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Websitefloodgate.com
Employees
Founded3/10
DescriptionVenture Fund

Funds

Fund III, 8/10 $73.5M

Offices

Palo Alto, USA
820 Ramona St
Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA, 94301
USA

People

Chief of Staff
Managing Partner
Managing Partner

Tags

FLOODGATE

FLOODGATE is a venture capital firm specializing in micro-cap investments in start-ups. The firm seeks to invest in technology related sectors. It typically invests between $150,000 and $1 million. The firm prefers to invest in companies located in either the San Francisco Bay Area or in Austin, Texas. It prefers to invest alongside other experienced private investors or top-tier venture firms. FLOODGATE is based in Palo Alto, California.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Matchbox 12/11Unattributed$2.5M3
TaskRabbit 12/11Series B$17.8M8
Clearslide 9/11Series A$11M3
Zimride 9/11Series A$6M3
Socialware 8/11Series C$7M5
Okta 8/11Series B$16.5M8
Complete Solar Solution 7/11Series A1
Wordnik 7/11Series C$8M5
PixelFish 7/11Unattributed$4M6
Reputation 7/11Series D$41M5
Refinery29 7/11Series A2
Slice 5/11Series A$9.4M6
SBR Health 5/11Seed$1.67M1
BranchOut 5/11Series B$18M4
LiquidSpace 5/11Series A$3.6M2
TaskRabbit 5/11Series A$5M7
Rivet Games 4/11Series B4
Kno 4/11Series C$30M6
Milk 4/11Angel$1.5M25
SpareFoot 3/11Series B$3.5M4
Egnyte 3/11Series B$10M2
Giftly 3/11Seed$2.8M6
Pipewise 2/11Series A$3.5M5
1000memories 2/11Series A$2.5M7
Socialware 2/11Unattributed$3M3
Vook 1/11Series A$5.25M2
Chloe + Isabel 1/11Seed9
PixelFish 12/10Series B$2.1M1
LiquidSpace 12/10Seed$1.3M2
Mass Relevance 12/10Series A$2.2M3
Rally.org 12/10Seed3
Monetate 12/10Series A$5.1M2
Stipple 11/10Seed$2M11
Sharethrough 10/10Series A$5M2
WellnessFX 10/10Series A$1.85M3
BranchOut 9/10Series A$6M16
NewsCred 9/10Seed$750k2
Pantheon 9/10Seed$1.3M7
Ayasdi 9/10Seed1
TaskRabbit 8/10Seed$850k4
Zimride 8/10Seed$1.2M3
ModCloth 6/10Series B$19.8M5
Metamarkets 6/10Seed$2.5M14
Formspring 3/10Series A$2.5M12
PayNearMe 3/10Series B$3.3M5
ngmoco 2/10Series C$24.2M4
Vook 2/10Seed$2.5M5
Okta 2/10Series A$10M7
RelTel 12/09Seed$1M6
Gowalla 12/09Series B$8.29M9
ReTel Technologies 12/09Seed$1M8
TaskRabbit 10/09Seed$1M3
SnapLogic 10/09Series A$2.3M4
MPOWER Mobile 10/09Unattributed$5M1
Egnyte 7/09Series A$6M2
CoTweet 7/09Series A$1.1M6
PayNearMe 5/09Series A$3M5
Kno 5/09Angel$1.85M2
ngmoco 3/09Series B$10M3
Hyper9 2/09Series B$8M4
Dasient 2/09Seed$2M3
Smule 2/09Series A$3.9M3
OneSpot 2/09Series A$4.2M3
National Payment Network 1/09Series B3
DotBlu 12/08Series A$2M2
B-Side Entertainment 11/08Series B$4.25M5
AdRoll 9/08Series A$4M9
Reputation.com 9/08Series A$3M3
Hyper9 8/08Series B1
RealTravel 8/08Series C$800k2
Sharethrough 8/08Seed$1M4
Circle of Moms 1/08Seed3
Pownce 1/08Angel2
Hooja 12/07Seed$1.25M4
Sendori 11/07Series A$800k3
Mesmo.tv 10/07Series A$900k6
Weebly 5/07Angel$650k5
Chegg 1/07Series A$2.2M2
Anchor Intelligence 1/07Series A$2M8
B-Side Entertainment 10/06Series A$3.1M4
Vizu Corporation 2/06Series A$1M6
Badongo.com 1/06Series A15
Digg 10/05Series A$2.8M7
Odeo 8/05Series A16

