Allocate NYC: Summer Drinks with GPs & LPs
Date & time
Venue
Axel Springer US
Event description
Better conversations.
New York Summers create lasting memories.
Axel Springer and Allocator One are bringing together a carefully curated group of LPs and GPs for drinks and snacks in Nolita. No panels. No keynotes. Just the right people on a terrace in NYC summer. Invitation only. Terrace space is limited so RSVP asap.
Co-Hosts Next to Axel Springer & Allocator One, the event is supported by:
Pier Pier is members community for private market allocators. With events across NYC and SF, Pier is where managers raise capital and LPs find them.
Velora Legacy Mike and David are two-time YC founders, have raised hundreds of millions in capital, and invested in 50+ startups as angels. They are now building an early-stage fund focused on backing exceptional immigrant founders in the US.
About the hosts
Axel Springer is a family-owned, transatlantic media company that operates in more than 25 countries with over 10,000 employees. Its media brands include Bild, Business Insider, Morning Brew and Politico.
Allocator One backs the top 3% of emerging fund managers worldwide. We provide anchoring capital and infrastructure to help new funds launch and grow. In the past two years, we have invested in 30 specialized managers across the world.
Infra One is rebuilding fund admin from first principles: fully digital, API-native, and cost-aligned with the way venture funds actually operate. That means faster onboarding, cleaner data, better LP reporting, and radical cost reduction across the lifecycle of a fund.
Meet the hosts
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Niko Woischnik is an Advisor to Allocator One and a serial entrepreneur and investor, with investments in more than 40 startups. He has founded five companies with three exits and is the founder of Tech Open Air (TOA), one of Europe’s leading tech events, which has welcomed more than 130,000 attendees. Previously, Niko led business development across EMEA at AWS. He is a Techstars mentor and serves on the board of the Zeitbild Foundation.
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Charlotte Herrmann is a media strategist and advisor to Axel Springer’s U.S. business, with a decade of leadership experience across journalism, digital transformation, and executive operations in Germany and the United States — currently split between advising Axel Springer’s U.S. business and Business Operations at Morning Brew in New York.
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Spencer Chandlee is a 2x exited founder and prior unicorn operator turned GP and LP, now investing in outlier founders at the earliest stages and the managers who back them. Spencer also founded Pier, the private network and investment infrastructure for allocators where he supports and invests in emerging managers around the world.
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Mike is a 2x Y Combinator founder who started his career at Stripe and has made 50+ angel investments. He co-hosts one of Germany’s biggest startup podcasts and runs a weekly founder event series across New York and San Francisco that draws up to 300 people. He’s now building a new early-stage venture fund backing immigrant founders building in the US from day one.