Nuveen
333 W Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, 60606, United States
Overview
Nuveen, a TIAA company is a Chicago based private company in the asset management industry. Nuveen, a TIAA company was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1898 and was previously named The John Nuveen Co., after founder John Nuveen
- Total investments
- 27
- Lead investments
- 16
- Investments · 12mo
- 7
- Active investors
- 11
Sector focus
- Financial Services
Investment portfolio
- RockRose Risk
Participated · Series A · Aug 2026
RockRose Risk combines wildfire risk assessment, mitigation partnerships, and proprietary automation technology to secure premium reductions for clients. Founded by Andrew Engler, the company has built a commercial business serving HOAs, hotel groups, wineries, farms, strip malls, municipalities, and real estate portfolios across California, Colorado, and Nevada and recently expanded into California homeowners insurance. It developed Rosebud™, an autonomous property assessment rover, and is positioning itself as a vertically integrated risk manager by planning acquisitions of mitigation service providers such as tree trimming and roofing companies. The company’s mitigation-first underwriting ties verified mitigation work to insurance outcomes to help move properties back into the admitted market. RockRose raised a $12.5 million Series A to scale these efforts and broaden its vertically integrated platform.
- Spearmint Energy
Participated · Debt Financing · Jun 2026
Spearmint Energy develops and operates large-scale battery storage projects aimed at delivering stable, resilient and affordable power to the grid. The company’s operating portfolio includes projects such as Tierra Seca, Seven Flags and Revolution, and it maintains a broader development pipeline across the United States. Spearmint recently strengthened its balance sheet via a $325 million expanded debt facility to advance operating assets and fund strategic growth initiatives. Leadership highlights include founder, president and CEO Andrew Waranch, who framed the financing as growth capital to accelerate deployment and optimization of battery storage. Lenders participating in the facility cited the growing importance of battery storage within the nation’s energy infrastructure and their support for Spearmint’s asset quality and growth strategy.
- Budderfly
Led · Debt Financing · Jun 2026
Budderfly provides turnkey energy infrastructure and Energy-as-a-Service solutions, installing, monitoring, and managing equipment upgrades and proprietary energy software across HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, controls, and water technologies. The company delivers projects under long-term service agreements that preserve customer capital while generating predictable, long-term cash flows and measurable cost and emissions reductions. Budderfly serves industries including restaurants, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing and reports helping customers avoid more than 330,000 metric tons of carbon emissions to date. Financially, Budderfly achieved positive EBITDA in 2025 and has secured more than $1.1 billion in total capital access across equity, corporate debt, and project financing. The company has expanded project debt facilities to $550 million and recently closed a corporate debt facility expansion with Nuveen EIC; Nuveen’s cumulative commitment exceeds $300 million. Budderfly is headquartered in Shelton, Conn., and has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for five consecutive years, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 from 2023–2025, and received multiple accolades from Fast Company and TIME.
- Crux
Led · Debt Financing · May 2026
Crux operates a finance platform focused on tax-driven investments and broader financing solutions—including debt, preferred equity, and tax equity—for clean and critical infrastructure. The company deploys hybrid partnership flip structures to monetize tax credits and reports hybrid tax equity now represents more than 75% of tax equity investments in its market data. Since launching its tax and preferred equity offering, Crux says it has executed more than $1 billion in signed term sheets and issued more than $9 billion in indications of interest. Publicly announced transactions include a $340 million tax equity investment supporting a 413 MWdc utility-scale solar project in Texas. Crux describes itself as using market-leading data and an AI-powered platform to underwrite and execute deals across a diversified pipeline. The $500 million facility from Nuveen EIC is intended to scale Crux’s ability to act as a general partner and accelerate clean energy deployment amid rising electricity demand.
- EverWind
Led · Equity · Mar 2026
EverWind is a company headquartered in Nova Scotia. According to BNN Bloomberg, the firm has just secured a sizable $240 million investment from Nuveen. The article does not provide any detail on the company’s specific products, services, or industry focus. Nonetheless, the magnitude of the financing indicates that EverWind is pursuing a capital-intensive growth strategy. No revenue figures, customer metrics, or other operating data were disclosed. The report likewise omits information on founding year, employee count, or prior funding history.