Ann Miura-Ko

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Dr. Ann Miura-Ko is a Co-Founder & serves as Partner at Floodgate. Dr. Miura-Ko serves as Board Member at Terradot. She serves as Advisor at Delight Ventures. She serves as a Board Member at Complete Solar. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide, She was also named the "Most Powerful Woman in Startups" by Forbes. She is well-known in Silicon Valley as a pioneer investor in highly technical companies because of her background as a PhD in math modeling of infosec at Stanford. Her deep interest in technology began as a child - her father was a NASA rocket scientist - and her expertise developed as an undergraduate at Yale, where she participated in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France. She has also made significant investments in consumer (commerce, curation), marketplaces, and software for SMBs and solopreneurs. Some of her investments include Lyft (where she is still a board member), Xamarin, Monthly, Popshop, Emotive, and Refinery29. She is also a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford, a co-director of the Mayfield Fellows Program at Stanford, a member of the Board of Trustees for Yale University, and a co-founding member of All Raise, a nonprofit committed to improving diversity in funders and founders. Prior to Floodgate, she worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company.