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Mike Maples

Seed investing OG at Floodgate; Author of the bestselling book Pattern Breakers, available wherever you buy books. Co-conspirator with awesome Startup Founders who want to dominate the future.

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,550,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2006

  • Founding Partner

    2006

    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.

1997 - 2005

  • 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.

1990 - 1992

  • Product Manager

    1990 - 1992

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