# Floodgate

> Floodgate is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 321 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 321
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last fund: Oct 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/floodgate
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/floodgatefund
- Website: http://www.floodgate.com

Floodgate is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. 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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Floodgate. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Floodgate. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/floodgate?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$9M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$25M |
| Series B | $3.9M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 78 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 38 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 30 | 9% |
| Internet | 26 | 8% |
| SaaS | 25 | 8% |

267 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 127 | 40% |
| Series A | 101 | 31% |
| Series B | 36 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 217 | 68% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 0% |
| Germany | 1 | 0% |
| Colombia | 1 | 0% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ann Miura-Ko | Co-Founder & Partner | 52 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ann-miura-ko |
| Arjun Chopra | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arjun-chopra-2 |
| Carly Malatskey | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carly-malatskey |
| Iris Choi | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iris-choi |
| Leeor Mushin | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leeor-mushin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EFEX | Efex is platform that helps businesses and individuals to make and manage their payments. Efex offers international and domestic payments, invoicing, reconciliation, collection, and risk analysis of its clients. This allows our customers to engage in smarter, simpler, faster payments and trade. | $10.6M | Seed | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Terra | Terra provides platform to track and remove uncertainties while developing, manufacturing, and shipping products overseas. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Plaicin | Plaicin is a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence to create immersive, interactive storytelling experiences. The company's offering is an AI-powered platform that allows users to imagine, create, and live their own stories. Through this platform, users can craft interactive adventures, shape entire worlds, and explore limitlesspossibilities. The platform supports the creation of diverse narratives, from fantasy romances to sci-fi mysteries, enabling users to make choices that influence the story's outcome. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Xpertloop | Xpertloop provides knowledge-sharing platform for experts and creators to wrap their expertise through customized AI-powered interactions |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Joey AI | Joey AI is a social networking platform that develops an AI-based matchmaking platform designed for personalized relationship discovery |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Wavedash | Wavedash is a new gaming platform that lets people play high-quality PC games in their web browser. | $3.8M | Seed | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Magic | Magic is an AI-based firm that merges personalization with experiences to bring real-world experiences. | $10M | Seed | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Counsel Health | Counsel Health helps patients to get access to medical advice virtually. | $25M | Series A | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Bluejay AI | Bluejay is the platform for AI agent quality assurance. Reducing development processes from days to minutes, preventing performance regressions, and identifying issues before entering production. | $4M | Seed | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Artifact | Artifact provides AI solutions for electrical design, engineering calculations, multi-fidelity system design, and material bill generation. | $3.5M | Seed | Aug 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 321 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 33 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 14 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Floodgate invest in?

Floodgate invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 321 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Floodgate's check size?

Floodgate typically joins rounds of $1M–$9M at Seed, $2.2M–$25M at Series A and $3.9M–$37M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Floodgate participates in.

### How do I contact Floodgate?

Public channels for Floodgate include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Floodgate?

The team at Floodgate includes Ann Miura-Ko (Co-Founder & Partner), Arjun Chopra (Partner) and Carly Malatskey (Associate), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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