Mike Maples
Founding Partner at FLOODGATE
Mike Maples
Founding Partner at FLOODGATE
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2006 - Current
Our objective is to invest in the extraordinary top "point 1 percent" companies earlier than anyone else and provide as much help as possible in realizing extraordinary outcomes. Example investments include Twitter, Lyft, Bazaarvoice, Sparefoot, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Doubledutch, Twitch.tv, Playdom, Chegg, Demandforce, Rappi, Smule, and Outreach.
Co-Founder
1997 - 2005
Co-Founded Motive, Inc in 1997 (IPO 2004, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent in 2006). Served in various roles, including Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, GM of a Business Unit, and Business Development.
Director, Product Marketing
1994 - 1997
Started as product manager for Tivoli's PC desktop management products. Took over responsibility for deployment products and then product marketing for the complete Tivoli product line as part of the IBM Software Group.
Product Manager
1990 - 1992
Product Manager for Digital Media hardware in what was then known as Entry Systems Division (ESD).
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
Beyond Lean Startups: Pre-Money Keynote Speech from 6–22–16
Talks about lean startups, 500 Startups Pre-Money Conference and entrepreneurship