Ann Miura-Ko
Co-Founder & Partner @ Floodgate
Palo Alto, United States
Ann Miura-Ko is a seed investor at Floodgate in Palo Alto focused on E-Commerce and Software. Ann Miura-Ko, has been called “the most powerful woman in startups.” She is the co-founding partner at seed-stage VC firm, Floodgate, where she has made early investments in TaskRabbit, Xamarin, Refinery29 and Lyft (she’s also a board member). Ann believes in creation over disruption and that world-class effort will always be rewarded, especiallyin Silicon Valley, where we are just beginning to scratch the surface of so many new and emerging technologies. She is a lecturer at Stanford where she teaches how to spot controversial and disruptive insights, network effects, organizational design, and more.
- Total investments:
- 53
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Ann Miura-Ko invests in
Stages Ann Miura-Ko invests in
Countries Ann Miura-Ko invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 9 (17%)
- Software 6 (11%)
- Information Technology 5 (9%)
- Finance 4 (8%)
- Internet 4 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (34%)
- Series A 17 (32%)
- Series B 7 (13%)
- Series C 4 (8%)
- Funding Round 3 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Plug is a wholesale auction that facilitates online buying and selling of used EVs. | $6.7M / Seed / Apr 08, 2025 | ||
| Popshop live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where talented individuals can create and host their own shopping channel and sell directly to a global audience. Viewers can interact and shop with the broadcasters in real-time during the streams and access their favorite broadcasters’ storefronts and previous shows anytime.This uniqueplatform was designed to showcase individuality and intimately connect exceptional sellers and their unique products / services to vital buyers who love to learn, explore and collect. | $20M / Series A / Jul 07, 2021 | ||
| Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods and eventually people, to fly without pilots. It specializes in the fields of software, transportation, and information technology. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $25M / Series B / May 26, 2021 | ||
| The world's first self-organizing workspace. | $5.6M / Seed / Apr 06, 2021 | ||
| Hebbia's core software application, Matrix, ingests unstructured information from corporate document repositories, financial filings, expert transcripts, and virtual data rooms to index facts into auditable knowledge charts. The system utilizes multi-agent orchestration to automate sequential administrative processes, enabling users toconstruct comparison tables, generate investment research reports, and track compliance documentation. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Oct 29, 2020 | ||
| Popshop live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where talented individuals can create and host their own shopping channel and sell directly to a global audience. Viewers can interact and shop with the broadcasters in real-time during the streams and access their favorite broadcasters’ storefronts and previous shows anytime.This uniqueplatform was designed to showcase individuality and intimately connect exceptional sellers and their unique products / services to vital buyers who love to learn, explore and collect. | $3M / Seed / Jul 08, 2020 | ||
| Emotive is a conversational sms marketing service. They build for the fashion, food, beverages, fitness, and household markets. Their features include automated text messages, e-commerce sms, business texting, mass texting, sms broadcasts, cart recovery, and CRM with text messaging. Their NLP is used to learn about the customers and their issues sothat their partner stores can make recommendations. | $5.5M / Series A / May 20, 2020 | ||
| Emotive is a conversational sms marketing service. They build for the fashion, food, beverages, fitness, and household markets. Their features include automated text messages, e-commerce sms, business texting, mass texting, sms broadcasts, cart recovery, and CRM with text messaging. Their NLP is used to learn about the customers and their issues sothat their partner stores can make recommendations. | $2.7M / Seed / Sep 14, 2019 | ||
| Bot MD is an AI assistant for doctors. They provide hospital information to provide instant answers to doctor queries and help automate patient care. Their hospital information systems provide instant answers to call rosters, hospital directories, guidelines, drugs, and HR leave policies. | $1.6M / Seed / Aug 07, 2018 | ||
| Monthly is pioneering an entirely new way to learn online, creating classes that are intensive, 30-day experiences focused on doing and creating, not just passively watching videos. We make classes that people finish and love, that can be taken from anywhere, by anyone, together. | Seed / Aug 01, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Floodgate
Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Floodgate Contacts
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Ryan Walsh
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Ann Miura-Ko
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Arjun Chopra
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Carly Malatskey
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Iris Choi
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What does Ann Miura-Ko invest in?
Ann Miura-Ko invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 53 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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