M25
m25vc.com Direct investor
M25 is an early-stage venture firm based in Chicago that invests exclusively in tech startups headquartered in the Midwest. It focuses on pre-seed and seed stage companies across sectors like finance, healthcare IT, horizontal SaaS, and supply chain.
M25 is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chicago, United States, founded in 2015. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in finance & Insurance, healthcare IT, horizontal SaaS and supply Chain & Industrial. 150 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“M25 is an early-stage venture firm based in Chicago, investing exclusively in tech startups headquartered in the Midwest.”
— M25, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- Midwest
- Sectors
- Finance & Insurance, Healthcare IT, Horizontal SaaS, Supply Chain & Industrial
- Founded
- 2015
- Portfolio
- 150 companies
Team, as M25 publishes it
- Victor Gutwein Managing Partner
- Mike Asem Founding Partner
- Abhinaya Konduru Partner
- Arianna Thornton Director of Operations
- Ruth Brungard Platform Associate
- Ryan Coon Venture Partner
- Guy Friedman Venture Partner
- Jonathan Poma Venture Partner
- Brian Powers Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on m25vc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 51 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Connetic Ventures 9 shared companies: 86repairs.com, pavewisepro.com, whipz.com, quiverquant.com…
- Hyde Park Angels 5 shared companies: rheaply.com, moonnox.com, stagetimearts.com, blumira.com…
- Elevate Ventures 4 shared companies: authenticx.com, travasecurity.com, titlewise.work, goelate.com
- High Alpha 3 shared companies: authenticx.com, rheaply.com, travasecurity.com
- Bread And Butter Ventures, LLC 3 shared companies: itilitihealth.com, pluralpolicy.com, rentgrata.com
- Run Ventures 2 shared companies: authenticx.com, gocontinuum.ai
- Clocktower Technology Ventures 2 shared companies: gocontinuum.ai, getvigil.com
- Matchstick Ventures 2 shared companies: entravia.co, improovy.com
- Tech Square Ventures 2 shared companies: rheaply.com, pluralpolicy.com
- Flare Capital Partners 2 shared companies: tandemstride.com, axuall.com
and 41 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page M25 publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.m25vc.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.m25vc.com/teampeople
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Record 1389 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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