🎉 We’re excited to be featured in Venture Capital Journal! Alpha Partners is proud to be recognized for our recent success in raising $153 million for our third flagship fund. This fund is nearly 3x the size of our previous one, a true testament to the strength of our pro-rata investment strategy, even in a challenging fundraising environment. As our Managing Partner Steve Brotman shared in the article: “After 10 years executing on a new strategy, a big factor for LPs is that we could show disciplined investment execution backed up by DPI performance for a full cycle.” A big thank you to Lawrence Aragon and the Venture Capital Journal for highlighting our approach and the continued support of our incredible LPs. We’re excited to keep building momentum and deploying capital into innovative, high-growth companies across sectors like AI-enabled software and health tech. Check out the full article to learn more about our journey and strategy here: https://lnkd.in/eMpdCUES. #VentureCapital #AlphaPartners #ProRata #GrowthEquity #Fundraising #Innovation #AI #HealthTech
Alpha Partners
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
New York, NY 2,741 followers
Network Driven Growth Equity
About us
Alpha Partners is a next generation growth equity firm that focuses on accelerating private technology companies. To these companies and their investors, we offer an option to quickly fill out a growth or expansion stage financing round in a friendly and rational manner. Our mission: to serve our seed and early stage investor partners and the heroic teams they back. >Rational and Agile Capital As experienced entrepreneurs and early stage venture capital investors, we founded Alpha Partners to be an agile co-investor. We make rapid investment decisions. We’re flexible on investment size. We believe in direct communication and transparency with our partners. While we may assist with fundraising, recruiting, and strategic relationships, we rarely take board seats. >Experienced at Scale Alpha Partners was founded by experienced early stage venture capital investors and former entrepreneurs with more than 75 years of combined experience. Our team, including our close advisors, have founded and helped to scale multi-billion dollar venture and private equity firms as well as made hundreds of investments themselves. >Friendly The venture ecosystem can be rough and tumble. We find that our best introductions come from high-quality referred deals from our friends, our fellow entrepreneurs, and venture firms we often partner with. As a result, we aspire to be as responsive, transparent, and easy to work with as we can be. Friendly. >Not a Black Box Making an investment is about capitalizing on a business opportunity as well as forming a partnership. In evaluating an investment, we weigh leadership team quality, revenue velocity, category leadership, concept simplicity, strategic partner strength, market size and growth. That said, we’ve found that companies over $5 million in annual revenue that are growing tend to stay on that growth path.
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http://alphapartners.com
External link for Alpha Partners
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2012
- Specialties
- Venture Capital, Family Office, Growth Companies, Technology, Private Equity, Growth Equity, Alternative Investments, and Chief Investment Officers
Locations
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Primary
1 Penn Plaza
Suite 36th Floor
New York, NY 10119, US
Employees at Alpha Partners
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David S. Bennahum
Exploring the future of digital well-being and AI + Venture Partner @alphaptrs
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Steve Brotman
Managing Partner at Alpha Partners
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Brian Smiga
Co-founding Partner of Alpha Partners, the VC's growth fund. Advisor to Pritzker Group. Director TEDxAsburyPark, Roothbert Fund. Serial Founder.
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Matt Krna
Founder & Managing Partner at Two Meter Capital
Updates
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On the latest episode of the Driving Alpha podcast, Rebecca Kaden of Union Square Ventures highlights the parallels between journalism and VC. Both rely on curiosity, pattern recognition, and the ability to adapt to change, with journalism teaching the repeatable process of pulling threads from fewer data points—a vital skill for generalist investors. Listen to the full podcast here: https://lnkd.in/dyavZuAR #DrivingAlpha #VentureCapital
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🚀 Thrilled to announce our continued investment in Second Front Systems! At Alpha Partners, we're further expanding our commitment to a company that is revolutionizing the way commercial software vendors sell to the U.S. government. Their innovative platform streamlines the complex Authority to Operate (ATO) process, reducing time and costs for vendors while ensuring compliance with federal regulations. This second investment reaffirms our confidence in their mission to enable the U.S. government and its close allies to rapidly adopt best-in-class commercial software. A big thank you to Tyler Sweatt and the entire team for their relentless drive and innovation. We're also excited to deepen our partnership with ARTIS Ventures, who initially brought us into this fantastic opportunity. #GovTech Second Front Systems ARTIS Ventures New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Battery Ventures Moore Capital Management Salesforce Ventures https://lnkd.in/gUS5NJia
