The Burlington Telecom Innovation Fund was created from our acquisition of Burlington Telecom in conjunction with the City of Burlington, VT.
Our commitment is to invest annual dollars over ten years in local startup and growth companies with great entrepreneurs and founders, while meeting the fund’s social goals. Our second fund, the NKTelco Innovation Fund will follow this blueprint for western OH, and we look forward to our first investment in 2022.

Chris Dautel
VP, Strategic Planning and Corporate Development

Minority Investments

Schurz will make focused, opportunistic minority investments where we see an adjacency to our current businesses, where we see an opportunity to learn, and where we can advance the objectives and initiatives of our core businesses.

Chris Dautel
VP, Strategic Planning and Corporate Development

Investment Funds

We like investing in funds because it gives us an opportunity to learn about all of the portfolio companies that each fund invests in, and we choose fund themes based on our underlying businesses, and our long term diversification strategy.

Chris Dautel
VP, Strategic Planning and Corporate Development

Allos III
Heartland Fund 1
Heartland Fund 2
WSC Fund 1
WSC Fund 2
Data Realty
Data Focus Fund
CORI Fund
Flywheel Fund 2

Innovation Awards

We invest in the entrepreneurs and founders in our academic and local communities to support their efforts at growth, job creation, and in turn gain knowledge and community return as they succeed.

Chris Dautel
VP, Strategic Planning and Corporate Development