# Alan D. Schwartz

> Alan D. Schwartz is a seed investor at Guggenheim Partners (Chicago) backing Audio and Wearables. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Guggenheim Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guggenheim-partners)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Alan D. Schwartz is a seed investor at Guggenheim Partners in Chicago focused on Audio and Wearables. Mr. Schwartz is Executive Chairman of Guggenheim Partners and serves on the Firm’s Executive and Management committees. He is the former CEO of The Bear Stearns Companies. During his career with Bear Stearns, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer, as Executive Vice President and Co-Head of Investment Banking and in other financialmanagement positions.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Audio | 1 | 100% |
| Wearables | 1 | 100% |
| Consumer Electronics | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Doppler Labs | Doppler Labs was founded in 2013 with the mission to make computing more immersive and human. Here Active Listening, Doppler Lab’s first digital product, was named TIME magazine’s Best Invention of 2015. In February 2017, Doppler Labs released Here One, the evolution of Here Active Listening and the first 3-in-1 wireless smart headphone,delivering premium sound quality, Smart Noise Cancellation, and Speech Enhancement | $3M | Seed | Feb 01, 2014 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Jaws Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaws-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sterling.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sterlingvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brainchild Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trisiras-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Guggenheim Partners

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Guggenheim Partners embodies a successful, century-old family tradition that emphasizes wealth preservation with sustainable capital growth.Guggenheim Partners is a diversified financial services firm, offers investment management and banking, and insurance services. Their mission is to offer clients unparalleled service and performance throughdesign and execution of financial services. They provide a sophisticated array of wealth and investment management services. Guggenheim Partners honors the high standards and achievements of their family history, to which they add modern expertise in wealth management, investment management, and capital markets services. Their approach to providing services to their clients differs in design and practice from that of other firms. They ground their service offerings in pioneering academic research and proven approaches to investment strategies. Their family history has shown repeatedly that talented, knowledgeable and experienced individuals make the difference in any line of business. As entrepreneurs and investors, they recognize how creative thinking and risk-taking produce wealth. As investment professionals, they understand how to manage wealth prudently. As capital markets professionals, they understand how to assess, measure, and manage financial risk. As trustees and board members of foundations and endowments, they understand the unique financial challenges that confront these institutions. As stewards of the wealth of the Guggenheim family and other families and institutions, they know from experience the investment challenges associated with multi-generational wealth.

5 contacts available at Guggenheim Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alan D. Schwartz | Executive Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-d-schwartz |
| Alexander Ramirez | Senior Managing Director - Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-ramirez |
| Caroline Frain | Director, Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-bujak |
| David Korman | Chief Legal Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-korman |
| Joe McCurdy | Senior Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-mccurdy |

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## FAQ

### What does Alan D. Schwartz invest in?

Alan D. Schwartz invests primarily in Audio, Wearables and Consumer Electronics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alan D. Schwartz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alan D. Schwartz closed in Feb 2014. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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