Reinvesting in Innovation: Our Continued Partnership with Second Front Systems - Alpha Partners
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🚀 Exciting news! We’re thrilled to welcome Samir Menon, Managing Director at BlackRock, to our Growth Equity Panel at AlphaMarket! Don’t miss out—RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/ewBDbPwz
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Great insight from Matt Greenfield from Rethink Education: "Life and VC alike: You never know who’s in disguise. Be generous and kind, but also honest. Sometimes, that honesty stings, but it’s often appreciated." #VentureCapital #DrivingAlpha Episode sponsored by: Affinity.co
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We’re thrilled to announce the close of Alpha Partners oversubscribed Fund III, furthering our mission of partnering with early-stage VCs and helping them leverage their access to the most promising mid and growth stage companies. Since 2014, we've been building a strong network of partner VC and maximizing returns on top-performing investments. With this new fund, we’re even better positioned to support the growth of leading startups like Pearl, Shield AI, Second Front Systems and Rad AI, while investing alongside great firms like ARTIS Ventures, Mantis Venture Capital, Santa Barbara Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, and others. A special thanks to all of our LP and VC partners for making this milestone possible. See the official press release here: https://lnkd.in/eCwD2BqU #VentureCapital #Startups #AlphaPartners #ProRata #FundAnnouncement
Alpha Partners raises $153M third fund for pro-rata investments | TechCrunch
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We're thrilled to announce the closing of our $153M third fund! Since 2014, we’ve been dedicated to supporting early-stage VCs by helping them maintain ownership as startups transition to later funding rounds. As the market evolves, our strategy remains more relevant than ever. With a focus on writing $5M to $10M checks for Series B and beyond, we're committed to making swift, informed decisions and being a "safe pair of hands" in today’s dynamic landscape. Thank you to everyone who has supported us through this journey! https://lnkd.in/esX8q4nF
Alpha Partners raises $153M third fund for pro-rata investments | TechCrunch
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Rebecca Kaden of Union Square Ventures shares their strategy: "In a market full of trends, we know winners often aren’t the first movers. We take a thoughtful, bottom-up approach, focusing on developing sharp theses and letting some opportunities pass by. It's all about quality over quantity." 💡 #Investing #Strategy #VentureCapital Listen to the full podcast here: https://lnkd.in/dyavZuAR
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Rebecca Kaden of Union Square Ventures shares their strategy: "In a market full of trends, we know winners often aren’t the first movers. We take a thoughtful, bottom-up approach, focusing on developing sharp theses and letting some opportunities pass by. It's all about quality over quantity." 💡 #Investing #Strategy #VentureCapital Listen to the full podcast here: https://lnkd.in/dyavZuAR
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We're excited to partner with Affinity.co & TECH WEEK by a16z for our #SFTechWeek- Partner2Partner VC Breakfast, see you there! RSVP here: https://lu.ma/t6czx56n
🎉 Big news! The official calendar of events for #SFTechWeek and #LATechWeek is now LIVE! And thrilled to announce that this is officially our BIGGEST Tech Week, ever! - 850+ events 🤯 - San Francisco: Oct 7-13 🌉 - Los Angeles: Oct 14-20 🌴 Link to register below to see all events👇 Sneak peek of a few events you can't miss... - The Future of Entertainment with Andrew Chen (a16z), Carter Reum (M13), Jeffrey Evans (Mantis), David Sabow (HSBC) - Founder Fireside Chat with Chris Best, Substack Founder & CEO - Game Changers: Breakfast with Fenwick and a16z with Jonathan Lai (a16z GP) and Kat Duncan (Partner, Fenwick) - How Design, Story, and AI are Changing Software with Siqi Chen, CEO of Runway - AI Breakthrough: Finding Product-Market Fit with executives from Mistral AI, Pinecone, Anyscale, HSBC and a16z - SPEEDRUN Demo Day by A16Z GAMES 40%+ of the events self-report having an AI theme. We're also seeing a ton of diversity in topics, including: B2B, fundraising/investing, fintech, engineering, deeptech, infra, consumer, games, media/entertainment, SaaS... In just 2 years, the Tech Week community has grown to 100k+ folks and has evolved from primarily VC deal flow to deal flow AND a diverse range of use cases: - B2B Lead Generation - Product Launches - Sourcing Talent - Meeting Investors / Fundraising - Brand Building It's been amazing to see Tech Week serve as a bridge between different cities, connecting the SF, LA, and NY ecosystems. Our back-to-back scheduling for SF and LA is designed to encourage cross-pollination. 🐝Tech Week wouldn’t be possible without incredible partners. Thank you to Andreessen Horowitz Fenwick & West, HSBC Innovation Banking, Dialpad, Stripe, Atlassian, PwC, and Nasdaq for your support and belief in the mission 🙏 And Tech Week would not be possible without the incredible (and growing!) team behind it - huge shoutout to Andrew Chen Rose Johnson Shrikala Kashyap Joung Lee for your dedication to the community 😊 Make sure you're following us at TECH WEEK by a16z for more updates, and register at tech-week.com!