Ann Miura-Ko — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recognized multiple times on the Forbes Midas List and New York Times global top 20 venture capitalists list.
Co-Founding Partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage venture capital firm.
Early investor in companies including Lyft, Xamarin, SmarterDX, Terradot, Roo, Studio, Nooks, and Prax Health.
Co-founding member of AllRaise, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the success of female founders and funders.
Co-director of the Stanford Mayfield Fellows Program, teaching entrepreneurship and leadership.
Serves on the Board of Trustees at Yale University.
Holds a PhD in Math Modeling of Information Security from Stanford University.

Biography

Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage venture capital firm. She has been recognized multiple times on the Forbes Midas List of top venture investors and on the New York Times global top 20 venture capitalists list.

With a technical background, including a PhD in Math Modeling of Information Security from Stanford, Miura-Ko invests in a range of companies from those based on technical papers to consumer companies at the inception stage.