Gale Wilkinson is the founder and managing partner of VITALIZE Venture Capital, an early-stage fund and angel community investing in WorkTech software. She founded IrishAngels in 2012, an angel network affiliated with Notre Dame that she led for nearly a decade, and has taught early-stage investing as an adjunct instructor at Notre Dame. VITALIZE writes $50-150K checks at pre-seed and $250-750K at seed, and she now focuses on its existing portfolio after deciding in 2026 not to raise another fund. Earlier in her career she worked in strategy at Orbitz and in sales forecasting at Nielsen.