M25 Group is a microventure capital firm in Illinois that focuses on investing in startups. Founded 2015 in Chicago, Illinois, United States by Brent Gutwein, Doug Drury, Stuart Gutwein, and Victor Gutwein, it invests in early stage ventures, seed, series A, series B, and convertible notes. Its portfolio companies include Rheaply, OpsCompass, Civic Eagle,Ripple Science, and Winston Privacy. As of March 2020, M25 has made 100 investments. Their most recent investment was on March 17, 2020, when Rheaply raised $2.5M. M25 has had five exits, the most notable exits include Regroup Therapy, Costello, and Mimir. M25 has raised three funds, their latest being M25 Fund III.
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Funded Companies
A blockchain company offering a platform for making alternative investments.
Branch Messenger is a Minneapolis-based company founded by Atif Siddiqi.
Rentgrata is a Chicago-based company founded in 2016 by Ben Margolit, Sam McArtor and Zachary Sloan.
Idelic integrates all fleet data systems into an industry leading driver watch list so fleets can identify at-risk drivers and prevent accidents.
Astronomer helps organizations adopt Apache Airflow, an open-source data workflow orchestration platform that helps organizations get their data in motion..
CASHDROP is a Chicago-based startup building a mobile-first contactless e-commerce platform which is free to use for merchants. The company generates revenue by taking a small convenience fee on the consumer side of the transaction.
A company that participated in the F1 cohort of Y Combinator. It designs and develops a software automating sleep data analysis with the use of machine learning for sleep clinics
ExplORer is an interactive surgical playbook that promotes optimal teamwork in the operating room.
People
Brent Gutwein
Board member
Doug Drury
Board member
Katherine Schulman
Employee
Paul Meier
Employee
Stuart Gutwein
Partner
Victor Gutwein
Board member
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Ripple Science
Civic Eagle
DataCubes
Loop
OpsCompass
Rheaply
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Contributors
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Lax Mariappan
Technopreneur, Open source enthusiast, author, speaker. Co-founder of Eternus Global. Crafting applications for the medical industry. - 2
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 3
Reys Phillips
A graduate of Cleveland State University with a Bachelor of Science in Education. My main hobbies include story writing and reading. - 4
Aime Anne Nisay
QA Engineer of web and mobile applications