Steve Brotman
Managing Partner at Alpha Partners
Steve Brotman
Managing Partner at Alpha Partners
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2012 - Current
Alpha Partners, a NYC based growth equity firm founded in 2012, manages $130 million. Alpha’s unique value proposition is simple yet powerful. Alpha co-Invests in top-tier growth equity companies, led by the world’s best Investors, by leveraging the unused Pro Rata Rights of our 500+ early stage VC partners, with whom we share economics. We are anchored by the Pritzker Group and other institutional family offices. We focus on growth and late stage tech investment opportunities primarily in essential technology sector including ecommerce, enterprise software, edtech, mobility, fintech, and health IT like telemedicine. Our bite sizes will range from $250K to $15M with the occasional $25-50M pre-IPO opportunity. For more on Alpha Partners, see www.alphapartners.com.
Strategic Advisor
2011
I advise Pritzker Group Venture Capital, an evergreen multi-stage VC fund backed by the Chicago based Pritzker family, on early, growth and expansion stage venture opportunities, particularly those in the New York metro area. Pritzker Group Venture Capital, formerly New World Ventures, helps entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies at every stage of their growth. Since our founding in 1996, our firm has worked side-by-side with entrepreneurs at more than 100 companies, building partnerships based on trust and integrity. Our proprietary capital structure allows for tremendous flexibility, and our experienced team of investment professionals and entrepreneurs offers companies a vast network of strategic relationships and guidance. Successful exits in recent years include Fleetmatics (NYSE: FLTX), SinglePlatform (acquired by Constant Contact), Zinch (acquired by Chegg), Playdom (acquired by Disney), LeftHand Networks (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), and TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster). For more information on Pritzker Group Venture Capital: www.pritzkergroup.com/venture-capital/
Managing Partner and Founder
1998
early stage private equity management (venture capital)
Investor
2012 - 2013
Rewind.Me turns personal history into an asset. We aggregate the data already collected by services like FourSquare, TripIt, Instagram, RunKeeper and we make it possible to manage and leverage that asset in ways that are interesting, social, and economically beneficial. Selected for TechStars NYC Spring 2012 Program.
Board Member
2004 - 2013
I led the Series A investment in 2004. Critical Mention records all broadcast TV and radio communications 24/7 in almost every country in the world and make them real time searchable. In addition, the company provides syndication and software services for the broadcast industry to transition to a digital world.
Advisor
2012 - 2013
Noom is a fitness technology with the leading weight loss "coaching" app on Android, Noom Weight Loss Coach. 2% of all Androids manufactured have the Noom app on them.
Advisor
2012 - 2013
OneSpot marries the promise of content marketing with the power, data intelligence, and infrastructure of online advertising. Our platform programmatically turns owned and earned content into “Spots” that appear where traditional ads normally would. We then apply proprietary technology for retargeting, real time bidding and machine learning to help your content drive business results.
Investor
2011 - 2012
The Future of TV: You. Now. Check it out: www.younow.com
Board Observer
2002 - 2012
co-led 2002 Series A in Knovel with Himalaya and Milestone Ventures. Knovel is the Lexis Nexis for Engineer globally, enabling engineers to access reference texts digitally anywhere. Sold to Elsevier in 2012.
Board Member
2009 - 2011
Altruik is a SaaS company that optimizes ecommerce sites for improved search engine visibility in an automated process. Traditionally this is done by hand, Altruik automates that process. In todays world, if a company is not in the top ten search results it effectively doesn't exist as a brand, product or company.