Alicorn Venture Partners

O.G. Venture Partners is a founder-friendly multi-stage VC primarily focused on Early Growth opportunities, typically B and C rounds. We team up with passionate founders and ambitious teams seeking to disrupt existing industries and create new markets. O.G. Venture Partners is a single LP fund founded and backed by Eyal Ofer’s Ofer Global, a multi-generational private portfolio of international businesses. Eyal has been a long-time investor in a range of successful technology businesses and is a committed supporter of technology innovation. As Managing Partner of O.G. Venture Partners (Global), David Ofer brings extensive experience of tech investment and business leadership within the Ofer Global group for over a decade. As Managing Partners of O.G. Venture Partners (Israel), Roy Oron and Ziv Kop bring a wealth of expertise to O.G. Venture Partners as multi-stage investors, C-Level operators, and as Board members of both private and public tech companies. Our unique structure allows us to be fully flexible and enables our portfolio companies to benefit from fast decision-making, long-term commitment, and a broad global network that comes from being part of the Ofer Global group. If you are a fast-growing startup with a strong product-market fit and a proven go-to-market – talk to us.

Our mission: to serve our seed and early stage investor partners and the heroic teams they back. We partner with Early-Stage VCs to double down in their leading companies. Small, specialist VCs are the first funders of 80% of unicorns and tech IPOs, but 90% of the time, these first funders lack the capital to follow on in their growth stage winners. Alpha is purpose built to solve this capital gap for Early-Stage VCs. As a result, Alpha invests in top-tier growth equity rounds led by the world’s best investors. Rational and Agile Capital As experienced entrepreneurs and early stage venture capital investors, we founded Alpha Partners to be an agile co-investor. We make rapid investment decisions. We’re flexible on investment size. We believe in direct communication and transparency with our partners. While we may assist with fundraising, recruiting, and strategic relationships, we rarely take board seats. Experienced at Scale Alpha Partners was founded by experienced early stage venture capital investors and former entrepreneurs with more than 75 years of combined experience. Our team, including our close advisors, have founded and helped to scale multi-billion dollar venture and private equity firms as well as made hundreds of investments themselves. Friendly The venture ecosystem can be rough and tumble. We find that our best introductions come from high-quality referred deals from our friends, our fellow entrepreneurs, and venture firms we often partner with. As a result, we aspire to be as responsive, transparent, and easy to work with as we can be. Friendly. Not a Black Box Making an investment is about capitalizing on a business opportunity as well as forming a partnership. In evaluating an investment, we weigh leadership team quality, revenue velocity, category leadership, concept simplicity, strategic partner strength, market size and growth. That said, we’ve found that companies over $5 million in annual revenue that are growing tend to stay on that growth path.

We are an Israel-based investment firm focused on early growth stage technology and tech-enabled businesses. With a dual presence in Tel Aviv and New York, our team fuses investment and operating experience, deep local Israeli roots, and an expansive global network to support entrepreneurs in their quest to build thriving technology companies. Our roots date back to 2016, when we were established by TPG Growth as an investment platform for early growth technology investments in Israel. An independent fund since 2020, our culture remains grounded in this heritage, bringing the rigor and depth of private equity to early growth investing. We continue to serve as Senior Advisors to TPG Growth, and in this context seek opportunities for collaboration on selected large-check, growth stage investments in Israel. We are grounded locally & connected globally Headquartered in Tel Aviv, we take pride in our Israeli roots – and in being natives of our market. But with an equally firm footing in the US and origins from within one of its largest private equity organizations, our DNA is unmistakably American too. We feel at home in both. We are operators & investors We are former entrepreneurs and CEOs with management, operations, and execution experience on one hand; on the other, former investment bankers and private equity professionals with the financial know-how necessary to ‘get under the hood’ and propel results. You have to embrace depth You have to forge deep relationships with entrepreneurs – and with all the stakeholders they will encounter on their growth journey. You have to possess deep knowledge in relevant subject matter, and the experience that comes with having done it before. You have to dive into the details from due diligence to exit.‍ And you have to have to have deep integrity and humility. Because at the end of the day, while we strive to cultivate growth, it’s the company and its leaders actually doing the growing.

