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Silicon Valley 40 under 40: Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

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Anna Miura-Ko, Co-founder/Floodgate

Staff, Silicon Valley Business Journal

Ann Miura-Ko

Co-founder, Floodgate
Age: 37
Born: Santa Monica (grew up in Palo Alto)

Anna Miura-Ko[1] co-founded the VC firm, Floodgate, which specializes in early stage venture capital investments in startups, and currently sits on the boards of ModCloth, Refinery29, Chloe + Isabel, Wanelo, Zimride, Ayasdi, Inscopix and CSS.

She teaches High-Tech Entrepreneurship with Steve Blank[2].

Prior to her becoming an entrepreneur, she was part of a five-person robotics team at Yale University team that designed four robots to autonomously play soccer, which competed at the RoboCup competition in Paris.

First job: Professional photo copier in an office at Yale

Best advice ever received: No matter what you do (including photo copying), be world class

Word that best describes you: Tiger Mom

Favorite job perk: Pop Rocks in the conference room and the Herve Leger Barbie doll a founder sent to me

Fantasy career: Venture Capital

Favorite car: Honda Odyssey, which has 17 cup holders

Favorite stress release: Playing piano

Superpower you'd like to have: Time travel

Something about you that would surprise others: I can type the alphabet in less than 4 seconds

Biggest whoops: Turning down the opportunity to invest in the seed round of Pinterest (DOH!)

Favorite causes: Level Playing Field Institute

Pets: None — I have three kids under the age of 7!

References

  1. ^ Anna Miura-Ko (feeds.bizjournals.com)
  2. ^ Steve Blank (feeds.bizjournals.com)
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