# TransUnion

> TransUnion is a VC fund in Chicago backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 65%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/transunion/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TransUnion
- Website: http://www.transunion.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/transunion.crb.946

TransUnion is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Total credit protection all in one place from credit alerts, credit reports and credit scores. Get your free credit score today from TransUnion, The Source!

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 8 | 47% |
| FinTech | 7 | 41% |
| Advertising | 3 | 18% |
| Identity Management | 3 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 18% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 24% |
| Series B | 3 | 18% |
| Corporate Round | 3 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 12% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 59% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 18% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| South Africa | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Cartwright | President & Chief Executive Officer | 0 | — |
| Gwendolyn Smith | Director of Product Marketing | 0 | — |
| Joe Mellman | VP - Mortgage Business Leader | 1 | — |
| John A. Canning | Member of the Board of Directors | 0 | — |
| Rick Zois | Sr. Business Consultant, Fraud and Identity Management | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SavvyMoney | SavvyMoney is a venture funded, fintech company that provides integrated credit score and personal finance solutions to over 125 Credit Unions and Banks. SavvyMoney’s solution provides free credit score, report and daily monitoring. Its pre-qualification offer engine displays targeted financial offers from the financial service partner based on theuser’s credit score. SavvyMoney is poised for significant growth in 2017-18. In addition to receiving a strategic investment from TransUnion(NYSE: TRU), SavvyMoney entered into a partnership with Fiserv (NASDAQ: FISV) to power its credit score solution, Credit Sense on 9 of their online banking platforms. | $225M | Private Equity | Oct 27, 2025 |  |
| Omnisient | Omnisient is a leading technology provider of a secure data collaboration platform that empowers organisations to derive deep insights from their data. The company helps organisations unlock growth opportunities and new audience segments without compromising the privacy of their customers; either through collaborations with other businesses orbetween internal divisions.Omnisient’s proprietary platform is uniquely positioned to enable organisations to optimise data sets that are fully compliant with regulations (e.g. POPIA, GDPR, etc); and risk-free; and operates internationally. | $12.5M | Series A | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| ID5 | ID5 was created to improve online advertising for consumers, media owners and advertisers, with the ultimate goal to help publishers grow sustainable revenue. ID5 provides the advertising ecosystem with a transparent, scalable and privacy-compliant identity infrastructure. Its solutions improve user recognition and match rates and provide astable, consented and encrypted user ID to replace third-party cookies and MAIDs. This enables publishers to better monetise their audiences, advertisers to run effective and measurable campaigns, and platforms to maximise the value of data and inventory for their customers. | $20M | Series B | Apr 09, 2024 |  |
| SatSure | SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company that leverages advances in satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to help solve problems at the nexus of sustainability of food, water, and energy security. |  | Series A | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| Truework | Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment. It is used for employment and income verification which puts consumers in control of the data. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and developer APIs. | $24M | Corporate Round | Jun 14, 2023 |  |
| Bud | Bud Financial (“Bud”) enriches financial data, identifying the likes of merchant, category, location and regularity of transactions, to provide actionable insights and readable inputs for LLMs in the financial services industry.Scaling rapidly, Bud has been a trailblazer in its use of AI since 2015. The company has enabled banks and fintechsworldwide to get customer context from their transaction data so they can personalize the banking experience, proactively manage risk and optimize their business operations.With tens of billions of transactions processed, Bud’s market-leading transactional enrichment, categorization and analysis helps financial institutions to become intelligent enterprises, fully harnessing their customer data and finding new, data-driven opportunities to grow. |  | Corporate Round | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| SavvyMoney | SavvyMoney is a venture funded, fintech company that provides integrated credit score and personal finance solutions to over 125 Credit Unions and Banks. SavvyMoney’s solution provides free credit score, report and daily monitoring. Its pre-qualification offer engine displays targeted financial offers from the financial service partner based on theuser’s credit score. SavvyMoney is poised for significant growth in 2017-18. In addition to receiving a strategic investment from TransUnion(NYSE: TRU), SavvyMoney entered into a partnership with Fiserv (NASDAQ: FISV) to power its credit score solution, Credit Sense on 9 of their online banking platforms. | $45M | Private Equity | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Monevo | Monevo empowers brokers, marketers and Lenders by providing an advanced global technology platform and marketplace, where users can maximise returns whilst providing the best outcome for consumers.The most advanced global lending platform allows lenders to access 1m+ potential new customers a month and allows Affiliates and Brokers to originatecustomers for this marketplace. This is possible using simple integration such as, cross-device hosted application forms and web service API's.Monevo also offers enhanced data services, giving users real-time market data and financial intelligence, allowing for enhanced decision making for Credit Providers, Third Parties and Lenders. |  | Corporate Round | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Springcoin, Inc | Spring Labs they supports industries like healthcare and media with measurements like P2P (peer-to-peer), Spring, and white-labeled hosting. | $30M | Series B | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| FinLocker | FinLocker is a financial services technology innovator, founded by a team of veterans and executives across the financial services and technology industries. It provides a personal financial assistant tool that enables loans and financial transactions. With consumer consent, FinLocker captures key borrower data and applies intelligent analyticssuch as loan product recommendations based on a consumer’s financial profile, asset and income verification, and more. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri. |  | Series A | Oct 19, 2020 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LeadBlock Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leadblock-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Progress Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/progress-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [S4S Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s4s-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Spectrum Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spectrum-equity-investors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [360 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/360-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aafmanagement) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does TransUnion invest in?

TransUnion invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Advertising startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact TransUnion?

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### Who are the partners at TransUnion?

The team at TransUnion includes Chris Cartwright (President & Chief Executive Officer), Gwendolyn Smith (Director of Product Marketing) and Joe Mellman (VP - Mortgage Business Leader), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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