Floodgate

Venture Capital
115investments
16exits
$225.4Mraised by its portfolio in 12 months
3,616open roles in its portfolio

Overview

Floodgate is a seed-stage venture capital firm that aims to be the first true believer in technology startups. It makes early investments in software, consumer internet and frontier technology, and its partners were early backers of companies such as Twitter, Lyft, Twitch and Okta. The firm was founded in 2006 by Mike Maples and later joined by Ann Miura-Ko, and it is based in Palo Alto, California.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
115
63 of them startups
Hiring now
55
3,616 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
6
$225.4M raised
Exits
16
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 28%Software 23%Internet Services 10%Sales & Marketing 8%Data & Analytics 7%Cybersecurity 7%Education 6%Commerce 6%
Where its companies are
United States 55%Israel 2%United Kingdom 2%Singapore 1%Germany 1%France 1%Colombia 1%Indonesia 1%
Stage of its companies
Series A 41%Series C and later 31%Series B 16%Pre-seed & seed 12%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 115 investments
Hand RaiseVenture round $4.5M · 2 mo ago EmotiveVenture round $250k · 4 mo ago TetraScienceVenture round $15M · 8 mo ago · 17 roles FieldguideVenture round $75M · 9 mo ago · 37 roles EfexVenture round $10.6M · 10 mo ago HarmonicVenture round $120M · 11 mo ago · 8 roles OnticSeries C $230M · 14 mo ago · 15 roles HadrianSeries C $260M · 15 mo ago · 165 roles AirGarageSeries B $23M · 16 mo ago · 23 roles Applied IntuitionVenture round $600M · 16 mo ago · 298 roles ReplenyshSeries A $8M · 16 mo ago NooksSeries A $25M · 17 mo ago · 1 role
3,616 open roles at 55 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Microsoft976 new roles in 30 days Okta126 new roles in 30 days Hadrian68 new roles in 30 days Applied Intuition51 new roles in 30 days Lyft48 new roles in 30 days Twitch23 new roles in 30 days
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Y Combinator 18 shared Andreessen Horowitz 13 shared GV 7 shared First Round Capital 7 shared Soma Capital 7 shared Sequoia Capital 5 shared Kleiner Perkins 5 shared Initialized Capital 4 shared FundersClub 4 shared Insight Partners 4 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Y Combinator First Round Capital Andreessen Horowitz Techstars Initialized Capital General Catalyst Soma Capital GV
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 8

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Shared investors1
Vintage Investment PartnersVia a fund
81 portfolio companies: RobCo, Veho, Onyx and 78 more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Palo Alto United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff