Alan Patricof
Alan Patricof is the founder and managing director of Greycroft LLC. A longtime innovator and advocate for venture capital, Alan entered the industry in its formative days with the creation of Patricof & Co. Ventures Inc., a predecessor to Apax Partners – today, one of the world's leading private equity firms with $35 billion under management. He stepped back from the daily administration and operational aspects of Apax Partners, LP in 2001 to concentrate on a group of small venture deals on its behalf.
Over the course of his 40 year career in private equity, Alan has been instrumental in growing the venture capital field from a base of high net-worth individuals to its position today with broad institutional backing, as well as playing a key role in the essential legislative initiatives that have guided its evolution. He has helped build and foster the growth of numerous major global companies, including, among others, America Online, Office Depot, Cadence Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., Apple Computer, FORE Systems, NTL, and Audible. He was also a founder and chairman of the board of New York magazine, which later acquired the Village Voice and New West magazine.
Alan is active in the New York community as a board member of both the New York Small Business Venture Fund and New Jobs for New York Association, and he currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Columbia University Graduate School of Business. His philanthropic activities also include service on the boards of TechnoServe, Trickle Up Program, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and the Global Advisory Board of Endeavor, Inc. He is also a board member of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
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Venture capitalist Alan Patricof delayed a trip to St. Barts last week to be honored by Trickle Up at Cipriani Wall Street. Last night, he was back at the catering hall to be honored by the Opportunity Network.
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Alan Patricof’s investment in America Online when it was a startup in the early 1980s came full circle when AOL Inc. said yesterday it was acquiring the Huffington Post, another one of his ventures, for $315 million.
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Barry Silbert was born to trade.
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A cheerful young lady sitting under a “Box Office Open” sign last night offered $1,000 seats to see Steve Martin play the banjo July 2.
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Greycroft Partners LLC , the venture-capital firm started by Alan Patricof , hired Paul Bricault , formerly of the William Morris Agency, and software- industry veteran Kirill Sheynkman as venture partners.
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Felix Rohatyn sat near a display case showing a gold Monopoly set last night at the Museum of American Finance, greeting admirers.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a public-private board of directors, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and venture capitalist Alan Patricof , today approved a $350.7 million grant for Malawi to boost economic growth by improving its electric power system.
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For all its ambitious efforts, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service in the end wound up with a couple of hot tips about the gold market and an outed agent whose supposed predilection for kinky sex was smeared across tabloid headlines.
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Three of the accused “deep-cover” Russian spies may have had jobs that put them in contact with opinion makers, corporate executives or aspiring technology industry workers.
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