Ann Miura-Ko
Co-Founding Partner at Floodgate
Palo Alto, CA
Writes $500K – $5M checks
Midas 2024 · #53Midas 2023 · #75Midas 2022 · #88Midas 2021 · #89Midas 2020 · #96Midas 2019 · #57Midas 2018 · #55Midas 2017 · #77
About
Ann Miura-Ko co-founded Floodgate with Mike Maples Jr. and helped define the modern seed-stage playbook, backing Lyft and Refactor Capital-era startups before micro-VC was mainstream. A Stanford PhD who lectures at the university, she is a frequent voice on what she calls 'thunder lizard' startups and co-founded the nonprofit All Raise to support women in venture.
Ann Miura-Ko 🦖 @annimaniac
This was 1998 😂
Jul 14, 2026
Ann Miura-Ko 🦖 @annimaniac
Just realized this has been in my resume since I graduated word for word and suddenly it's actually relevant: Senior Thesis: Co-engineered a team of five autonomous robots programmed using artificial intelligence to perform real-time reasoning in order to win a game of soccer
Jul 14, 2026 · ♥ 37
Ann Miura-Ko 🦖 @annimaniac
https://t.co/TygZO5TsNj independently recreated Waymo's human baselines, extended them to more cities and trucking routes, and made the tool public. Estimating a crash rate seems simple: crashes divided by miles driven. In practice, the resulting crash rate changes drastically
Jun 19, 2026 · ♥ 6
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Podcasts & interviews
featuring Ann Miura-Ko
Ann Miura-Ko on FLOODGATE's Thunder Lizard Theory and Achieving Product Market Fit | Blitzscaling 04
Greylock · youtube.com
Daring to be Different: An Exclusive Conversation with Ann Miura-Ko, Partner, Floodgate
Accelerate Yale
Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate) Gives You 2 Ways to Think About Markets
NFX
Blitzscaling 04: Ann Miura-Ko on FLOODGATE's Thunder Lizard Theory and Achieving Product Market Fit
Greylock