We invest across sectors and stages - with a differentiated ability to deploy capital through multiple transaction types, including structured liquidity, direct secondaries, and primary financing. 137 Explained NYSE: Founding partner Justin Fishner-Wolfson’s grandfather, Haney Fishner, had a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) until 1991. During his tenure, his annunciator number was 137. The annunciator board and its corresponding numbers were used to page members of the exchange and conduct business. In the early 1900s, the over 24 miles of wiring for its annunciator board was one of the most notable features of the NYSE. In 1980, the board was disassembled and replaced by a computerized display system. Prime: 137 is a prime number, and further, it also has some unique prime characteristics. 137 is a twin prime, which is when a prime number differs from another prime number by two. Except for the pair (2, 3), this is the smallest possible difference between two primes. 137 and 139 are a twin prime pair. Further, 137 is also a Chen prime. In 1966, a Chinese mathematician, Chen Jingrun, proved that every sufficiently large even number can be written as the sum of a prime and a semi prime (the product of two primes). A prime number p is a Chen prime if p + 2 is either a prime or a product of two primes. 137 satisfies Chen’s theorem, because 137+2=139, which is also prime. Physics: In physics, the inverse of 137 approximates the fine structure constant, which represents the probability that an electron will absorb a photon. Since the early 1900’s, physicists have thought that 137 might be at the heart of a Grand Unified Theory (GUT), which could relate the theories of electromagnetism, quantum mechanics and gravity, but physicists have yet to find any link between the 137 and any other physical law in the universe. It was expected that such an important equation would generate an important number, like one or pi, but this was not the case. 137 is usually denoted by α, which in investment terms has its own significance as the excess return above a benchmark index. 1337: When a vinculum is added, 137 becomes 1337, l33t or leet, also known as eleet or leetspeak. 1337 is an alternative alphabet that is used primarily online. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace letters. Leetspeak was first used by hackers in the 1980s as a way to prevent websites and news groups from being found by simple keyword searches. It was also used to show status on a bulletin board system (BBS). Since then, it’s become popular in online games to suggest that its user is a skilled hacker (h4x0r).

Trestle Partners is a private investment fund investing solely in pre-Series A and Series A SaaS businesses. We provide capital to founders so they can continue to scale without committing to the Bay Area's single-track approach to growth. Our founders have built platforms with strong product-market fit and responsible growth patterns. Our Approach We believe the SaaS business model is the most efficient in history. Given its inherent attributes (recurring revenue, high gross margin, controllable cost structure), founders can scale a SaaS business more efficiently now than ever before. So why has the average early-stage financing grown >3x in the last 8 years? Because the VCs who invest in this space have raised enormous funds and need to increase the size of their investments to make their own economics work. We believe this focus on huge rounds has created a dependence on unrealistic growth expectations, which has led to a couple of enormous success stories... but far more failures. Trestle offers founders the ability to continue to grow their business and hit milestones, while keeping their options open and avoiding the pitfalls that come with the traditional VC path.

We have been deeply rooted in the foundations of the 🇬🇷 startups ecosystem since its inception 15 years ago. We have been the launchpad for ventures & initiatives that have defined markets & industries, including many tech darlings of the regional scene. With a focus on empowering “Venture Characters” (hyper-ambitious tech founders with strong ethical foundations), Apeiron leverages its strategic market visibility and access to propel groundbreaking ideas into global success stories in Europe, US and beyond. Our partnership style Augmented Team: We know how hard it is to build a business from the ground up. From hiring the right people to setting up your GtM plan and from governance to your next round of financing - we roll up our sleeves to provide you with what’s critical for your venture. A sound voice, and trustworthy extended team. Real People Network: Apeiron is backed by 40+ investors, including exited Startup Founders (we previously backed), successful entrepreneurs, corporate investors & operators, and some of the region’s largest family offices. Your Partner, Not Your Boss: Every VC in the business claims it brings value. In reality, they talk to you every month, skip the hard talk and play the bossy card. With a toxic free, honest attitude we are your partners first, investors second. Ask for a reference from our previously backed founders.