# John Casesa

> John Casesa is a seed investor at Guggenheim Partners backing SaaS. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. 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: Oct 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-casesa-812a773

John Casesa is a seed investor at Guggenheim Partners in New York focused on SaaS and Software. John Casesa is the Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Transportation | 1 | 100% |
| Public Transportation | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Axilion Smart Mobility | Axilion Smart Mobility is an AI software company.The company is reimagining what is possible for mobility through its AI-based Digital Twin platform that merges the physical and virtual worlds, to create less congested, citizen-friendly streets. Axilion’s technology has been built from the ground-up alongside Microsoft and generates real-timetraffic insights and strategic traffic plans to help cities overcome chronic congestion and pollution, improve safety, and enhance urban livelihood. With COVID-19 forcing transportation patterns to change, Axilion’s Mobility Digital Twin and AI technology empowers cities to be agile and quickly adapt their transport networks in real-time, based on the new and ever-evolving needs. | $6M | Seed | Oct 28, 2019 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- Shlomo Group — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Shmeltzer family — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Sixt Ventures — 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joe McCurdy | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-mccurdy |
| John Casesa | Senior Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-casesa |
| 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 |

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## FAQ

### What does John Casesa invest in?

John Casesa invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Transportation startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact John Casesa?

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### When did John Casesa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Casesa closed in Oct 2019. 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.

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