Matthew Zubrow

Matthew R. Zubrow is an investment professional in New York who works within the Cohen family's investment network as an Associate at Seal Rock Partners and a Vice President at HEPCO Capital Management, the affiliated multi-strategy asset manager. Seal Rock Partners, founded in 2015, is the family-backed private equity and special-opportunities affiliate of Jonathan and Edward Cohen (working alongside Managing Partner Bill Fradin), and it acquires and builds lower-middle-market businesses into market leaders. Zubrow began his finance career as a mergers-and-acquisitions analyst in investment banking at Evercore Partners before moving to the buy side.

His investment experience spans multiple asset classes and totals billions of dollars in transactions, including public markets, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), private equity, venture capital, and debt. Beyond his core firm work, Zubrow has developed a personal thesis around emerging markets and using capital access as a tool to drive economic growth in underdeveloped regions, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He was named a 2024 Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council and is a member of the Milken Institute's Young Leaders Circle and a fellow of the Economic Club of New York.

Zubrow graduated with an AB with Honors from Dartmouth College and has been enrolled to attend the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) for an MBA. He is also active in philanthropy, particularly around mental health, serving on the boards of One Mind (where he is a Director on the Fundraising Committee), The Headstrong Project, and the David Network.

• Firm mandate (Seal Rock): Equity investments of roughly $10–50 million in growth-oriented, lower-middle-market companies with "high quality management teams, proven business models, and recurring revenue," frequently where there is a roll-up/consolidation angle.
• Deal types: Consolidations, growth equity, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and recapitalizations.
• Sectors the firm has backed: Healthcare, travel and curated experiences, mortgage/financial services, esports, and retail technology.
• Personal interest: Emerging-markets capital access and economic development, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa; aggregator profiles also tag him with sports/leisure and women-founded companies.
• Note: third-party angel/seed databases (e.g., AngelMatch) list Zubrow as an "angel investor" focused on seed deals, but this appears to derive from Seal Rock's portfolio rather than a documented independent personal angel program. Treat the angel/seed framing with caution and confirm directly.