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Maples: Floodgate Will Never Scale to a Multi-Hundred-Million-Dollar Fund
“No, we'd never be that big. I don't think we'll ever be as big of a fund as like the Series A guys.”
Miura-Ko: Only 25 IT startups reach $500M+ exits annually
“What we found is that at five hundred million dollars and greater, there is roughly somewhere around 25 companies Plus or minus five to 10 that exit every single year, and those are the companies that really actually move the needle for venture capital.”
Maples: Floodgate will not write seed checks under $500,000
“Probably about as low as I would go as half a million bucks.”
Maples: Floodgate funded Lyft at a $5.5M post-money valuation
“Ann funded Lyft at five and a half million post money.”
Maples: 2007 Silicon Valley Founders Couldn't Raise $1M Seed Rounds
“When I would talk to entrepreneurs, they literally couldn't raise a million dollars in Silicon Valley. They could either raise a tiny amount of money from angels and friends and family, or They had to go straight to a five million dollar series a round with a …”