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Family Office Intelligence
A continuously maintained graph of U.S. family offices: identity, team, observed investments, public holdings, relationships and dated signals of change. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such, with the source and the date, on every row. Unknown is printed as unknown.
Family office profile
Alder Companies
Why this class: Alder Companies' own rebrand press release says it is led by members of the Sturm Family and is a multi-faceted family office; Sturm Group/Sturm Financial Group rebranded to Alder in January 2022..
Verified Sep 14, 2026 (4 days ago)
Last observed Sep 16, 2026 · 12 observations · 2 sources
1 people · 0 investments · 0 public positions · 0 events
Identity
85
high
Data depth
30
moderate
Freshness
100
high
Active deployment
0
low
Direct investing
0
low
External managers
0
low
Private markets
0
low
Sponsor-friendly
0
low
Real estate
0
low
Co-investment
0
low
Contactability
25
moderate
Mandate confidence
0
low
Twelve separate dimensions, each 0 to 100 from listed components. There is no single family office score; the components are in the evidence section.
Overview
Profile completeness 38% (high value, high value shallow; the most valuable missing fact is direct investments)
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- Classification
- Single family office (confirmed)
- Description
- unknown
- Headquarters
- Denver, CO
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- unknown
- Website
- aldercos.com
- Year established
- unknown
- Assets under management
- unknown
- Capital scale
- Reported office AUM: unknown. No public number of any kind.
Classification history
- Sep 14, 2026Single family office (confirmed) 85%Alder Companies' own rebrand press release says it is led by members of the Sturm Family and is a multi-faceted family office; Sturm Group/Sturm Financial Group rebranded to Alder in January 2022.Factverifiedaldercos.com“Alder Companies, led by members of the Sturm Family, is a multi-faceted family office that manages and supports multiple business lines”
Family and wealth origin
- Family served
- Sturm family (Donald Sturm) family
- Source of wealth
- unknown
- Operating company origin
- unknown
Team
| Person | Title | Responsibility | Business contact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Sturm | CEO of Alder Companies | Leadership | email: ssturm@aldercos.com (verified by provider, Sep 15, 2026) | aldercos.com Fact |
Office contact points
Investment mandate
Stated (their words, cited)
No cited statement of mandate on the record.
Observed (from the investment record)
No investments on the record yet, so nothing is observed.
Inferred (regulatory shape and team)
Nothing to infer from.
- Invests directly
- unknown
- Allocates to managers
- unknown
- Asset classes
- unknown
- Sectors
- unknown
- Geography
- unknown
- Check size
- unknown
Direct investments
No substantiated direct investment on the record. Absence here is absence of evidence, not evidence of absence.
Fund and manager relationships
No fund commitment or manager relationship on the record. Commitment amounts are shown only when public.
Public stakes and holdings
Form 13F holdings
No 13F filing on the record for this office.
Real estate
No documented real estate ownership link. A property is attributed to an office only through a documented control relationship, never from a surname.
Co-investors
No co-investor on the record.
Independent sponsor relationships
No cited relationship to an independent sponsor.
Signals and timeline
No dated events beyond 13F filings.
Sources and evidence
Every observation behind this profile: the value, when it was effective, the source, the quote where there is one, and whether it is a fact, an inference or an estimate. 12 shown.
Score components
Freshness
+100 days since the newest source-dated fact or analyst verification (1 days)
Contactability
+15 named decision-makers (Stephen Sturm (CEO of Alder Companies))
+10 verified business emails (1)
Data confidence
+10 website
+10 people
+10 independent sources (2 sources)
Active deployment
no components; scored 0
Exists confidence
+20 website
+20 independent sources (2 sources)
+30 analyst-verified
Research priority
+15 single family or family investment company
+0 rank (1393)
Mandate confidence
no components; scored 0
Identity confidence
+85 classification (CONFIRMED_SFO (Alder Companies' own rebrand press release says it is led by members of the Sturm Family and is a multi-faceted family office; Sturm Group/Sturm Financial Group rebranded to Alder in January 2022.))
Real estate propensity
no components; scored 0
Co investment propensity
no components; scored 0
Family identity confidence
+40 family named (Sturm family (Donald Sturm) family)
Private markets propensity
no components; scored 0
Current activity confidence
+25 a source-dated fact within 12 months (1 days)
External manager propensity
no components; scored 0
Direct investment propensity
no components; scored 0
Independent sponsor propensity
no components; scored 0
| Fact | Value | Effective | Source | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family served | Sturm family (Donald Sturm) family “Alder Companies, led by members of the Sturm Family, is a multi-faceted family office that manages and supports multiple business lines” | Sep 14, 2026 | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Office type (stated) | single_family_office “Alder Companies, led by members of the Sturm Family, is a multi-faceted family office that manages and supports multiple business lines” | Sep 14, 2026 | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Site mentions | real_estate | Sep 16, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Site mentions | real_estate | Sep 15, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Site mentions | real_estate | Sep 14, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Website | aldercos.com “office website aldercos.com” | Sep 14, 2026 | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Website read | site-fo-3 | Sep 16, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Website read | site-fo-3 | Sep 15, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Website read | site-fo-3 | Sep 14, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Website title | Alder | Sep 16, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Website title | Alder | Sep 15, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |
| Website title | Alder | Sep 14, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) aldercos.com | Fact |