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Milwaukee VC Backs Local Startup That’s Helping Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers

Two founders dedicated to giving people a leg up just received one of their own. It was recently reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Eli Rivera and Ruben Gaona, co-founders of 

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Gateway Capital’s Dana Guthrie Named 2023 Milwaukee Powerbroker 

Potawatomi Hotel & Casino CEO Dominic Ortiz, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Milwaukee World Festival president Sarah Smith Pancheri are among the executives who are new to the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2023 Power Brokers list. Check out the slideshow below to see the 100 Milwaukee-area power brokers who are many of the key movers and shakers in southeastern Wisconsin's business community.…

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Dana Guthrie Named One of WI’s 2022 Most Influential Business Leaders

Dana Guthrie is managing partner at Gateway Capital, a Milwaukee-based venture capital fund dedicated to investing in pre-revenue startups. A software engineer by training, Guthrie raised $13.5 million within eight months, and the fund began making investments in startups last year. Health data technology startup Geno.Me recently launched its data exchange platform and relocated from Madison…

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Gateway Invests in Racine-based Startup That Turns Short-term Rentals Into Shoppable Showrooms

A Racine startup that seeks to make short-term rentals a real-life marketplace has now been backed by Milwaukee-based venture capital firm 

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Inaugural VCMKE Launches

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Dana Guthrie, managing partner at Gateway Capital. Credit: Jake Hill

Community Leader of the Year

The statistics hardly need to be rehashed at this point. It’s well documented that Wisconsin has routinely found itself toward the bottom of lists ranking venture capital activity nationally.  In recent years, various efforts have taken aim at that problem in hopes of increasing the flow of VC dollars to the state.  A couple of years…

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Biotech Startup, Geno.Me Raises Seed Round From Gateway Capital

Madison-based biotech startup Geno.Me plans to relocate its operations to Milwaukee after receiving $400,000 in seed funding from Milwaukee-based venture capital firm Gateway Capital Partners. Founded by Milwaukee-native Britt Gottschalk, Geno.Me links genomic and electronic health record data in an open marketplace, which allows medical researchers to more easily access data and patients to have more…

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Tip A ScRxipt Raises $500k Seed Round

Gateway Capital Partners, a Milwaukee-based venture capital firm managed by Dana Guthrie, has made its first investment of $400,000 in Tip a ScRxipt. Tip a ScRxipt, a startup launched by Milwaukee-native Chad Johnson, also raised an additional $100,000 in seed funding from gener8tor, a nationally ranked accelerator.This marks Gateway Capital’s first investment after closing an…

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Gateway Capital Closes Oversubscribed $13.5M First Fund

Dana Guthrie, fund manager for Gateway Capital, has raised $13.5 million less than a year after she began raising capital for the Milwaukee-based venture fund. Guthrie, who has more than a decade of experience as a software engineer and product manager, also has significant support for her fund in the insurance giant Northwestern Mutual. Guthrie’s…

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Dana Guthrie’s Milwaukee VC fund raises $6.25 million in four months

The Milwaukee-based Gateway Capital fund raised $6.25 million, four months after fund manager Dana Guthrie began raising capital for the venture fund. See Full Article:

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