Investor · Organizer · Builder
Backing founders.
Amplifying ideas.
Co-founding Partner at Alpha Partners, Co-founding Producer of TEDxAsburyPark, and lifelong learner working at the intersection of venture capital, community, and ideas worth spreading.
Alpha Partners
The original pro rata growth fund. By partnering rather than competing with early stage VCs, Alpha systematically invests in over-subscribed growth rounds led by top tier firms.
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Since 2013, Brian Smiga and the TEDxAsburyPark team have produced 250 TED Talks viewed by 7000 live guests and seven million online. 2026-27 season underway.
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Venture capitalist, Co-founder, Host, Writer, Producer, Actor, Director, Gardener, Cyclist, Paddler, Father.
Full bioAbout Brian
Curious by nature.
Driven by ideas.
Brian Smiga is a General Partner at Alpha Partners, a growth-stage venture firm with over $400M AUM. He co-founded the firm alongside Steve Brotman and has spent more than a decade backing category-defining technology companies alongside the world's top early-stage VCs.
Outside of capital, Brian co-organizes TEDxAsburyPark — an independently licensed TED event on the New Jersey Shore that he has helped produce since 2013. He is also an actor, director, and writer, with stage and screen credits spanning two decades.
Recent highlights
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TEDxAsburyPark 2026 — speaker applications open Community
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Alpha Partners — Fund IV SPV pipeline expanding Venture Capital
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Performance: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stage
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Alpha Partners — white paper on pro rata rights in venture Venture Capital
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