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Footbridge Partners
Greg Geronemus and David Rosner run Footbridge Partners, a firm built on their own search-fund exit.
Footbridge Partners
Footbridge Partners invests in exceptional entrepreneurs whose mission is to source, buy and build a market leading company over the long term. We strive to be the capital partner of choice for searchers who desire more collaboration and more alignment with their investors. Having built a big business ourselves through the search fund model, we know what it takes to be successful in search, and we draw upon our experience as both searchers and investors to support the people we partner with. We believe exceptional outcomes are driven by exceptional people working together as a team.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
New York
Corporate office
New York, NY, United States
Principals
Greg Geronemus
Managing Partner
David Rosner
Managing Partner
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Footbridge Partners?
Managing Partners Greg Geronemus and David Rosner jointly lead the firm and appear to make investment decisions collectively. Both serve on the boards of the portfolio companies, and no separate investment committee is disclosed. The firm cites their shared experience operating smarTours as the engine behind their investment judgment.
Is Footbridge Partners structured as a private equity fund or a search-fund operator?
It operates as a hybrid. The firm provides committed capital to search-fund entrepreneurs and to committed-capital vehicle operators, not a blind-pool drawdown fund marketed as traditional closed-end PE. The structure allows Footbridge to underwrite specific operator-company pairs rather than committing capital to a generalist fund.
How does Footbridge Partners source its deals?
Sourcing runs through the search-fund community. Geronemus and Rosner teach the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition course at Harvard Business School, lecture at other MBA programs, and co-author search-fund cases — this gives them a direct line to top searchers before they raise vehicles. The firm's website describes its target as entrepreneurs who seek more collaboration and alignment than traditional search-fund investors offer.
What stage and size of company does Footbridge Partners target?
Footbridge targets lower-middle-market buyouts, typically founder- or family-owned businesses needing professionalization and succession planning. The firm's deal sheet includes companies across healthcare services, IT services, infrastructure, and software, consistent with a generalist search-fund mandate rather than a sector-constrained strategy.
Does Footbridge Partners run a separate philanthropic foundation?
No separate philanthropic foundation is disclosed. However, both founders signal philanthropic engagement: Geronemus serves on the board of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and the THANC Foundation, while Rosner co-authored an academic case on philanthropy in the search-fund ecosystem.
What is Footbridge Partners' relationship to Harvard Business School?
The relationship is deep and organic. Geronemus and Rosner met as section mates at HBS, formed their search fund there, and now teach the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition course as visiting executives. The firm recruits from the HBS network and co-authors teaching cases used in search-fund curricula, making the school both a talent pipeline and a reputational anchor point.
How is Footbridge Partners compensated relative to a traditional search-fund model?
The firm does not disclose its fee or carry structure publicly. Search-fund investors typically negotiate deal-by-deal economics with operators, and Footbridge's positioning as an aligned, collaborative capital partner suggests a structure that grants operators more equity upside than a conventional private equity buyout, but specific terms are not published.
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