Private Family Investment Entity
Mission-Driven Partnerships & Investments
DRS II is a private family investment entity focused on leading and investing in movements, ideas, and organizations that protect, promote, care for, and empower the African American community — particularly those with ancestral ties to the coastal Carolinas and Georgia, descendants of the first people forcibly brought to American shores.
Our Purpose
We invest at the intersection of cultural preservation, community empowerment, and economic opportunity — building institutions and enterprises that serve the African American community with the dignity and ambition it deserves.
Black ownership is not incidental to our mission — it is the mission. Every investment we make is a deliberate act of building generational wealth, cultural legacy, and community agency.
Areas of Focus
Researching, preserving, and promoting African American history and heritage — particularly the Gullah Geechee traditions of the coastal Southeast. Ensuring that what has been held through generations is not lost to development, displacement, or erasure.
Improving the mental, spiritual, and physical well-being of our community. Investing in spaces, programs, and enterprises that offer rest, restoration, and rejuvenation to a population that carries more than its share of the world's weight.
Exposing the next generation to new experiences, creative outlets, and pathways — from the arts and music to entrepreneurship and civic leadership. Investing in what young people can become when given the tools and the space.
Current Ventures
Leadership
David Seabrook, Jr, leads DRS II's family partnerships, investments, and ventures. Over 25 years, he has helped steward some of America's most respected mission-driven organizations — advising founders, CEOs, and boards through periods of rapid growth, change management, and financial transformation.
His work sits at the intersection of financial expertise, social impact, and entrepreneurial ambition. He brings to each venture the rigor of a CFO, the perspective of a Columbia-trained strategist, and the deep personal investment of someone building for his community and his family's legacy.
David is a Gullah Geechee descendant with ancestral ties to Seabrook Island and the Sea Islands of South Carolina — the same lands where Kinship Collection's inaugural property is being developed. His connection to this work is not professional. It is personal, cultural, and ancestral.
He lives in Maryland with his wife Nancy and their four children — Julius, Sojourner, Isabella, and Isaiah.
Connect
DRS II welcomes conversations with mission-aligned partners, investors, operators, and community leaders. We are selective — and that is by design.