Floodgate Fund
| Company type | Venture fund |
|---|---|
| Industry | Finance |
| Founded | March 2010 (as Floodgate Fund)[1] |
| Founder |
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| Website | floodgate |
Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm based in the United States created by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko. It was originally named Maples Investments, but was renamed Floodgate Fund in March 2010.[1] It is focused on investments in technology companies in Silicon Valley.
Investments
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In October 2021, Floodgate raised $146 million for its seventh fund. In previous years, their sixth fund closed at $131 million, their fifth fund closed at $76 million, the fourth fund closed at $75 million and their third fund at $73.5 million.[2]
Floodgate has invested in a number of companies[3] including Twitter, Digg, location-based services company Gowalla, professional networking service BranchOut,[4][5] Chegg, Formstack, Milk Inc.,[6] TaskRabbit,[7] self-storage marketplace SpareFoot,[8] and seasteading platform company Blueseed.[9]
As of 2017, they've also invested in Lyft, Refinery29, LabDoor, education startup MissionU, legal discovery startup, TextIQ, Okta[10] and Rappi.[2] Floodgate was also an early investor in Applied Intuition, a software company for autonomous vehicles.
Media coverage
[edit | edit source]Floodgate Fund and Mike Maples have been covered in TechCrunch[1] and Forbes.[11] Mike Maples of Floodgate was also interviewed about his investment philosophy by Sarah Lacy for TechCrunch TV.[12]
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External links
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