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FLOODGATE

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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.

Recent Milestones

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  FLOODGATE invested in Compare Metrics . (5/21/13)
  Posted 5/21/13 at 7:15pm via finsmes.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Tango Card. (4/19/13)
  Posted 4/20/12 at 7:45am via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Handshakez. (3/6/13)
  Posted 3/6/13 at 4:35pm via allthingsd.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Connected Data. (1/31/13)
  Posted 1/31/13 at 10:14pm via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Insurance Zebra. (1/31/13)
  Posted 1/31/13 at 8:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Lyft. (1/30/13)
  Posted 1/30/13 at 7:04pm via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Ayasdi. (1/16/13)
  Posted 1/15/13 at 9:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in LiquidSpace. (1/15/13)
  Posted 1/15/13 at 6:56pm via finsmes.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Refinery29. (1/12/13)
  Posted 1/11/13 at 7:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in FitStar. (12/20/12)
  Posted 12/19/12 at 7:39pm via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Blueseed. (12/13/12)
  Posted 12/15/12 at 6:51pm via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in OutboundEngine. (11/14/12)
  Posted 11/16/12 at 11:28pm via marketwire.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in DoubleDutch. (11/12/12)
  Posted 11/13/12 at 2:50am via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Mango Health. (11/5/12)
  Posted 4/3/13 at 9:45am via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Clever. (10/22/12)
  Posted 10/23/12 at 2:07am via techcrunch.com
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  FLOODGATE invested in Streak. (10/15/12)
  Posted 10/16/12 at 1:34am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. SEC (sec.gov) [edit]
2. Floodgate Targets $75M for Fourth Fund (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
Twilio For Education Data, Clever, Lands $3M From Kevin Rose, Mike Maples & Ashton Kutcher, Now In 2K Schools (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Compare Metrics Receives $4.2M in First Financing Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. Tango Card Raises Another $4.1M As Gift Cards Get More Enterprising (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Handshakez, Measuring Customer Engagement, Lands $3.6M Series A (allthingsd.com) [edit]
6. Insurance Zebra Raises $1.5 Million From Mark Cuban, Floodgate, Silverton & Birchmere To Be The Kayak For Auto Insurance (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. After A Successful Kickstarter Campaign, Connected Data Raises $6M For Its Transporter Secure Cloud Storage Device (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Ahead Of Expansion, Lyft Parent Zimride Closed $15M In New Funding From Founders Fund And Existing Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. DARPA-Backed Ayasdi Launches With $10M From Khosla, Floodgate To Uncover The Hidden Value In Big Data (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. LiquidSpace Raises $6M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
11. Refinery29 Raises $3.5 Million Through A Private Offering, According To SEC Filing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. FitStar Raises $1M From Floodgate, Google Ventures To Revolutionize Home Fitness From The iPad (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Mike Maples Gets On Board Blueseed’s Sea Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. OutboundEngine Launches, Secures $1.6 M in Series A Funding (marketwire.com) [edit]
15. Mobile-First Enterprise Startup DoubleDutch Raises $4 Million Series B From Floodgate & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. There’s An App For That: Mango Health Gives Rewards For Taking Your Vitamins, Medicine Every Day (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Twilio For Education Data, Clever, Lands $3M From Kevin Rose, Mike Maples & Ashton Kutcher, Now In 2K Schools (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Streak Raises $1.9 Million For Gmail-Based CRM App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Sharethrough Raises $5M For Its Native Video Ad Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Backed By Floodgate, SV Angel & Others, M.dot Launches iOS App For Building Mobile Websites From Your iPhone (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. GENWI Raises $2M (finsmes.com) [edit]
22. Ensighten Raises $15.5M Series A Round To Provide Enterprise Tag Management (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. Bigcommerce Raises $20M To Help SMBs Manage E-Commerce (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. PLAiR Raises $2.1M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
25. One Jackson Seeded With $2M to Connect Parents with Indie Clothing Designers (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
26. Citation Needed [add]
27. Microsoft .NET for Mobile Company Xamarin Gets $12 Million In Series A Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Social Fundraising Platform, Rally.org, Raises $7.9 Million to Rally the World (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
29. angel.co [edit]
30. Naval Ravikant joins board of Wanelo as the fast-growing social commerce site expands beyond its mall rat demographic (pandodaily.com) [edit]
31. Big Data For Higher Ed: With $4.1M From First Round, Floodgate, Former Kaplan Exec Launches Civitas Learning (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. Social Syndication Startup Mass Relevance Raises $3.3M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Image Monetization Startup Stipple Raises $5M Led By Floodgate And Relevance (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. OnSports Raises $2M Led By Floodgate To Be The Mobile Watercooler For Sports Fanatics (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. DoubleDutch Secures $2M To Sell Geolocation To Businesses (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
36. Mango Health: A Mobile App For Rewarding People Who Stay On Track With Prescription Drugs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. IFTTT, A Glue Gun For Sticking The Web Together, Raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. Matchbox gets $2.5M for iPad college admissions app (masshightech.com) [edit]
39. TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. ClearSlide Secures $11 Million from Greylock and Felicis to Expand Sales Communications Platform (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
41. Ride-Sharing Platform Zimride Raises $6 Million Series A (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. Morgan Stanley Leads $7M Round In Social Media Compliance Startup Socialware (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Khosla, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz Put $16.5M In Enterprise Cloud App Management Startup Okta (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. Complete Solar Solution, Inc. Announces Series A Investment from FLOODGATE (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
45. Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, As Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video) (allthingsd.com) [edit]
46. PixelFish Raises $4 Million To Help Small Businesses Tap Into Web Video (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. Refinery29 Adds Shopping After Drawing an Audience in With Content (allthingsd.com) [edit]
48. Online Shopping Startup ProjectSlice Raises $9.4 Million From Eric Schmidt, Michael Birch And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Health-care video company SBR attracts $1.67M funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
50. Exclusive: BranchOut Raises $18M For Facebook-Focused Professional Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. Cubicle Rental Startup LiquidSpace Closes $3.6 Million Series A Round (businessinsider.com) [edit]
52. TaskRabbit Gets $5M From Shasta Ventures, First Round And Others To Help People Get Stuff Done (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. Rivet Games Raises Series B Financing for Next Gen Web, Social and Mobile Games (prweb.com) [edit]
54. SEC Form D (edgar.sec.gov) [edit]
55. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
56. SpareFoot Lands $1.5 Million For Online Marketplace For Self-Storage Companies (techcrunch.com) [edit]
57. Giftly Now Lets You Give The Gift Of Discovery (And Some Money, Too) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. Kleiner leads $10M Egnyte funding (bizjournals.com) [edit]
59. ccLoop Announces Series A Funding (ccloop.com) [edit]
60. Greylock Invests $2.5 Million in 1000Memories (TCTV) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. Socialware Lands $3 Million To “Put Social Networks To Work” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. ivp.com [edit]
63. Vook Raises $5.25 Million, Builds Media That’s Fit For Tablets And Smartphones (techcrunch.com) [edit]
64. New York Startups Shapeways, Chloe + Isabel, and HowAboutWe.com Rake in Cash (xconomy.com) [edit]
65. Video Marketing Platform PixelFish Raises $2.1 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
66. techcrunch.com [edit]
67. Mass Relevance Raises $1.7 Million For Brand-Focused Social Syndication Service (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
68. Social Fundraising Platform Piryx Is Reborn As Rally.org With Top Investors In Tow (techcrunch.com) [edit]
69. Monetate Secures $5.1 Million Financing to Support Continued Growth (prweb.com) [edit]
70. Stipple Raises $2M From Kleiner Perkins, Mike Maples … And Justin Timberlake (techcrunch.com) [edit]
71. Sharethrough raises $5M to turn video ads into viral hits (venturebeat.com) [edit]
72. With Funding From Floodgate And More, WellnessFX Launches A Next-Gen WebMD (techcrunch.com) [edit]
73. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
74. Reinventing News Syndication (blog.newscred.com) [edit]
75. Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Web Development Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
76. Citation Needed [add]
77. TaskRabbit gets $850K to cross errands off your to-do list (venturebeat.com) [edit]
78. techcrunch.com [edit]
79. ModCloth Raises $19.8 Million Series B For Indie Fashion (techcrunch.com) [edit]
80. TechCrunch: Metamarkets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
81. NY Times (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
82. Virtual Goods' Payment Firm Kwedit Raises $3.3M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
83. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
84. Vook Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
85. Powder in the keg (blog.okta.com) [edit]
86. crunchbase.com [edit]
87. RelTel captures $1M to analyze surveillance video (green.venturebeat.com) [edit]
88. TechCrunch, SEC (crunchbase.com) [edit]
89. SEC (sec.gov) [edit]
90. Xconomy (xconomy.com) [edit]
91. Data integration company SnapLogic raises another $2.3M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
92. DigitalMedia Wire (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
93. EGNYTE ANNOUNCES $6M SERIES A FUNDING (freshnews.com) [edit]
94. 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]
95. Citation Needed [add]
96. EDGAR [edit]
97. iPhone Game Publisher Raises $10 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
98. Venrock Leads Investment Round in Hyper9, Mike Maples Sr. Joins Its Board of Directors (austin.dbusinessnews.com) [edit]
99. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
100. iPhone Developer Smule Raises $3.9 Million First Round (washingtonpost.com) [edit]
101. Seeding Austin Startups: OneSpot And 7 Billion People Raise Series A Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
102. nationalpayment.net [edit]
103. Online Social Gaming's DotBlu Raises $2M 1st Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
104. B-Side to enter feature distribution (variety.com) [edit]
105. paidcontent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
106. TechCrunch [edit]
107. MAPLES INVESTMENTS BACKS HYPER9 (hyper9.com) [edit]
108. Real Travel Raises Series C (equityhelpdesk.com) [edit]
109. The Viral Video Guy Gets $1 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
110. Pownce Raises Angel Funding (blog.wired.com) [edit]
111. Circle of Moms gets circle of traffic (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
112. venturebeat.com [edit]
113. thealarmclock.com [edit]
114. techcrunch.com [edit]
115. techcrunch.com [edit]
116. venturebeat.com [edit]
117. Citation Needed [add]
118. VC Deals (hosting.mansellgroup.net) [edit]
119. answers.vizu.com [edit]
120. Citation Needed [add]
121. goliath.ecnext.com []
122. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]