Investor profile

Floodgate

Venture Capital · Founded 2006 · Palo Alto, United States

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249 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $3.4B invested · 369 investments · Investor rank #876 · Last investment 2/2026

Portfolio companies 249 ↑ 18% 5y

Decacorns 2

Thoroughbreds 15

Power Law #109Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 1%

Exits

Floodgate’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Floodgate’s transaction record.

Lyft

$24B IPO · 2019

Entered SeedNow $5.5BTransportation

Okta

$1.5B IPO · 2017

Entered SeedNow $22BSecurity

Clover Health

$3.7B IPO · 2021

Entered Series B+Now $2.0BHealth

BigCommerce

$1.6B IPO · 2020

Entered Series B+Now $242MFintech

Portfolio analysis

Where Floodgate’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 249 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA235
UK2
Canada1
Colombia1
Cuba1
France1
Germany1
Indonesia1
Israel1
Italy1
Poland1
Switzerland1

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software67
Media36
Fintech30
Marketing23
Health19
Education15
Security12
Telecom12
Transportation12
Fashion11
Energy9
Food8

By stage enteredCount

Seed145
Series A85
Series B+17

By growth stageCount

Early Growth126
Breakout Stage80
Late Growth42
Mature1

Portfolio market map

Inside Floodgate’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 249 tracked.

Lyft

Transportation · Unicorn

Transportation · Decacorn

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

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Portfolio founders

Where Floodgate’s portfolio founders come from.

131 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States104
Israel4
United Kingdom4
Argentina2
Brazil1
Cuba1
Hong Kong1
India1
Indonesia1
Peru1

UniversityCount

Stanford University19
University of California, Berkeley8
Harvard University6
University of California, Los Angeles5
Columbia University4
University of Oxford4
Cornell University3
Harvard Business School3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
MIT Sloan School of Management3

Previous companyCount

Alphabet | Google7
Activa Live4
Amazon4
Microsoft4
Bazaarvoice3
IBM3
JP Morgan3
McKinsey & Company3
New York Presbyterian Hospital3
Salesforce3

How Floodgate stacks up

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Key people

Key people at Floodgate.

Co - Founder & Partner

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.