Steve Brotman

Founder & Managing Partner, Alpha Partners | Growth-Stage VC | Helping 1,200+ VCs Double Down on Their Best Companies

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2012𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
7
Total investments
5
Early stage
1
Mid stage
0
Late stage
24y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor, Advisor
Dec 2011
We believe in the unlimited potential of human creativity. In fact, it’s why we come to work every day - to create a powerful platform where anyone can broadcast and express themselves in front of a vast live audience. In a moment when social media and TV are converging, we’re proud to provide a product that fuses the experience of broadcasting, gaming, performing and social networking, giving direct power to the people and enabling them to discover and create new kinds of interactive content in real-time. Long at the forefront of user-generated video, we’re a small and experienced team working from a sunny loft in Midtown Manhattan. And we’re backed by Oren’s Capital, and VCs like Union Square Ventures and Venrock - the same firms that first helped Twitter, Apple, Tumblr and others become tech heavy-hitters. Interested in joining the team? Check out our careers page at http://www.younow.com/info/en/jobs.
Board Member
Sep 2009
At Altruik, we’re focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using our technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. The Altruik Search Engine Optimization (SEO) software easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: - Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers - Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines - Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data
Board Member
Dec 2008
Upland Waterfall enables you to reach your customers where they are, and motivate them in the moment with enterprise messaging software built to drive engagement. Whether you'd like to send a targeted promotion, learn about your customers through quizzes and polls, deliver a loyalty pass via mobile wallet, or simply update a customer about their order, Upland Waterfall is the mobile messaging platform for all your customer engagement strategies.
Board Member
Sep 2004
Critical Mention is now an Onclusive company. Onclusive is a global partner for PR and Communications success. We combine industry-leading data science with an international consultancy and best-in-class PR workflow tools. Our technology, insights and expertise make sense of the fractured, fast-moving media world, helping you manage, monitor and measure your communications activity.  Elevate your performance and prove and improve your value with Onclusive on your side. Also now part of Onclusive: US-based earned media & broadcast monitoring expert Critical Mention and world-leading social media platform Digimind. For more information visit us at https://onclusive.com/
Board Observer
May 2002
Knovel is an engineering decision-support solution enabling engineers to confidently answer technical questions drawing upon trusted data from more than 120 providers through a cloud-based platform with powerful search and interactive analytical tools. Knovel was acquired by Elsevier in 2013.
Board Member
Apr 2002
Medidata is leading the digital transformation of clinical research, creating hope for millions of patients. Our unified platform combines AI powered insights with unrivaled patient-centric clinical trial solutions to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, as well as academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. Medidata is the first life sciences tech company to surpass 30,000 trials and 9 million participants. We’re powering smarter treatments and healthier people, with over 1.5 million registered users across 2,000+ customers and partners harnessing the world's most trusted clinical trials software for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. We are a Dassault Systèmes company (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA) headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. See why experience matters at www.medidata.com and follow us on Twitter (@Medidata) and Instagram (@medidata.solutions).
Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (7)
Founder (2)
Board (5)
2014
Alpha Venture Partners
Managing Partner
Jan 2014
2012
Managing Partner
Dec 2012
For more than a decade, Alpha Partners has been co-investing with some of the world’s top VCs in their most exciting growth-stage companies. Instead of competing, we partner with early-stage investors by sharing economics on their best opportunities.
Rewind Me, Inc.
Investor
Apr 2012
2011
Investor, Advisor
Dec 2011
We believe in the unlimited potential of human creativity. In fact, it’s why we come to work every day - to create a powerful platform where anyone can broadcast and express themselves in front of a vast live audience. In a moment when social media and TV are converging, we’re proud to provide a product that fuses the experience of broadcasting, gaming, performing and social networking, giving direct power to the people and enabling them to discover and create new kinds of interactive content in real-time. Long at the forefront of user-generated video, we’re a small and experienced team working from a sunny loft in Midtown Manhattan. And we’re backed by Oren’s Capital, and VCs like Union Square Ventures and Venrock - the same firms that first helped Twitter, Apple, Tumblr and others become tech heavy-hitters. Interested in joining the team? Check out our careers page at http://www.younow.com/info/en/jobs.
2009
Board Member
Sep 2009
At Altruik, we’re focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using our technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. The Altruik Search Engine Optimization (SEO) software easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: - Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers - Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines - Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data
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