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Mike Maples

Founding Partner at FLOODGATE

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Mike Maples is a Founding Partner at FLOODGATE, a seed investing firm, known for investing in successful startups like Created by Humans and AirGarage. He is also the author of the bestselling book "Pattern Breakers," focusing on empowering startup founders to dominate the future through strategic partnerships and product management. With a background in venture capital and product management, Mike has co-founded successful companies like Motive Inc and made impactful investments in various sectors, including Education, SaaS, and Enterprise software.

Work Experience 

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FLOODGATE

  • 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.

Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.

floodgate.com
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Motive Inc

  • 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.

Motive digital life management software helps service providers deliver new generation of IP-based services that seamlessly integrate

motive.com

Tivoli Systems (now part of IBM Software Group)

  • 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.

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Silicon Graphics

  • Product Manager

    1990 - 1992

    Product Manager for Digital Media hardware in what was then known as Entry Systems Division (ESD).

Silicon Graphics provides workstations for conceptual design analysis and simulation of 3D objects.

sgi.com

Education 

Investments 

Created by Humans

Seed

Total funding: $5M

Ario

Seed

Total funding: $17M

Handraise

Seed

Total funding: $6M

REALLY

Seed

Total funding: $18M

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