Floodgate Fund
| Venture fund | |
| Industry | finance |
| Founded | March 2010 (as Floodgate Fund), was Maples Investments before that.[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
Floodgate has invested in a number of companies[2] including microblogging service Twitter, user-driven news sharing service Digg, location-based services company Gowalla (later acquired by Facebook), Facebook-based professional networking service BranchOut,[3][4] used textbook rental service Chegg, Formspring (which later became Formstack), Milk Inc. (a company founded by Kevin Rose that was acquired by Google),[5] local chores outsourcing platform TaskRabbit,[6] self-storage marketplace SpareFoot,[7] and seasteading platform company Blueseed.[8]
Media coverage
Floodgate Fund and Mike Maples have been covered in TechCrunch[1] and Forbes.[9] Mike Maples of Floodgate was also interviewed about his investment philosophy by Sarah Lacy for TechCrunch TV.[10]
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External links
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- Profile of Floodgate on CrunchBase
