Mike Maples — Co-founder, Floodgate

**Mike Maples Jr.** is the co-founder and Partner at **Floodgate**, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto. Floodgate has invested in companies including **Twitter** (one of the earliest investors), **Lyft**, **Twitch**, **Okta**, **Chegg**, **Applied Intuition**, and dozens of others. Mike has been on the Forbes Midas List of top tech investors multiple times.