Ann Miura-Ko

Floodgate - Managing Partner

Ann Miura-Ko is the Co-Founding Partner of Floodgate, a seed-stage venture firm recognized as one of the most influential early-stage investors in Silicon Valley. She has backed transformative companies including Lyft, Refinery29, Xamarin, and TaskRabbit from their earliest stages, developing a rigorous framework for identifying breakthrough startups based on market insurgency theory. Ann has been named the most powerful woman in venture capital by Forbes and is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford University. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Yale and a PhD from Stanford, where her research focused on quantitative security modeling.