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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 51 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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