Gateway Venture Mentoring Service (GVMS) is an entrepreneur support organization (ESO) whose primary goal is to facilitate a ... successful environment for entrepreneurship in the Greater St. Louis region. Gateway Venture Mentoring Services (GVMS) helps early-stage entrepreneurs move forward in their journey. Our mentoring service provides entrepreneurs with access to an array of serial entrepreneurs, business and service professionals who work closely with the individual or team to strengthen their venture and help accelerate their growth. Our ESO referral services helps ventures take advantage of our broad understanding of resources within the Saint Louis entrepreneurial ecosystem. GVMS was brought to St. Louis by way of the VMS program @ MIT in Boston. In 2007, Innovate VMS, now Gateway VMS was created as the first affiliate of the team mentoring program recognized by the Kaufmann Foundation for its best practices in mentoring. read more