Investors & Partners at Gateway Capital Partners

Dana Guthrie

Managing Partner and Director, Gateway Capital Partners

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.