Swifte Investing

Swifte makes investments in great teams with a clear vision for the success of their business in markets that offer room to grow.

Swifte’s management team uses their extensive business experience to help their portfolio companies’ boards and management teams accelerate growth and profitability to create new value for their owners and employees.

About

Kurt Brungardt is the Managing Partner at Swifte,

a private equity firm that he founded in 2015. Swifte invests equity capital in small and medium sized businesses with revenues of $10mm - $100mm. Swifte’s fundamental mandate is to help portfolio company owners, board, and management teams accelerate growth, increase profitability and create new value for both owners and employees.

Mr. Brungardt is a founder and the Chief Operating Officer for Central Shore Holdings, where he is responsible for business operations, organizational design and building processes, teams and technology to support its continued rapid growth.

Prior to Central Shore Holdings, Kurt served as the Chief Information Officer and a Managing Director for 15 years at MSD Capital, L.P., the New York-based private investment firm managing Michael Dell and his family’s fortune. During this time, Kurt worked with both investment and operations teams to enable MSD Capital’s growth to $15 billion in assets under management.
Dell acquired three strategic technology companies as a result of Kurt’s recommendations to Michael Dell.

Prior to MSD Capital, Mr. Brungardt spent 12 years in business operations and project roles at Digital Power Networks and General Dynamics Electric Boat Division.

Mr. Brungardt is a mentor for Columbia University's Executive Master of Science in Technology Management Program and a member of the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering “Driven.” campaign committee.

Mr. Brungardt holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, College of Science and Engineering and continues to study the fundamentals of business, entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership with the Aji Network.