Steve Brotman

I'm an early stage growth equity venture capitalist based in New York City

For the past 11+ years, I have run Silicon Alley Venture Partners now Greenhill SAVP (www.gsavp.com), a New York City based venture firm focused on seed and early stage information technology companies. We focus primarily in the software and services sector companies based in the region, the 3rd largest venture capital cluster in the U.S. behind Silicon Valley and Route 128. I count among my firm's backers the principals of Greenhill and Co (NYSE: GHL), Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Stonehenge Capital, and TD Capital and a wide range of seasoned entrepreneurs, angel investors and institutions.

Prior to SAVP, I founded and ran AdOne, an ASP software company focused on the newspaper industry; when we sold to a newspaper consortium in the late 90's it had over 500 newspapers clients. Since then, AdOne merged with PowerAdz, and became PowerOne (www.poweronemedia.com).

I graduated from Duke University (Durham, NC) with an economics major in 1990, and Washington University in St. Louis, MO with a JD/MBA degree in 1995. I spent my last year of study at Columbia University in New York City, where I started AdOne in my final semester in an Entrepreneurship course taught by Murray Lowe and mentored by Cliff Schorer.

I am also a Milton Academy grad, a high school in Milton, MA and I attended Georgetown Day School (Washington, DC) and Harlingen High (Harlingen, TX). While in school and breaks, I have worked a variety of part-time and short duration fulltime jobs: as a COBOL and DB2 coder; as a blue and white collar productivity consultant, as an investment banking analyst at a small midwestern investment bank and research analyst on the CMO desk at Bear Stearns; as a venture capital consultant for a midwestern Bank; as well as being self employed selling computers and teaching computer basics. Given my background, I have a lot of fun playing the name game.

I have a wife and 3 children under the age of 8. Raising a young family is like working with early stage companies: humbling and rewarding.