Videos

Sources

  1. SEC (sec.gov) [edit]
  2. Egnyte (egnyte.com) [edit]
  3. Matchbox gets $2.5M for iPad college admissions app (masshightech.com) [edit]
  4. TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. ClearSlide Secures $11 Million from Greylock and Felicis to Expand Sales Communications Platform (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  6. Ride-Sharing Platform Zimride Raises $6 Million Series A (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Morgan Stanley Leads $7M Round In Social Media Compliance Startup Socialware (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Khosla, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz Put $16.5M In Enterprise Cloud App Management Startup Okta (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Complete Solar Solution, Inc. Announces Series A Investment from FLOODGATE (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  10. Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, As Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video) (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  11. PixelFish Raises $4 Million To Help Small Businesses Tap Into Web Video (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Reputation.com Raises $41 Million Series D Financing Led by August Capital (reputation.com) [edit]
  13. Refinery29 Adds Shopping After Drawing an Audience in With Content (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  14. Online Shopping Startup ProjectSlice Raises $9.4 Million From Eric Schmidt, Michael Birch And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. Health-care video company SBR attracts $1.67M funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
  16. Exclusive: BranchOut Raises $18M For Facebook-Focused Professional Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Cubicle Rental Startup LiquidSpace Closes $3.6 Million Series A Round (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  18. TaskRabbit Gets $5M From Shasta Ventures, First Round And Others To Help People Get Stuff Done (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. Rivet Games Raises Series B Financing for Next Gen Web, Social and Mobile Games (prweb.com) [edit]
  20. SEC Form D (edgar.sec.gov) [edit]
  21. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. SpareFoot Lands $1.5 Million For Online Marketplace For Self-Storage Companies (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  23. Kleiner leads $10M Egnyte funding (bizjournals.com) [edit]
  24. Giftly Now Lets You Give The Gift Of Discovery (And Some Money, Too) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. ccLoop Announces Series A Funding (ccloop.com) [edit]
  26. Greylock Invests $2.5 Million in 1000Memories (TCTV) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  27. Socialware Lands $3 Million To “Put Social Networks To Work” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  28. Vook Raises $5.25 Million, Builds Media That’s Fit For Tablets And Smartphones (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  29. New York Startups Shapeways, Chloe + Isabel, and HowAboutWe.com Rake in Cash (xconomy.com) [edit]
  30. Video Marketing Platform PixelFish Raises $2.1 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. techcrunch.com [edit]
  32. Mass Relevance Raises $1.7 Million For Brand-Focused Social Syndication Service (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
  33. Social Fundraising Platform Piryx Is Reborn As Rally.org With Top Investors In Tow (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  34. Monetate Secures $5.1 Million Financing to Support Continued Growth (prweb.com) [edit]
  35. Stipple Raises $2M From Kleiner Perkins, Mike Maples … And Justin Timberlake (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  36. Sharethrough raises $5M to turn video ads into viral hits (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  37. With Funding From Floodgate And More, WellnessFX Launches A Next-Gen WebMD (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  38. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. Reinventing News Syndication (blog.newscred.com) [edit]
  40. Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Web Development Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  41. Citation Needed [add]
  42. TaskRabbit gets $850K to cross errands off your to-do list (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  43. techcrunch.com [edit]
  44. ModCloth Raises $19.8 Million Series B For Indie Fashion (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  45. TechCrunch: Metamarkets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  46. NY Times (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
  47. Virtual Goods' Payment Firm Kwedit Raises $3.3M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  48. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  49. Vook Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
  50. Powder in the keg (blog.okta.com) [edit]
  51. RelTel captures $1M to analyze surveillance video (green.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  52. TechCrunch, SEC (crunchbase.com) [edit]
  53. SEC (sec.gov) [edit]
  54. Xconomy (xconomy.com) [edit]
  55. Data integration company SnapLogic raises another $2.3M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  56. DigitalMedia Wire (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
  57. EGNYTE ANNOUNCES $6M SERIES A FUNDING (freshnews.com) [edit]
  58. View my * My Posts * Facebook * Twitter * Friendfeed * LinkedIn * Digg * CoTweet Now in Public Beta; Get the Same Twitter CRM Tools as Big Brands (mashable.com) [edit]
  59. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  60. Citation Needed [add]
  61. iPhone Game Publisher Raises $10 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
  62. Venrock Leads Investment Round in Hyper9, Mike Maples Sr. Joins Its Board of Directors (austin.dbusinessnews.com) [edit]
  63. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  64. iPhone Developer Smule Raises $3.9 Million First Round (washingtonpost.com) [edit]
  65. Seeding Austin Startups: OneSpot And 7 Billion People Raise Series A Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  66. nationalpayment.net [edit]
  67. Online Social Gaming's DotBlu Raises $2M 1st Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  68. B-Side to enter feature distribution (variety.com) [edit]
  69. paidcontent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  70. TechCrunch [edit]
  71. MAPLES INVESTMENTS BACKS HYPER9 (hyper9.com) [edit]
  72. Real Travel Raises Series C (equityhelpdesk.com) [edit]
  73. The Viral Video Guy Gets $1 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  74. Circle of Moms gets circle of traffic (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  75. Pownce Raises Angel Funding (blog.wired.com) [edit]
  76. venturebeat.com [edit]
  77. thealarmclock.com [edit]
  78. techcrunch.com [edit]
  79. techcrunch.com [edit]
  80. venturebeat.com [edit]
  81. Citation Needed [add]
  82. VC Deals (hosting.mansellgroup.net) [edit]
  83. answers.vizu.com [edit]
  84. Citation Needed [add]
  85. goliath.ecnext.com []
  86. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]
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