Structured Access to Elite Venture Deals – Alpha Partners – 2.19.21

Summary:

On Demand Soon.

Many top-performing institutional investors have been increasing their venture and growth equity capital allocations as they seek compelling returns coupled with greater portfolio diversification. Access to attractive growth stage technology deals has been difficult for the advisor community. This webcast will present a differentiated approach to finding and investing in the most sought-after growth stage technology deals.

This strategy takes advantage of a little-understood facet of venture investing: that the earliest investors in successful startups often lack the capital to maintain their ownership percentages as the company’s value increases. Their valuable “pro rata” rights to invest in subsequent funding rounds typically go unused.

In this webcast, you’ll learn how Alpha partners with those rights holders to invest in growth equity rounds being led by elite VC firms. The Pritzker Group and other institutional family offices have been Alpha investors for eight years, and will now anchor its third fund using this strategy.

Join us for an in-depth discussion that will cover:

• How venture funding rounds work, from startup to IPO
• Understanding pro-rata investment rights
• Strategies for partnering with holders of these rights
• Benefits and risks of venture capital investing

Speakers:

As Alpha’s Co-founding Partner, Brian builds and works with our vast early stage venture network to source and evaluate investment opportunities. Brian also advises Pritzker Group Venture Capital on deal origination and relationships.

Prior to Alpha Partners, Brian was the founder and CEO of Preclick, (sold toSmilebox), where he developed photo software licensed worldwide by HP, 3M, Sandisk, Walmart, Costco, CVS, and Walgreens. Prior to Preclick, Mr. Smiga was CEO at 3Path, an early Dropbox, an Intel and Goldman-Sachs backed startup, and the SVP of Marketing at 1ClickCharge, where his product launch resulted in a sale of the company to CMGi.

Brian received a BA in Liberal Arts from Swarthmore College, and a Masters of Philosophy in Literature from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. Brian is the founder of TEDxAsburyPark, the top-ranked TEDx conference on the US east coast.

Steve Brotman, an entrepreneur, investor, and fund manager, is the founder and Managing Partner at Alpha Partners. Steve also serves as a Strategic Advisor to thePritzker Group‘s venture arm, Pritzker Group Venture Capital.

Prior to Alpha Partners, Steve was the co-founder and Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP, Greenhill & Co’s venture capital unit (which was spun out asTribeca Venture Partners), a technology- and business information services-focused venture capital fund with $100 Million under management. Prior to GSAVP, Steve founded Silicon Alley Venture Partners with $15 million assets under management. At his prior funds, Steve invested in 30 portfolio companies and was among the first institutional investors inLivePerson(Nasdaq: LPSN)andMedidata Solutions (Nasdaq: MDSO).

Steve received a joint M.B.A. / J.D from Washington University / Columbia and a B.A. in economics from Duke University.