About
Investor, advisor, and speaker, New York.
Track record
Fortune 500 corporate development & M&A
Investor, advisor, and speaker in New York. Founder of Value Alpha and Sonnerie VC. Fortune 500 corporate development and M&A on deals to roughly $26 billion, and the youngest EMBA graduate in Columbia Business School history. Born in Kraków, built here without inherited networks.
Today: build (software and products I ship myself), invest (venture funds), advise (leaders, founders, funds, students), speak (corporates and universities). Companies → Ventures. Work with me → Advisory.
Track Record
Started in Poland as a family pharmaceutical business, from pharmacies to manufacturing, now a diversified family office acquiring across the SME market: healthcare, commercial real estate, private education, and clean-tech.
Built without inherited networks. Structural disadvantage turned analytical edge.
Private markets valuation platform. Ventures →
Healthcare early-stage venture. Ventures →
Premier USA arm of Felpel Family Office (FFO): private equity, alternative investments, and trusted advisory, rooted in European legacy.
Youngest graduate in school history. VP, Venture Capital Club & Entrepreneurship Organization. Ongoing mentor.
In-house corp-dev: deal origination, valuation, due diligence, post-merger integration.
FAQ
Tomasz Felpel is a New York founder, investor, advisor, and speaker. He founded Value Alpha, a private-markets valuation platform, and Sonnerie VC, a healthcare venture firm, after a Fortune 500 corporate development career with M&A deals up to roughly $26 billion. Born in Kraków, he built his career in American finance without inherited networks.
He is known for founding Value Alpha, a private markets valuation platform, and Sonnerie VC, a healthcare early-stage venture, and for a Fortune 500 corporate development background covering billions USD in M&A transactions.
He earned an EMBA from Columbia Business School as the youngest EMBA graduate in school history, where he served as VP of the Venture Capital Club and Entrepreneurship Organization. He built his career in in-house Fortune 500 corporate development and M&A, covering deal origination, valuation, due diligence, and post-merger integration.