Watch and listen as our co-founder, Rob Konrad, is the special guest on #FundFanatics final episode of 2024. A special thanks to Scott Aleali and Jeff Maier for inviting Rob to share his story from being a former fullback for the Miami Dolphins to a #privateequity professional.
Alterna Equity Partners
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1,706 followers
A Florida-based partnership focused private equity firm investing in the lower middle market across the United States.
About us
Alterna Equity Partners is a private equity firm based in South Florida focused on making control and non-control investments in lower middle market U.S. companies. The firm seeks to partner with stable, established companies and backs strong management teams that are poised for growth. The firm partners with talented and experienced founders and management teams to accelerate growth and transformation, with the goal of acting as a partner rather than a financial counterparty. The firm collaborates with management to professionalize the organization, enhance the operational foundation and accelerate growth, and pursue accretive add-on acquisitions. Our differentiated strategy is centered on the long-standing focus on founder or family-owned lower middle market businesses (typically from $15-100 million in enterprise value) and a deep understanding and appreciation of the unique challenges and opportunities such businesses present. We approach our transactions with a flexible investment structuring while putting priority on speed and responsiveness. Investment Criteria Size: revenue of $10-100MM and EBITDA of up to $10MM Transactions: control investments; founder-owned and family businesses in transition; buy and builds; operator-led and non-sponsor buyouts; management-led buyouts Geography: United States with a core focus on companies headquartered in the South Sectors: industry generalists with targeted transaction themes and company characteristics
- Website
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http://www.alternaequitypartners.com
External link for Alterna Equity Partners
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, Digital Transformation, Business Development, Finance Relationships, Growing small and medium size businesses, and Growth Investing
Locations
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Primary
200 E Las Olas Blvd
1560
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301, US
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25 Seabreeze Ave
Delray Beach, Florida 33483, US
Employees at Alterna Equity Partners
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A thank you to Scott, Jeff and the FundFantantics team. I enjoyed the conversation and spending spending sone time revisiting my non traditional PE background and providing an update on the progress of Alterna Equity Partners. I appreciate the kind words, and look forward to revisiting when the Phins finally make a title run 🐬! Onward and upward!
Head of Private Equity Finance I New York Region | Citizens Private Bank I Co-Host of Fund Fanatics🎙️🐬
Miami Dolphins 🐬 fullback turned Private Markets professional. Rob Konrad is Managing Partner of Alterna Equity Partners and former Chairman of the Investment Advisory Counsel at the State Board of Administration of Florida. Rob played fullback at Syracuse University and was the last of “The Legend of #44.” Drafted in 1999 by the Miami Dolphins, he was teammates with former NFL stars, Dan Marino, Ricky Williams, Jay Fiedler and head coach Jimmy Johnson. Rob is also a survivor of a chilling boating accident that required a remarkable 16-hour swim to shore 🛥️ Rob Konrad is our special guest on #FundFanatics final episode of 2024. Jeff Maier and I thank you for tuning in and wish you a happy and safe holiday season 🎁 🍾 ✔️ The inspiration to build Alterna and the importance of “Team” when working with family-owned businesses 🤝 ✔️ Applying experiences on the gridiron to building a strong #PrivateEquity Firm 💪 ✔️ The Legend of #44 at Syracuse and the special meaning behind it 🏈 ✔️ Current state of the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium off the news of selling a minority share to Ares and Rob’s Super Bowl matchup prediction 🏟️ #Investing #VentureCapital #Sports #HappyHolidays
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A huge thanks to BluWave's Karma School of Business Podcast for featuring our co-founder, Rob Konrad, in their most recent podcast interview, "From NFL to Investment Leadership" https://bit.ly/4ioZ9W7
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The AEP Team had a great outing last week supporting Jack & Jill Center’s 23rd Annual Light Up Downtown!
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Alterna Equity Partners reposted this
Eric Bertrand and Tessa Burg did a great job on their 100th podcast episode discussing our investment thesis of aquiring not only financially attractive add-ons, but more importantly talented professionals, systems, processes and companies with different and complementary domain expertise in order to fully build out SBU’s to offer a intergrated full service agency to clients. This provides ModOp the ability to align, prioritize, and maximize our clients ROI. As productivity is one of the the primary drivers for many of the large B2B clients, this continuing trend that ensures a consistent message and offers a single source of the truth continues to accelerate in the marketplace as we enter 2025. Well done to the entire ModOp team. Eric, you literally wrote the book on it! Upward and Onward!
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Our Alterna Equity Partners associates had a great time at the Finance Association of Miami's 2024 Charity Gala this Friday! Amazing event, bringing together 300+ attendees from across the South Florida alternative investment landscape and raising funds for our local community including SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity) Scholars Miami, Junior Achievement of Greater Miami, and Guitars Over Guns.
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Proud to be included in this Inc.'s Founder-Friendly Investor list for 2024! We truly embrace founder alignment and partnership as a core tenant of our investment thesis at Alterna.
Alterna Equity Partners Explore Inc.'s list of the 269 investment firms recommended by entrepreneurs.
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Alterna Equity Partners earned recognition as one of the standout firms entrepreneurs can trust to take their business to the next level. This is the kind of recognition that truly resonates with employees, prospects and clients — news worth sharing and celebrating. The list will be publicly revealed on Tuesday on inc.com.
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Great event featuring our own Rob Konrad!
Thanks to 200+ Syracuse University students, faculty, alumni & friends and the David B. Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics at Syracuse University for hosting an evening to remember last night at Sport Industry Night NYC. Jason Rich, CFA and his amazing team welcomed us to Rockefeller Capital Management and the views did not disappoint. Deidra Maddock led a panel with former Syracuse Orange Football alumni legends Rob Konrad and Justin Pugh 🍊Jeremy S Jordan, Megan Myers, MPH, Pam Mulligan, J.D., M.A., Jessica Pitcher
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Alterna Equity Partners is a unique private equity firm that focuses on partnering with Family-Owned Businesses and Founders who are not only looking for liquidity and succession planning, but a partner that will allow them to roll a substantial portion of their equity to participate in the future substantial growth and value creation in the next transaction. Alterna is an institutional partner who specializes in working with lower middle markets businesses as experts with in/outsourced skills and dedicated domain expertise who regularly deal with common challenges and the opportunities that flow there from the natural mean reversion in valuations from this inefficiency of the asset class once the institutionalization process is completed. Alterna provides the value-added resources and both identify and close and integrate add-ons acquisitions, and incorporated institutional digital transformation such as GL’s and CRMS needed to professionalize and measure progress at the company. We have expertise and a deep market knowledge and bench of capital providers to procure the best available institutional funding available to match the company’s investment goals. M&A expertise, both sourcing opportunities, closing and integrating these entities are a heavy workloads for our GP, but also quite valuable to the enterprise.. We’ve had much success in providing in direction and assisting in the sourcing of human capital to improve general company building and corporate top grading where we believe the skillset and redundancy is required, we are on top of both current operational needs and an eye on how the next buyers perception of a situation so we can receive a premium multiple at exit. We stress utilizing an integrated form of the OKR system with management to stay top on top and to continually iterate strategic planning and keep widely available progress information company wide to incorporating more regular touchpoint keep track of our investment thesis goals for significant growth and profitability in the the business in the coming 12-24 months of operation’ Alterna prides itself in structuring true alignment and having a true partnership focus for all material stakeholders for the portfolio companies, so we are all competing together on the same priorities to win and benefiting from the collective work of the group. Champions focus on what's best for the team every day, superstars worry about what’s it their best interest many times to the detriment of the organization. We’re focused on building championship teams at Alterna.