David Rasch

David Rasch is listed by MuniBase as a Managing Director at Stern Brothers & Co. in Chicago, Illinois. The Better Business Bureau’s Chicago profile for Stern Brothers & Co. lists “Mr. Dave Rasch” as business management, principal contact, and customer contact for the Chicago office at 222 W. Huron St.

Stern Brothers & Co. is an independent, privately held investment bank founded in 1917 and headquartered in St. Louis. The firm describes itself as a certified woman-owned business enterprise and one of the few remaining independent private underwriters and broker-dealers in the country. Its work centers on underwriting, private placement, financial advisory, credit enhancement, remarketing, municipal finance, corporate finance, and sales and trading.

I did not find a reliable public biography, education history, direct LinkedIn profile, headshot, or personal investment record for the David Rasch associated with Stern Brothers. The available public record supports a profile as an investment-banking/public-finance professional, not as a verified angel or seed-stage venture investor.

• No independently verifiable personal angel-investing thesis or seed-stage portfolio was found for David Rasch.
• Stern Brothers’ stated approach is capital-markets and debt-financing oriented. The firm says it advises “public and private decision makers on the best ways to fund capital projects” and recommends financing structures “on a case by case basis.”
• Stern Brothers’ municipal finance page says it provides long-term financing to “corporations, municipalities, private companies and non-profit organizations across America,” especially infrastructure and industrial projects whose financing is based on projected project cash flows rather than borrower balance sheets.
• The firm’s corporate finance platform covers underwriting and distribution of corporate bonds, agency securities, preferred stocks, hybrids, and asset-backed securities, with coverage across agencies, autos, financials, healthcare, industrials, TMT, and utilities.
• Stern Brothers reports strong experience in fixed-rate and variable-rate municipal transactions, private placements, project/facilities/asset-based financings, and sectors including housing, healthcare, higher education, infrastructure, real estate, and industrial development finance.