FLOODGATE (venture capital firm)

Floodgate is a venture capital firm that backs founders at the pre-seed and seed stages. Its site repeats the same short tagline throughout, framing the firm as aiming to be among the first backers a founder speaks to, rather than a later-stage investor. The site's navigation points to sections covering the firm's investing beliefs, its portfolio companies, its team and published insights, alongside a series called Pattern Breakers, though the fetched page gives little further detail on specific sectors or named portfolio companies beyond these headings. The firm is based in Menlo Park, California, and its site otherwise centres on a small number of core statements about backing founders early rather than extended detail on strategy.