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Brian Smiga

Co-founding Partner of Alpha Partners, the VC's growth fund. Advisor to Pritzker Group. Director TEDxAsburyPark, Roothbert Fund. Serial Founder.

New York, New York

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $25,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $3,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner/Co-founder

    2012

    At Alpha Venture Partners, investor in Careem, Coupang, ShieldAI, Apptronik, 2ndFront, RadAI, Socure, Ro Health, Brave Health, Included Health, ZenBusiness, Apollo.io, LiveIntent, Vroom, Cloud Tech Partners, Lime, BrightInsight. Brian originates and evaluates investment opportunities, manages venture and limited partner relationships, and provides product, marketing, strategic partnership, recruiting, financing, and operating expertise to portfolio companies. Brian is a connector, and a serial founder who began his career at Booz & Co, and started his first company, Portfolio Software, in Brooklyn in 1989, and moved it to Cupertino a year later. Brian founded Actioneer in San Francisco in 1994 and Preclick in 2001. Advisor to Pritzker Group.

  • Board Member

    2017

    roothbert.org

  • Founder

    2012

    TEDxAsbury events: 2022 Joy, 2019 Chaos, 2018 Passion, 2017 Identity, 2016 Makers, 2015 Accelerators, 2014 Play, 2013 Shore Life. More at www.tedxasbury.com.

2010 - 2016

  • Advisor/Investor - Ease Learning, Albert, Vydia, Catalyzr, Vertalo.

    2010 - 2016

    Recruited to advise on Brand, Marketing, Business Plans, Product, & Marketing.

2011 - 2012

  • General Manager

    2011 - 2012

    Recruited as entrepreneur to manage P&L for Videohub Marketplace, a start-up business at Tremor Video, the largest independent web video ad network. Originated and operated new license deals with domestic and international reseller partners. Shifted strategy from B2SMB to B2B.

  • Director of New Products

    2010 - 2011

    Recruited to formulate Knovel’s new product and business development strategy for collaboration, social networking, innovation, math, and foundation services.
 Knovel.com is the leading reference and tool library for engineering and applied science. Knovel sold to Elsevier December 2012 http://bit.ly/WohUqD.

  • VP Business Development

    2009 - 2010

    Developed partner strategy and pipeline in NA & EU. Closed deals that increased partner revenue and installs 125% Y/Y. Successfully transitioned Preclick's client base - Walmart, Sams, Costco, CVS, Walgreens - to Smilebox. Expanded retailer and partner relationships in NA & EU.

2001 - 2009

  • CEO & Founder at Preclick

    2001 - 2009

    Founded, developed, and licensed Digital Media Software and Web Applications in 22 languages, that shipped over 100,000,000 co-branded copies world-wide for Hewlett-Packard, Walmart, Costco, Walgreens, Meijers, 3M, Sandisk, CVS, and others. ShutterBug Magazine Top Photo Software 2003. Acquired by Smilebox 2009. www.preclick.com/company/partners.php

1999 - 2001

  • CEO - 3Path, a BRM Company

    1999 - 2001

    Recruited to lead Israel-incubated company, a Priority Content Delivery Network, (like Dropbox) which securely synchronized files and folders instead of using email attachments. Raised $10.5M from Intel, Goldman Sachs, & BRM. Sold to Cadmus Publishing.

  • SVP Business Development & Marketing - CMGI

    1998 - 2000

    Recruited as 7th employee. Within one year, led sale of company to CMGi for 700% return to investors. Led product definition, marketing and business development for 1ClickCharge introduction to market. In first six months, obtained world wide license to MasterCard and signed 30 content deals with NewsCorp, Edgar Online, Hoovers, DowJones, etc.