# Mesirow Financial

> Mesirow Financial is a VC fund in Chicago backing Manufacturing and Video. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $249M
- Last fund: Jan 2021
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/mesirow-financial
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MesirowFin
- Website: http://www.mesirowfinancial.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mesirowfinancial

Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm that specializes in financial services and software. Mesirow Financial understands, anticipates, and meets its clients' changing financial needs with a multitude of high-quality products and services. It was founded in 1937 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 17% |
| Video | 1 | 8% |
| Energy | 1 | 8% |
| Mobile | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series E | 3 | 25% |
| Series F | 2 | 17% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 58% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Richard Price | Chairman and CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-s-price |
| Dominick J. Mondi | Senior Managing Director- Institutional Sales and Trading | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominick-j-mondi |
| Gerald J. Levin | Senior Managing Director- Sale-Leaseback Capital | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerald-j-levin |
| Howard M. Rossman | Vice Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-m-rossman |
| James C. Tyree | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-c-tyree |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CBL & Associates Properties | CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (CBL) is a self-managed, self-administered, fully integrated real estate investment trust (REIT).The Company owns, develops, acquires, leases, manages, and operates regional shopping malls, open-air centers, associated centers, community centers and office properties. Its properties are located in 27 states,but are primarily in the southeastern and midwestern United States. It conducts substantially all of its business through the Operating Partnership. It is the 100% owner of two qualified REIT subsidiaries, CBL Holdings I, Inc. and CBL Holdings II, Inc. CBL Holdings I, Inc. is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership.In May 2014, the Company sold Lakeshore Mall in Sebring, Florida. | $78M | Post-IPO Debt | Jul 08, 2025 | http://cblproperties.com |
| Propel Holdings | Propel Holdings is a fintech platform that provides a credit solution to consumers. Propel Holdings offers an unparalleled customer service experience, robust and automated customer acquisition strategies, proprietary underwriting models, and an industry-leading loan management system. | $85M | Post-IPO Debt | Apr 28, 2025 | https://www.propelholdings.com/ |
| CENX | CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENXprovides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 25, 2015 | http://www.cenx.com |
| Pivot3 | Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational andoverall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future.Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time.Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more. | $45M | Series G | Feb 24, 2015 | http://www.pivot3.com |
| Pivot3 | Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational andoverall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future.Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time.Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more. | $12M | Series E | Aug 07, 2014 | http://www.pivot3.com |
| CENX | CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENXprovides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years. | $9.5M |  | Jun 25, 2012 | http://www.cenx.com |
| Grubhub | Grubhubis a online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace with the largest and most comprehensive network of restaurant partners, as well as nearly 24 million active diners. Dedicated to connecting diners with the food they love from their favourite local restaurants, Grubhub elevates food ordering through innovative restauranttechnology, easy-to-use platforms and an improved delivery experience. Grubhub features nearly 300,000 restaurants and is proud to partner with more than 200,000 of these restaurants in over 4,000 U.S. cities. The Grubhub portfolio of brands includes Grubhub, Seamless, LevelUp, AllMenus and MenuPages. | $50M | Series E | Sep 20, 2011 | http://www.grubhub.com |
| Serious Energy | Serious Materials develops and manufactures sustainable green building materials that dramatically reduce the impact of the 'built environment' on the climate.The company was voted #1 at Cleantech Venture Forum XII, won the first Aspen Institute award for innovation in Corporate Energy Conservation and Global Gypsum Product of theYear. It has also been recognized by TIME/CNN, Fortune, Business Week, AlwaysOn and more as one of the most promising green companies. | $19.8M | Series D | Jun 28, 2010 | http://www.seriousenergy.com |
| Serious Energy | Serious Materials develops and manufactures sustainable green building materials that dramatically reduce the impact of the 'built environment' on the climate.The company was voted #1 at Cleantech Venture Forum XII, won the first Aspen Institute award for innovation in Corporate Energy Conservation and Global Gypsum Product of theYear. It has also been recognized by TIME/CNN, Fortune, Business Week, AlwaysOn and more as one of the most promising green companies. | $60M | Series C | Sep 22, 2009 | http://www.seriousenergy.com |
| Dexterra | Dexterra is a mobile platform and application provider, with complete solutions to manage and optimize your mobile workforce.Dexterra Concert, its mobile platform provides and open standards-based development environment that supports applications running on all types of mobile devices, integrated with most common back-office systems, anddeployed in numerous countries and languages around the world.Its portfolio of mobile applications support field service, scheduling, dispatch, mobile tracking, field sales, asset management and location-based services.Business leaders in a variety of industries depend on Dexterra to mobile their operations, such as ADP, Ikon, Parts Associates, Safelite Autoglass, Tennant, Virgin Media, Verizon and Vodafone. | $21.5M | Series F | Oct 02, 2008 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [InterWest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interwest-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [S3 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s3-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcm) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EnerTech Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enertech-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mesirow Financial invest in?

Mesirow Financial invests primarily in Manufacturing, Video and Energy startups, most often at Series E and Series F stage. Most of the 12 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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### Who are the partners at Mesirow Financial?

The team at Mesirow Financial includes Richard Price (Chairman and CEO), Dominick J. Mondi (Senior Managing Director- Institutional Sales and Trading) and Gerald J. Levin (Senior Managing Director- Sale-Leaseback Capital), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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