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Floodgate

The Kingmaker in the Background: Kathryn Gould

Most venture capitalists don’t curse like sailors. Most can’t boast a 90 percent internal rate of return over the course of their investing careers, either. Kathryn Gould — the inimitable founder of Foundation Capital, who today spends much of her time today on her vineyard in the foothills of California’s Sierra mountain range — is […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital, Floodgate, Foundation Capital, Kathryn Gould, Mar Hershenson, Mike Maples, Pejman Mar

Weathergage: Peers Thought We Were “Half Crazy” to Back Micro VC

Judith Elsea, a cofounder of the Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture fund-of-funds Weathergage Capital, has been a proponent of micro-VC funds since long before the term came into fashion. We caught up last week to talk shop, during which time Elsea was fairly candid — except about whether eight-year-old Weathergage has sealed up a third, $200 […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics, Fundraising Tagged With: Floodgate, Judith Elsea, Weathergage Capital

Chatting with Tommy Leep of Rothenberg Ventures

By Semil Shah Earlier this year, Tommy Leep joined San Francisco-based Rothenberg Ventures as a partner after spending more than two years at Floodgate as its “chief connector,” helping entrepreneurs get their startups off the ground. We recently chatted with Leep — who was once a product manager at Intuit — about the move, as […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Floodgate, Mike Maples, Mike Rothenberg, Rothenberg Ventures, Tommy Leep

Bigcommerce Primes Itself for a Big Round

Bigcommerce, a five-year-old, Austin-based start-up whose software-as-a-service helps more than 55,000 companies create and manage their online stores, is in the market for more funding, co-founder and CEO Mitchell Harper suggested in a wide-ranging conversation with StrictlyVC last week. The company — which charges its customers a flat rate of between $24 per month, all […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Fundraising Tagged With: Bigcommerce, Floodgate, General Catalyst, Mitchell Harper, Shopify, Steve Case Revolution

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