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Floodgate Fund
USINFO | 2013-07-05 09:49
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. It is focused on investments in technology companies in Silicon Valley.
Investments
Floodgate has invested in a number of companies 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, used textbook rental service Chegg, Formspring (which later became Formstack), Milk Inc. (a company founded by Kevin Rose that was acquired by Google), local chores outsourcing platform TaskRabbit, and seasteading platform company Blueseed.
Media coverage
Floodgate Fund and Mike Maples have been covered in TechCrunch and Forbes. Mike Maples of Floodgate was also interviewed about his investment philosophy by Sarah Lacy for TechCrunch TV.
Investments
Floodgate has invested in a number of companies 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, used textbook rental service Chegg, Formspring (which later became Formstack), Milk Inc. (a company founded by Kevin Rose that was acquired by Google), local chores outsourcing platform TaskRabbit, and seasteading platform company Blueseed.
Media coverage
Floodgate Fund and Mike Maples have been covered in TechCrunch and Forbes. Mike Maples of Floodgate was also interviewed about his investment philosophy by Sarah Lacy for TechCrunch TV.
