Floodgate - Your First True Believers Your first true believers Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies
Iris Choi - Floodgate Fund I had a career in investment banking before Floodgate, and spent over a decade advising large technology and media companies on financings, mergers and corporate strategy
Companies - Floodgate Over the last decade, Floodgate has invested in hundreds of companies including Lyft, Okta, Outreach, Twitter, and more
Floodgate Mike Heller is a partner at Floodgate He believes AI will dramatically shift how organizations (and the world) operate and he invests in founders focused on building for this uncertain future
Mike Maples, Jr. - Floodgate Fund There was a chance to create a new type of venture firm, so Floodgate was born as one of the very first seed funds I will always be grateful that some of the very best founders gave me the chance to be an investor and co-conspirator
Team - Floodgate Meet Mike Maples Jr , Ann Miura-Ko and the Floodgate Fund Team Learn more about how they invest in seed and early-stage investments
Pattern Breaking Startup Ideas - floodgate. com Yet I had noticed that more than 85% of Floodgate’s exit profits came from “pivots” – namely startups that started with one idea and then ended up course-correcting to something very different And it’s not as if all these wildly successful startups followed the established best practices
Ann Miura-Ko - Floodgate Fund In my first year starting Floodgate, I gave birth to my second child, defended my PhD thesis 6 weeks later and was on my way to making my first investment in TaskRabbit I know I can do hard things and I can help others do the same
Arjun Chopra - Floodgate Fund What I love about Floodgate is that everyone is in service to the entrepreneur It’s humbling to see the founder's visions and it’s exhilarating to help them grow We are blessed to live in a time where all we need is a laptop and an internet connection to have a chance to change the world
Floodgate Sam is an Associate at Floodgate and Chief of Staff to Mike Maples Jr He earned his MS and BS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, followed by an MS in Advanced Energy Systems at the Colorado School of Mines