# Varadero Capital > Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-11-07. - **Brand record:** https://optimly.ai/brand/varadero-capital - **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/varadero-capital.json - **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/varadero-capital/llms.txt - **Official website:** https://varaderocapital.com - **Slug:** varadero-capital - **Categories:** fintech-financial-services ## Overview - **Tagline:** Varadero Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on diverse asset-based finance opportunities across public and private markets. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Description:** Varadero Capital manages three asset-based finance strategies focused on U.S. and European opportunities: Real Estate, Asset-Backed, and Corporate Credit. The firm uses dynamic capital allocation, proprietary technology, data-intensive underwriting, stress testing, and sophisticated structuring to pursue risk-adjusted returns and resilient strategies. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 ## Identity - **Mission:** To protect and compound capital by identifying, diligencing, structuring, and managing asset-based finance investments with large margins of safety. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Founders & leadership:** Fernando Guerrero — Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer; Jonah Lansky — Co-Founder, President and Deputy Chief Investment Officer; Jonathan Mizrachi and Vishesh Prabhakar — Co-Heads of Commercial Real Estate; Chris Wilcox — Head of Specialty Finance; Frank Enos — Head of European NPLs; Suraj Tamboli — Chief Technology Officer; Peter Chan — Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer; Rory Cohen — General Counsel and Asset Management; Richard Knight — Head of Business Development and Investor Relations; Zubin Alemo — Chief Risk Officer; Li-Fen Yip — Chief Compliance Officer. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Website:** https://varaderocapital.com Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Voice & tone:** Professional, analytical, disciplined, risk-aware, and purpose-driven, with an emphasis on responsibility, transparency, collaboration, and humility. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Founded:** 2009 Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Headquarters:** 66 Hudson Blvd E, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10001, United States Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 ## Offerings - **Problem solved:** Varadero Capital addresses the challenge of investing in complex, overlooked, and attractively valued asset-based finance opportunities while managing downside risk, liquidity needs, and portfolio diversification. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Core capabilities:** - Dynamic capital allocation between public and private markets - Asset-based finance investing - Fundamental and quantitative analysis - Data-intensive underwriting - Extreme downside stress testing - Sophisticated investment structuring - Programmatic hedging - Proprietary technology for identifying, diligencing, and managing investments Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Products / SKUs:** - Real Estate strategy: investments backed by commercial real estate credit, including CMBS, CRE CLO, SASB, and whole loans - Asset-Backed strategy: structured credit and flexible funding solutions across consumer finance, SME lending, renewable energy, auto finance, and non-performing - Corporate Credit strategy: opportunistic investments in corporate credit CLOs across the capital stack Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 ## Audience - **Target industry:** Alternative investments, asset-based finance, structured credit, commercial real estate credit, specialty finance, and corporate credit. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Customer base:** Investors seeking exposure to U.S. and European asset-based finance strategies that can be combined to address liquidity and diversification needs. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Ideal customer profile:** Institutional or otherwise qualified investors seeking alternative investment strategies in commercial real estate credit, asset-backed finance, non-performing loans, and corporate credit CLOs, with a focus on risk management, liquidity, and diversification. Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Use cases:** - Investing in commercial real estate credit securities and loans - Providing or accessing structured funding solutions in specialty finance markets - Investing in consumer finance, SME lending, auto finance, and renewable energy opportunities - Participating selectively in non-performing loan portfolios - Investing opportunistically across the capital stack of corporate credit CLOs - Combining asset-based finance strategies to meet investor liquidity and diversification needs Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 - **Customer outcomes:** - Potentially improved risk-adjusted returns through dynamic capital allocation and sophisticated structuring - Capital protection and compounding objectives supported by downside stress testing and margins of safety - Access to diverse U.S. and European asset-based finance opportunities - Portfolio liquidity and diversification tailored through combinations of the firm's strategies Source: Brand's website (https://varaderocapital.com) · 2026-11-07 Page last updated 2026-11-07. ## Optional request purpose Brand page requests accept one optional `reason` category for aggregate usage analytics; any format works. 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