Gateway X · St. Louis
Everything you need during your residency - the space, the people, and how to put us to work.
Start here
One place for the answers you reach for most: how to get into the space, who does what, how to grab time with the team, and where to book a room. Bookmark it, skim once, and come back when you need an answer.
Who we are
Gateway X is home to a founder community, a venture studio, and a venture firm, all in one place in St. Louis. We start companies from scratch and back founders at the earliest stage, alongside people who've done it before.
Don't change the world, change your world.
Current cohort
Who else is in the building right now. Find each other, compare notes, and say hi. Every member also has a partner pod: a dedicated Gateway X partner as your guide and first point of contact, here to serve, unblock, and coach.
What we expect
The residency gives you what you make of it. In return, we ask for four things.
A firm commitment to yourself: show up with integrity, hustle, and rigor to find your life's work. We're energized by people who do what they say and don't let anything get in their way.
Come into the office 4+ days a week, best effort. Not a hard rule; the point is to bring your energy and ambition to the space and help us build the best founder community in the Midwest.
Actively participate in the community. Help the other founders and folks in the space when they need it.
Use us as thought partners for your business and your own growth. We want you to win.
Your partners
The three Gateway X partners you'll work with directly. Put us to work - pull us into whatever you need, whenever you need it.
Storytelling, commercial instinct, fundraising, pace. A visionary force-multiplier who turns "impossible" into momentum.
GTM, product, ops, and anything you need during the residency. The connector who brings order to chaos.
Our team
The people who keep things moving and can help you get what you need.
Operations associate, based in the Philippines.
In the network
Operators building within Gateway X's studio who can share their experiences building with us first-hand.
$0-$20M+ ARR. Ask her what it's like to work with us.
Host of The Next New Thing podcast. Austin-based.
Put us to work
The goal is simple: 1 + 1 = 3. You bring the vision and the reps; we bring pattern-matching, the network, and shortcuts, so you move faster than you could alone. Pull us in to workshop, strategize, or knock out a specific ask. What we won't do is run your business for you.
Quick answers and tactical help to get unblocked, or to find the right thing to focus on.
A sounding board for the hard calls, with people who've made them.
Our network, playbooks, templates, and intros that save you months.
What we help with, and who to pull in
Sales, booking meetings, decks, negotiations, marketing and creative, customer success and expansion.
Prototypes, roadmaps, spec templates, technical tooling, automation, analytics, domain and website setup.
Sourcing, interviewing, closing, comp, role scoping, onboarding, coaching, and performance.
Collaboration and operational systems (Notion, Slack, CRM), planning cycles, meeting cadence, and sprints.
Finance setup, insurance, spend management, formation docs, contract and offer templates, benefits.
Leadership, culture, the tough calls, and a thinking partner when you need one.
Where we stay out. We meet with founders freely to workshop, strategize, or act on a request. Think of us as bridge builders helping you find your way out of the maze, not living the day to day with you in the maze. As a result, we generally stay out of your external customer calls and internal team/employee meetings - those are yours to run.
What to expect by stage
We move at your pace, and we're open to you pushing us. We're here to help you find the right mountain to climb and hit your goals coming out of the residency: validating ideas, running test sprints, and intros to potential buyers, design partners, or cofounders.
We get more hands-on and dive deeper into the areas of your business that need momentum - building pipeline, running sales meetings, creating a killer demo, recruiting, and more.
Book office hours
Collab on Slack
Ad hoc, anytime. Text or Slack any of us when you need a sounding board.
The space
Your desk is here - grab one and settle in. The Central West End office is yours to use during the residency.
Reserve a room for calls, customer discovery, or heads-down sessions.
Central West End
Our regular spots near the office, plus a few St. Louis staples.
Confirm hours before you go.
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