About
Ann Miura-Ko is the co-founding partner at seed-stage VC firm, Floodgate. She has been on the Forbes Midas List of top venture investors multiple times and on the New York Times global top 20 venture capitalists list. She has made early investments in Lyft and Xamarin as well as newer companies like SmarterDX, Terradot, Roo, Studio, Nooks and Prax Health. Given her technical background (PhD in Math Modeling of Information Security from Stanford), she invests in everything from a few students with a technical paper to consumer companies at the inception stage.Ann believes in co-conspiring with founders partnering with a select group of only 3-5 founders a year. With over a decade of experience exclusively working with pre-product market fit startups, Ann has seen many of the founders she has worked with pivot into success and has a set of mental models associated with navigating the early stage maze. She only invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies with check sizes ranging fro…
Experience
Co-Founding Partner
Present
Co-conspirator to preseed and seed stage founders before product market fit. Partners with only 3-5 companies per year (not spray and pray). Leads rounds with check sizes ranging from $300k to 3M. Takes board seats. Lead seed investor and initial board member for companies like Lyft and Xamarin and more recent investments like SmarterDX, TerraDot, Studio and Roo.vet
Co Director of the Mayfield Fellows Program
Present
Co Director and lecturer of an immersive nine month entrepreneurship and leadership program that trains a diverse cohort of 12 Stanford undergraduate and co-term students to become leaders in tech. Program alumni include Josh Reeves founder of Gusto, Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, founders of Instagram.
Member Board of Trustees
Analyst
• Sourced deal financed by Ted Dintersmith (Venetica) which subsequently was acquired by IBM in a profitable deal for CRV only one year later • Performed due diligence on, evaluated and filtered business plans • Wrote and revised executive summary and pitches with CEOs of portfolio companies • Presented venture capital industry overview and recommendations for investments strategies to managing partners in new and emerging industries like biotechnology and nanotechnology
Senior Business Analyst
Wireless Internet Expert. Led team members in researching topics and structuring problems. Presented recommendations to senior client management. Studies included: • Wireless Internet strategy for wireless operators − Developed a venture capital arm for a Japanese wireless operator. Led analysis of threats and opportunities for investment within US wireless market landscape − Launched one of the first European wireless internet services for a Spanish wireless operator by identifying key strategic relationships and necessary content. • Strategy for growth for three Wireless Internet start-up companies − Identified priority market segments specifically within US enterprise wireless data market on which to focus to drive revenue growth.
Education
Stanford University
Ph.D., Quantitative Modeling of Computer Security
Yale University
B.S., Electrical Engineering
Palo Alto High School
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