David Gutelius

C̶E̶O̶,̶ ̶I̶n̶v̶e̶s̶t̶o̶r̶,̶ ̶A̶d̶v̶i̶s̶o̶r̶ Here to serve. Growth * AI * Exits

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Member, Investor, Advisor
Jan 2018
Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with a diverse talent and capital pipeline and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within private boards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology, to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.
Advisor, Investor
Jun 2015
A-Level Capital is a top performing student-run venture firm investing in and supporting the best startups in the Hopkins talent and research ecosystem.
Experience · 12 entries
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2022
Advisor
Jun 2022
Village Capital is reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Known for its groundbreaking approaches to supporting founders who are building solutions to emergent social, economic, and environmental challenges, VilCap unlocks critical social and financial capital for early-stage companies to maximize business and impact growth. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported over 1,400 startups that have raised over $5 billion in investment capital. It has made more than 150 investments through its various affiliated funds, including Vilcap Investments, which has invested in 110 peer-selected companies. Over 20,000 entrepreneurs have improved their investment readiness through its network of entrepreneur support organizations and its platform, Abaca.
2018
Member, Investor, Advisor
Jan 2018
Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with a diverse talent and capital pipeline and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within private boards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology, to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.
2016
Co Founder, CEO
Jan 2016
Motiva powers a new kind of customer-centric engagement for modern marketers everywhere. We use AI to generate content and create adaptive marketing automation, giving marketing teams better performing campaigns - automatically. Our mission is bringing people together through conversation. Whether B2B or B2C communications, Motiva AI supports the creation of personalized customer experiences that lead to results. We combine deep experience in artificial intelligence, analytics, and large scale data mining together with beautiful design to create a new class of product for marketing and customer engagement. Motivas custom, proprietary machine learning platform sets a new standard of performance in AI. We use cutting-edge machine learning to automatically tune marketing campaigns to audiences, finding new, engaged audience populations. By listening carefully to - and learning from - customer behavior, Motiva helps marketing teams achieve more with less, and makes the entire marketing operation more effective.
2015
Advisor, Investor
Jun 2015
A-Level Capital is a top performing student-run venture firm investing in and supporting the best startups in the Hopkins talent and research ecosystem.
2014
Technology Vision External Advisory Board Member
May 2014
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone elses copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.
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2010–2018 · 3 investments
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