A24 was seeded by a $300 billion Guggenheim investment firm

Evidence

In 1847, Meyer Guggenheim arrived in the United States and began a family mining business that would eventually amass one of the largest fortunes in the world and shape the planet’s supply chain of resources well into the twentieth century. In 1918, Forbes recognized the Guggenheims as the second richest family in the United States. Tin from Bolivia, diamonds from Angola, copper from Chile, and rubber from what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo were key to the political economy of the time. Today, financial capital and philanthropy play the same role, which is why Solomon Guggenheim shifted to collecting art and opening museums, while other descendants of the Guggenheim fortune now operate two global investment and financial services firms, Guggenheim Capital and Guggenheim Partners. The latter manages over $300 billion in assets, which includes the seed money that began A24 in 2012. One of A24’s cofounders was Daniel Katz, whose former role was head of the film finance group at Guggenheim Partners. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Core of the reader’s tracing project: connects a specific indie studio to a specific financial-services parent, exactly the Wall Street-to-artifact chain sought.
• SEED: Article angle: the colonial resource-extraction roots of ‘artist-friendly’ indie cinema — the Guggenheim mining-to-A24 pipeline.
• SHARE: The specific detail that A24 was seeded by Guggenheim Partners with Daniel Katz formerly head of its film finance group would land with a cinephile finance friend.