Floodgate
Floodgate is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA investing in Other, Marketplace, Consumer. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 28 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 28 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- AUM
- $396M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Marketplace, Consumer, SaaS, Enterprise, Healthcare, Climate / Energy, EdTech, Real Estate, Food / AgTech
- HQ
- Palo Alto, CA
Last verified: 2026-05-22
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $2.0M
$396M
28+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Very early-stage firm (pre-seed/seed) backing founders at inception with product/market discovery support.
How Floodgate invests
Floodgate is a vc firm based in Palo Alto, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Marketplace, Consumer, SaaS, Enterprise.
Floodgate typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $396M in assets under management.
Floodgate has backed 28 companies in our records, including Lyft, Twitch, Okta.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (28)
Other
Lyft
Twitch
Okta
Applied Intuition
SmarterDx
Hebbia
Hadrian
Counsel
Terradot
Aceable
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Marketplace, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Becky Wallace, Relations Manager.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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