Floodgate

Summary

FLOODGATE appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Ann Miura-Ko, Mike Maples. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. This FLOODGATE works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The typical startup value when the investment from FLOODGATE is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lyft, Okta, Clover Health. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Software.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the FLOODGATE, startups are often financed by Version One Ventures, Founder Collective, Cherry Tree Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shasta Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Uncork Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shasta Ventures, GV, 500 Startups.