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Paul Strachman

Founding Partner at SPAR Ventures

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Paul Strachman is the Founding Partner at SPAR Ventures, where he specializes in seed capital investments and private equity. With a background in management consulting at Bain & Company and experience as a General Partner at Red Sea Ventures, he has successfully invested in companies like Clyde and Prose. His career highlights include founding SPAR Ventures and making strategic investments in various successful startups, showcasing his expertise in financial modeling and entrepreneurship.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2023 - Current

    SPAR Ventures is an early stage fund (Pre-Seed and Seed) investing in tech-enabled B2B companies serving the SMB market.

  • Venture Partner

    2015

    ISAI is the leading early-stage VC fund, supporting French entrepreneurs in France and Internationally. ISAI is backed by a collective of entrepreneurs. The New York team is focused on helping French Entrepreneurs develop in the US and investing in US-based startups w/ French founders. www.isai.vc

  • General Partner

    2015 - 2023

Red Sea Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments based in New York.

  • Strategic Advisor

    2012 - 2021

    - Digital Health / Fitness - CRM strategy - Member Experience

  • Vice President - Assistant to the COO

    2007 - 2012

    - Customer-centric Strategy: member base segmentation, design and implementation of a CRM system including member lifecycle management, member feedback tools and service strategy leading - Digital and eCommerce Strategy including digital wellness trends - Personal Training business strategy including preventative health strategy in cooperation with head of Personal Training (Health Advisory board; digital PT...) - Economic Response Strategy: definition and oversight of economic response plan to protect core business (Sales, Personal Training and Attrition) during crisis

Equinox is a high growth collective of the worlds influential, experiential, differentiated lifestyle brands.

  • Chief Operating/Strategy Officer

    2012 - 2015

    - Strategy: defined product and commercialization strategy - Sales and Business Development: built sales process, closed high profile corporate customers and set up large business dev. deals - Product development: evolved product from proof of concept to commercial product, overseeing technology team with VP Engineering - Operations: set up printing operations with 3rd party printers - Financing: Raised series A

  • Consultant

    2002 - 2005

    Specialized in Consumer Goods, Retail and Financial Services. Experience include: Full potential projects, Turnaround strategies and Marketing.

  • Analyst

    2000 - 2001

    Leveraged Buy Outs focused on Technology and Media.

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