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What does Mesirow Financial invest in?
Mesirow Financial invests most often at Series E and Venture (53% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Collaboration Tools, Software and Productivity Tools.
Mesirow Financial highlights
- 01
20 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Series E and Venture: 53% of its rounds
- 03
3 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- Collaboration ToolsSoftwareProductivity Tools
- Based in
- CHICAGO, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first20 appearances
- 2015
2 rounds
- Feb
- Feb
- 2014
2 rounds
- Oct
- Aug
- 2013
1 round
- Oct
- 2012
2 rounds
- Jun
- Feb
- 2011
1 round
- Sept
- 2010
2 rounds
- Jun
- Feb
- 2009
2 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
- 2008
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jan
- 2007
3 rounds
- Sept
- Jun
- Feb
- 2006
2 rounds
- Mar
- Feb
- 2005
1 round
- Sept
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration24 named
ARAlasdair Robert James CrippsChief Executive Officer & Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Real Estate Direct Investment DivisioniForm ADV
BDBrian D CornellExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
BDBrian David PriceHead of Advisory ServicesiForm ADV
CEChad Edward BrownSvp, Sales StrategyiForm ADV
CBChristopher BowringDirectoriFiling they signed
DMDallas Marie VillarrealSvp, Operations & CCOiForm ADV
EDEric D SiegelExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
FSFred StambaughManaging Director of Mesirow Financial Alternative Investments, LLC, manageriFiling they signed
GCGary C. KlopfensteinAuthorized Person of Mesirow Financial Commodities Management, LLC, the Investment Manager and Sole Member of Mesirow Financial Commodities Fund I G.P., LLC, the General Partner and PromoteriFiling they signed
GRGeoff RuddickDirectoriFiling they signed
GLGeoffrey LutzExecutive Officer, DirectoriFiling they signed
GJGregory J RobbinsExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
HMHoward M RossmanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
JMJeffrey Michael LevineDirectoriForm ADV
JJJesse Joseph KeigChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
JJJohn Joseph BradenOwner, PrincipaliForm ADV
JBJon BrorsonExecutive Officer, DirectoriFiling they signed
JPJoseph Patrick HoffmanCurrency Management Department, PresidentiForm ADV
KAKathryn Ann VorisekSenior Managing Director, Equity ManagementiForm ADV
LMLee Michael GordonWealth Management Department, ChairmaniForm ADV
MBMartin B KaplanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MJMary Jo Moon HayesChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
MDMatthew David CoenCFOiForm ADV
MEMichael Edward AnninFiduciary Solutions Department, PresidentiForm ADV
We also hold 75 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$85Bassets it manages, 5 advisers combinedOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Mesirow Financial Private Equity Advisors, Inc.
- SEC number
- CRD 309685
Funds on its Form ADV
31 private funds, $9.4B in gross assets · filed Dec 2024
Private equity 13Real estate 8Closed-end private credit fu 5
- Mesirow Financial Real Estate Value Fund IV, L.P.Real estate32 investors$1.8B
- Mesirow Financial Real Estate Value Fund III, L.P.Real estate41 investors$1.6B
- Mesirow Financial Private Equity Fund VII-B L.P.Private equity62 investors$830M
- Mesirow Financial Private Equity Fund VII-A, L.P.Private equity53 investors$826M
- Mesirow Financial Private Equity Partnership Fund VI, L.P.Private equity48 investors$684M
- Mesirow Financial Private Equity Fund VIII-A, L.P.Private equity77 investors$537M
- Mesirow Financial Real Estate Value Fund V, L.P.Real estate18 investors$532M
- Mesirow Financial Private Equity Fund VIII-B, L.P.Private equity85 investors$497M
- Mesirow Financial Private Equity Partnership Fund V, L.P.Private equity50 investors$395M
- Mesirow Financial Private Equity Special Fund B, L.P.Private equity2 investors$314M
And 21 more on the filing.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
VendavoBought by Francisco PartnersUndisclosedOct 2014
CoradiantBought by BMC SoftwareUndisclosedApr 2011
Accompany-ME TechnologyBought by Antenna SoftwareUndisclosedJun 2009
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.