# Joe McCurdy

> Joe McCurdy is a funding round investor at Guggenheim Partners backing Internet and Wireless. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Guggenheim Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guggenheim-partners)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccurdy-77177529/

Joe McCurdy is a funding round investor at Guggenheim Partners in New York focused on Internet and Wireless. McCurdy is a Managing Director and Head of Origination in the Corporate Credit Group. He leads Guggenheim’s effort in sourcing and structuring directly negotiated transactions for both middle market private debt investments and larger underwritten co-arranger transactions. Mr. McCurdy was previously Co-Head of Research and has been with GuggenheimPartners since 2004. In the course of his career, he has covered a range of industries including Telecom, Media, Technology, Healthcare and Aerospace & Defense. Mr. McCurdy continues to be active in Guggenheim’s European Lending business based in Dublin, Ireland, an office he helped establish from 2007-2009. Mr. McCurdy also coordinates a team in Mumbai, India that augments the group’s research efforts. Prior to his time in Dublin, he covered Gaming, Lodging, Leisure and Real Estate in the New York office. Mr. McCurdy received a B.A. in History from Williams College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 1 | 100% |
| Wireless | 1 | 100% |
| Telecommunications | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FiberLight | 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 |  | Sep 16, 2020 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## 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 Joe McCurdy invest in?

Joe McCurdy invests primarily in Internet, Wireless and Telecommunications startups, most often at Funding Round 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 Joe McCurdy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joe McCurdy closed in Sep 2020. 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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