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Brandon Alster

Partner at New Fund

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

New Fund

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

    Investing $250-500k first checks in seed and seed-adjacent businesses.

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Palm Tree Crew Investments

  • Investor

    2021 - 2023

    Managed day-to-day of Venture Capital & Growth Equity arm of Palm Tree Crew Holdings. Invested in over 40 companies across $32M early-stage fund and $5M balance sheet portfolio. Investments include Aerflo, Betr, Fly by Jing, Footprint, GoPuff, Immi, Inspira, Rob’s Backstage, Sauz, Settle, Stuf Storage, Underdog Fantasy, Universe, Whatnot, and more.

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ORA

  • Finance & Strategy

    2020 - 2021

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Rumble

  • Strategic Operations

    2019 - 2020

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Jefferies

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2018 - 2019

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Deutsche Bank

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2017 - 2018

    Consumer & Retail Group

  • Fixed Income Analyst

    2015 - 2017

    Traded Emerging Markets currencies, rates & debt products. Rotated through the High Yield and Foreign Exchange desks.

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Merge Social, Inc

  • Co-Founder/CEO

    2013 - 2015

    Merge was a social scheduling app that allowed college students to create and share plans spontaneously on campus. Students seamlessly integrated their university course schedule into the app and were able to see which classmates were free or busy at any given moment. Raised seed capital from two angel investors, including the chairman of an international beverage company.

Education

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