Current Firm
Gateway Capital Partners
Focus
AI, Digital Health
Dana Guthrie became the first Black woman in Wisconsin to raise an institutional venture capital fund, closing approximately $13–13.5M for Gateway Capital focused on the Milwaukee area after spending 12–13 years as a software engineer and product leader at Johnson Controls. She invests with an explicitly transparent style, sharing her actual spreadsheets and assumptions with founders to demystify venture math, while using a Money for Minnows strategy that spreads early capital across diverse technologies rather than concentrating in a single vertical.
Dana Guthrie is a Managing Partner and Director, Gateway Capital Partners at Gateway Capital Partners, based in St. Louis, MO.
Dana's investment focus spans AI, Digital Health, Enterprise, SaaS, primarily investing at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+ stages. This specialization allows for deep domain knowledge and strong network effects that benefit portfolio companies.
Dana Guthrie is a Managing Partner and Director, Gateway Capital Partners at Gateway Capital Partners, based in St. Louis, MO. Their investment focus includes AI, Digital Health, Enterprise.
Dana Guthrie focuses on investments in AI, Digital Health, Enterprise, SaaS through Gateway Capital Partners. These focus areas reflect their domain expertise and the types of startups they actively seek to back.
Dana Guthrie is currently at Gateway Capital Partners, headquartered in St. Louis, MO, serving as Managing Partner and Director, Gateway Capital Partners.