Gateway Data Ventures — Seed VC Firm ($1.2M–$3.5M Checks)
Gateway Data Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL investing in Developer Tools, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $1.2M–$3.5M checks and has 1 portfolio company in our records.
- Check size
- $1.2M–$3.5M
- Portfolio
- 1 company on record
- Partners
- 10 listed
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- Developer Tools, Enterprise
- HQ
- Chicago, IL
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-01
Seed
$1.2M – $3.5M
1+ companies
10 partners
Investment Thesis
Specializes in funding scalable data infrastructure startups driving enterprise software innovations.
How Gateway Data Ventures invests
Gateway Data Ventures is a vc firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Developer Tools, Enterprise. It does not invest in Consumer.
Gateway Data Ventures typically writes checks of $1.2M–$3.5M per investment.
Gateway Data Ventures has backed 1 company in our records, including DataForward.
Partners & Team
Nurhan Kocaoglu
Program Director
Lauren Eby
Program Manager
Oliver Wang
Partner
Vanessa Goas
Chief Operating Officer
Andrea Ulrich
Deputy Director of Programs
Tom Orrell
Deputy Director
Diego Dimunzio
Principal Consultant
Fernando Ferreyra
Director of Software Development
Mihai Postelnicu
Deputy Director of Software Development
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (1)
Other
DataForward
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.2M – $3.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Josh Powell, Chief Executive Officer.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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