Brandon Alster
Partner at New Fund
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Investing $250-500k first checks in seed and seed-adjacent businesses.
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.
Consumer, Consumer-Tech
Finance & Strategy
2020 - 2021
Strategic Operations
2019 - 2020
Rumble delivers full-body strength and conditioning workouts crafted around specially designed water-filled, teardrop-style boxing bags.
Raised $31,000,000.00 from &vest and Jaws Ventures.
Investment Banking Analyst
2018 - 2019
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.
DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.
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.