Adam Rothenberg

Co-Founder & General Partner at BoxGroup

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Biography

Adam Rothenberg co-founded BoxGroup, a New York seed firm that invests from pre-seed through Series A with checks of up to USD 1 million, and is listed among its investors on the firm's team page. He was an analyst at the hedge fund Zimmer Lucas Partners for about three years before joining Techstars NY, where he served as director and worked with David Tisch mentoring founders. Press coverage of BoxGroup's 2019 and 2021 fund closes describes him as one of the firm's partners. BoxGroup's own site names its investors without giving them titles and does not attribute portfolio companies to individuals.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

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Career Timeline

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Worked for about three years as an analyst at the hedge fund Zimmer Lucas Partners.
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Joined Techstars NY, where he served as director and worked alongside David Tisch mentoring founders.
2015
With David Tisch, hired Nimi Katragadda and Greg Rosen as BoxGroup's first principals.
2021
Described as a partner of BoxGroup when the firm closed USD 255 million across two funds.

Sources & References

BoxGroup - Team ↗BoxGroup - About ↗VentureBeat - How the quiet Adam Rothenberg became number two at hot startup incubator, TechStars NY ↗Forbes - One Of New York's Top Seed Investors Takes On Outside Capital For The First Time ↗TechCrunch - BoxGroup closes on $255M across two funds to back startups at their earliest stages ↗TechCrunch - BoxGroup raises its first externally backed fund to invest in seed-stage startups ↗