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What does Wells Fargo invest in?
Wells Fargo invests most often at Debt and Grant (68% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Big Data & Analytics, Biotechnology and CloudTech.
Wells Fargo highlights
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16 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Debt and Grant: 68% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 23 rounds, median $40M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Committed to the financial health of our customers and communities. Explore bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investing, credit cards & banking servicesFrom their own website
- Type
- Corporate VC (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- Big Data & AnalyticsBiotechnologyCloudTech
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first107 appearances
- 2026
14 rounds
- Sept
- May
- May
- May
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
24 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- 2024
15 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
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
ATAdam TabackOfficer of Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management, LLC, Investment Adviser and DirectoriFiling they signed
AJAlan J. AdelmanOfficer of Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management, LLC, the Managing MemberiFiling they signed
AAAmru A. KhanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
BSBarry SommersChief Executive Officer / Board of ManagersiForm ADV
CGChristos G TsamadiasChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
DJDaniel J. RauchleOfficer of Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management, LLC, Managing MemberiFiling they signed
DCDarrell CronkHead of Investment Solutions / Wim Chief Investment Officer / Board of Managers / Control PrincipaliForm ADV
DFDavid Franz MarkmannDesignated Texas OfficeriForm ADV
DWDavid Ward SaundersDesignated State PrincipaliForm ADV
DADean Allen JunkansOfficer of Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management, LLC, Managing MemberiFiling they signed
DSDennis SchmalDirectoriFiling they signed
DLDoreta L. DuneganOfficer of Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management, LLC, Managing MemberiFiling they signed
DLDoretta L. DuneganOfficer of Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management, LLC, Managing MemberiFiling they signed
EJEileen J. AldenOfficer of Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management, LLC, Managing MemberiFiling they signed
EAErik Anthony KaranikChief Executive Officer / Board of ManagersiForm ADV
FWFrederick W. WahlOfficer of Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management, LLC, the Managing MemberiFiling they signed
JDJ. David GermanyExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
JJJames J CravenBoard of ManagersiForm ADV
JRJohn R TyersPresident/Board of Managers/Control PrincipaliForm ADV
JFJon F. BarankoExecutive Officer, DirectoriFiling they signed
KLKaren L. NortonExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
KCKimberly Crowder TaBoard of Managers/Control PrincipaliForm ADV
KDKirk D. HartmanExecutive Officer, DirectoriFiling they signed
MSMai S. ShiverExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 184 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
$924Bassets it manages, 2 advisers combinedOct 2026
5+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 11025
Funds they back
1 fund commitment on record
- Managers
- 1
Every fund on record that it has committed money to, and the managers who invest it.Source: fund news.
Managers it backs most
Most recent commitments
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
2 of 14 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
CDC SoftwareBought by ApteanUndisclosedAug 2012
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.