Guggenheim Partners
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Guggenheim Partners is a VC fund in Chicago focused on FinTech and Financial Services. 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.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
- Fund size:
- $2B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Guggenheim Partners invests in
Stages Guggenheim Partners invests in
Countries Guggenheim Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (19%)
- Financial Services 6 (19%)
- Finance 4 (13%)
- Internet 4 (13%)
- InsurTech 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (23%)
- Funding Round 5 (16%)
- Debt Financing 5 (16%)
- Seed 4 (13%)
- Series B 4 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Joe McCurdy
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
John Casesa
Senior Managing Director
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Senior Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Alan D. Schwartz
Executive Chairman
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Executive Chairman | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Alexander Ramirez
Senior Managing Director - Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT)
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Senior Managing Director - Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Caroline Frain
Director, Marketing
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Director, Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syndigo enables commerce by supporting the efficient transfer of product information through its network of brands and their customers. The company provides descriptive product and nutritional information, images, and other digital media, powered by deep analytics to empower engaging brand experiences online and in-store. Through Syndigo'sintegrated platform, Content Experience Hub, clients can publish, manage, syndicate, and audit product content across the largest trading network of brands and recipients in the world. | $550M / Debt Financing / Sep 05, 2025 | ||
| FirstDigital Telecom is a leading fiber-based carrier in the Western United States providing a full suite of Business services including Local Voice, Long Distance, Internet, VOIP, CO-Location, Managed Services and Fiber-to-the-Tower/Premise. | Debt Financing / Dec 24, 2021 | ||
| Sysdig is driving the secure DevOps movement, empowering organizations to confidently secure containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. Sysdig is a SaaS platform built on an open source stack that includes Falco and sysdig OSS, the open standards for runtime threat detection and response. Hundreds of companies rely on Sysdig for container and cloudsecurity and visibility. | $350M / Series G / Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| FiberLight transforms the way businesses communicate today by constructing and delivering purpose built fiber optic network services that flex and scale with your communication needs. Offering best in breed Carrier Ethernet technology on a $1 billion diversely constructed optical ring topology network, FiberLight provides significant economies ofscale, enabling customers to consolidate leased lines and multiple services onto one private, high-speed, secure platform. Contact the FiberLight sales team for a custom network solution specific to your business needs. | $325M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 16, 2020 | ||
| SpringHill Entertainment creates compelling stories for television, features, and digital. SpringHill pride ourselves on incubating, developing, and producing work that speaks to a cross-cultural audience. | $100M / Jun 25, 2020 | ||
| The SpringHill Company is comprised of SpringHill Entertainment, Uninterrupted, and The Robot Company. | $100M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 25, 2020 | ||
| Protecht, Inc. is a family of companies leveraging embedded technologies to distribute insurance solutions across today’s online economy. We power our partners with financial and inventory control, security protocols, data analytics, customer engagement, and increased conversions. With over 100 years of combined experience in fraud, risk,insurance, finance and payments, our industry-leading technologies provide a robust economic infrastructure by giving peace of mind for business and consumers, while providing an end-to-end solution for our select insurance partners.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ | $5M / Debt Financing / Jan 05, 2020 | ||
| Moneythink is an American ed-tech non-profit organization tackling America’s 1.6 trillion dollar student debt problem, harnessing the power of people and technology to bring transparency to college costs. The organization ensures all students are equipped to invest in their futures, keeping students on track by minimizing financial complexity andrisk while maximizing potential and minimizing stress. As a leader in youth-focused financial wellness, Moneythink has served over 32,000 students since 2008. Moneythink is creating a public-facing, no-cost Award Comparison Tool that helps low-income and 1st-gen students to plan for, cover, and manages all of their college costs through a healthy mix of aid, savings, loans, and work. | $15K / Grant / Nov 07, 2019 | ||
| Cogni is a next-gen platform that bringing a banking, digital assets, commerce and lifestyle on a single application. | $6.2M / Seed / Oct 23, 2019 | ||
| Bold Penguin is a commercial insurance exchange that connects customers, agents, and carriers to match the right quote in record time. With a heavy focus on the agents, Bold Penguin pushes the boundaries of user experience for businesses, an easy tool for agents, and a streamlined process of underwriting for carriers. The company operates anExchange which utilizes a set of solutions to identify, triage, quote, and bind commercial insurance in a highly efficient and tech-enabled way. It plans to deliver on the platform enhancements which include more flexibility in how the core technology is leveraged by enterprise customers, expanding in excess and surplus lines. The Company offers a streamlined process of underwriting for carriers in commercial property and casualty insurance services.Bold Penguin was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA. | $32M / Series B / Sep 23, 2019 | ||
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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What does Guggenheim Partners invest in?
Guggenheim Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Guggenheim Partners includes Joe McCurdy (Managing Director), John Casesa (Senior Managing Director) and Alan D. Schwartz (Executive Chairman), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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