Victor Gutwein

Founder & Managing Partner, M25 · 4 appearances on the record.

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Gutwein founded Chicago-based venture capital firm M25 in 2015, focusing on Midwest tech startups. He has backed over 100 startups across the region and regularly appears as an investor judge on The Pitch.

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Opinion

Gutwein: DTC Has Not Figured Out How to Scale Post-Adpocalypse

“I think that overall DTC as an industry has not figured out how to scale like the new channels now that they can't spend VC dollars on Facebook and Google spend.”

Victor Gutwein Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 18:23 #109 Modern Picnic: Surviving the Adpocalypse

Opinion

Gutwein: Modern Picnic Is Too Niche to Become a Billion-Dollar Brand

“But I also worry about the long, like the long plan for market size, just because this feels more niche than what I've seen from other brands that have gotten to that kind of billion dollar mark. I think the archetypes, I think are a little too narrow for me t…”

Victor Gutwein Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 19:01 #109 Modern Picnic: Surviving the Adpocalypse

Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2028

Gutwein: Modern Picnic will sell for $50 million in two to three years

“Two or three years, she sells this for fifty million to, and then she's on to her next thing.”

Victor Gutwein Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 25:26 #109 Modern Picnic: Surviving the Adpocalypse

Disclosure

Victor Gutwein passes on The Pitch citing lack of unicorn comps

“As a venture capitalist, I don't really get excited about the potential for the more ad and subscription based revenue streams because I just haven't seen a lot of comps that have done really well. As far as, like, unicorn potential, which is, like, really whi…”

Victor Gutwein Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 39:25 #101 Josh Pitches The Pitch

Appearances (4)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#113 HILOS: Is This The Perfect Business?	Mar 4, 2025	1m
#112 Natrion: The Holy Grail of Battery Tech	Mar 4, 2025	34s
#109 Modern Picnic: Surviving the Adpocalypse	Mar 4, 2025	2m
#101 Josh Pitches The Pitch	Mar 4, 2025	3m

Victor Gutwein

Appearances (4)

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