Alder Ventures

About Us

Alder Ventures is the investment arm of Alder Companies, the Sturm Family office. With more than three decades of experience in a variety of industries including telecommunications, real estate, and financial services, we invest thematically across diverse opportunity sets.

Anchored with significant committed capital, we are able to weather short-term volatility to preserve and grow long-term assets.

Our process produces exclusive investment opportunities.

Investment Modules

Our team’s objective is to provide superior risk-adjusted results by gaining exposure to investment opportunities through one or more of the following four modules:

Each investment module helps us to form a mosaic of the investment landscape by providing unique insight and deal flow into various asset classes and investments, which creates a holistic approach to portfolio construction.

Concentrated portfolios of public securities primarily composed of common stocks and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Our disciplined process is driven by thematic idea generation that incorporates our fundamental research, quantitative factors, and the proprietary information provided by our managers and direct investments.
Common Stocks
- We target high-quality businesses with sustainable competitive advantages.
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
- We select tax-efficient, diversified, and low-fee ETFs that target specific investment themes.
Our network provides access to the best-in-class, exclusive public managers with superior historical track records and strong risk management skills.
We also invest in and seed undiscovered, talented managers that we believe have consistent alpha-generating abilities.
We access public managers through the following assets classes: Equity, Credit, Crossover, and Hedge Funds.
Representative investments
- Hudson Bay Capital
- ShawSpring Partners
- Kabouter
Private capital has historically generated long-term excess returns over liquid market benchmarks. By accepting short-term illiquidity we believe private capital will enhance long-term portfolio returns.
Our due diligence efforts are focused on discovering private capital teams with superior long-term returns and repeatable processes.
We favor teams that provide unique investment insights and deal flow including co-investment opportunities.
We access private capital funds through the following asset classes: Private Equity, Growth Equity, Venture Capital, Credit, and Real Assets.
Representative investments include:
- Iconiq Growth
- Abstract Ventures
- Avenir
- Center Oak Partners

Direct Co-Invest

Our unique modular approach has generated a significant pipeline of high-quality opportunities. Through our diligence process, we identify businesses disrupting legacy industries with large addressable markets.

Representative investments include: