Mike Maples Jr.

Co-Founding Partner at Floodgate · Joined 2008

Biography

Mike Maples, Jr. is a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a Menlo Park seed stage venture firm he started with Ann Miura-Ko, whose firm bio dates the founding to 2008. His Floodgate bio states that some of his investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Clover Health, Okta, Outreach, Chegg, Demandforce and Applied Intuition, and that he has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade. Before investing full time he was a founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, Tivoli Systems and Motive. He is the author of the national bestselling book Pattern Breakers, co-written with Peter Ziebelman and published in July 2024, and coined the term Thunder Lizards.

Education

BS Engineering, Stanford University
MBA, Harvard Business School

Previous Experience

Founder and operating executive, Tivoli Systems (IPO TIVS, acquired by IBM)
Founder and operating executive, Motive (IPO MOTV, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent)

Notable Investments

TwitterTwitch.tvClover Health CLOVOkta OKTAOutreachChegg CHGGDemandforceApplied Intuition

Career Timeline

2004

Concluded there would be a major shift in how companies get started, the idea that led to Floodgate.

2008

Co-founded Floodgate with Ann Miura-Ko as one of the first seed funds.

2024

Published the national bestseller Pattern Breakers, co-written with Peter Ziebelman, on July 9.

Sources & References

Floodgate - Mike Maples, Jr. ↗Floodgate - Team ↗Floodgate - Ann Miura-Ko ↗Hachette Book Group - Pattern Breakers ↗