Grace Gong

http://www.thelastkeytosuccess.com

Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.

I go LIVE with a VC/ LP/ founder daily here on LinkedIn. Past guests: Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Greycroft - Ian Saginaw Partner @ Vintage Investment Partners - Shira Eting Founder & CEO @Techstars - David Cohen General Partner @ Gradient Ventures - Darian Shirazi Managing Partner @ Eclipes Venture - Lior Susan General Partner @ Lux Capital - Shahin Farshchi Co-Founder and Partner @ Tribe Capital - Arjun Sethi Managing Partner @ Left Lane Capital - Jason Fiedler Founding Partner @ Lobby Capital - David Hornik Founder & Managing Partner @Ahoy Capital - Chris Douvos Managing Partner @ Kindred Ventures - Kanyi Maqubela Founder & General Partner @ Boldstart - Ed Sim Founder @ Partner @ Defy VC - Neil Sequeira Partner @ Cendana Capital - Kelli Fontaine Partner @ Sapphire Ventures - Rajeev Dham Partner @ NEA - Vanessa Larco Partner @ IVP - Yuri Lee Partner @ Primary Ventures - Emily Man Partner @ Madrona - Vivek Ramaswami Partner @ Craft Ventures - Bryan Rosenblatt Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures - Saanya Ojha Partner @ M13 - Brent Murri Partner @ Bessemer - Mike Droesch Partner @ Pear VC - Vivien Ho Partner @ Redpoint Ventures - Jordan Segall Partner @ Wing Venture Capital - Chris Zeoli Partner @ Menlo Ventures - Steve Sloane Partner @ Felicis - Tobi Coker Partner @ Upfront Ventures - Aditi Maliwal Founding Partner @ NewView Capital - Ravi Viswanathan General Partner @ DCVC - Alan Cohen Managing Partner & Co-Founder at 645 Ventures - Nnamdi Okike General Partner @ Foundation Capital - Ashu Garg Co-Founder & Managing Partner @Congruent Ventures - Abe Yokell Partner @ Lead Edge Capital - Emila Damjanovic General Partner @ Headline - Jett Fein General Partner @ AlleyCorp - Abe Murray General Partner @ Contrary - Kyle Harrison Partner @ 500 Global - Clayton Bryan Founding Partner @Acrew Capital - Mark Kraynak Chief Investment Strategist @ Ark Invest - Charlie Roberts And more …

SVPs past emerging tech guests including: Founder, CEO of OpenSea - Devin Finzer Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity)s Co-founder & Groth Lead - Jiho Jeffrey Zirlin Partner at True Ventures, founder of Moonbirds, PROOF Collective Founders, CEO, COO of Magic Eden - Jack Lu and Zhuoxun Yin Managing Partner of SuperLayer, Founding CEO of Rally, Forte, Kabam - Kevin Chou Co-founder & CEO of Republic - Kendrick Nguyen Dapper Labs Dapper Collectives CEO, Founder of Brud & Friends with Benefits DAO - Trevor McFedries Partner at #Hashed, Investor in Axie Infinity, dYdX, ZKSync - Baek Kim Alliance DAOs Founder, CEO (Core Contributor) - Imran Khan Abras Founder & CEO - Bill Barhydt EToros Funder & CEO - Yoni Assia CoinFunds Founder & CEO - Jake Brukhman Partner at BITKRAFT Ventures - Moritz Baier-Lentz FTX.US President - Brett Harrison VP of Coinbase - Sanchan S Saxena VP of OpenSea - Shiva Rajaraman President of Vayner3 - Avery Akkineni Cooper Turley, Music NFT Collector, investor in Sound, Catalog, Royal, advisor at Audius Index Ventures Partner - Rex Woodbury Founder & CEO of Sino Global Capital - Matthew Graham General Catalysts Managing Director - Niko Bonatsos General Partner of M13 - Latif Peracha Investor at M13 - Mark Grace Managing Partner at Chapter One - Jeff Morris Jr Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures - Steve Jang

Technology is bringing abundance to the world. But, only a handful of people start the iconic companies with the biggest impact. At Floodgate, we call these special founders the Prime Movers. Prime Movers -- through their vision, talent, and will -- create massive outcomes from nothing. Equally important, they are brave enough to defy conventional wisdom. Walls and barriers and “rules” accepted by others don’t stop them. Floodgate backs Prime Movers before others believe. We are built from the ground-up to partner with Prime Movers when their legendary journeys begin. We’ve seen that breakthroughs seem crazy at first. We are not afraid of startups that re-write the rules (and even the law), if that’s what it takes to create enduring change. We know that a raw startup must navigate through a fog of massive uncertainty. Dramatic and frequent course corrections come with the territory. Taking these risks with founders is unique to our DNA and how we add value.

Craig Newmark - Founder of Craigslist Jim McKelvey - Co-founder of Square Justin Osofsky - COO of Instagram Chris Slowe - CTO of Reddit Todd Kaplan - CMO of Pepsi Suzanne Kounkel - CMO of Deloitte Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean - Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of DoorDash Daniel Kan - Co-founder & CPO of Cruise Matt Madrigal - CTO at Pinterest of Pinterest Grant Sanderson - 3Blue1Brown, 5.42M subscribers on YouTube Kevin Rose - Partner at True Ventures, ex-GP at Google Ventures Robert Rosenberg - 35-Year CEO of Dunkin Donuts, ex-Board Member @Dominos Pizza Monty Moran - ex-CO-CEO Chipotle Mexican Grill Jeetu Patel - CPO of Cisco, ex-CPO & CSO @ Box Fabrice Grinda - Investor at FJ Labs Portfolio: Alibaba Paul Madera - Co-founder & General Partner at Meritech Capital. Portfolio: Facebook, Salesforce Rob Chesnut - ex Chief Ethics Officer @Airbnb, SVP @eBay & Chegg Olivia Nottebohm - CRO of Notion, ex COO of Dropbox, ex VP at Google Marvin Chow - VP of Google Erin Egan - VP & Chief Privacy Officer, Public Policy at Facebook / Meta Ethan Evans - VP of Amazon Sanchan Saxena - VP of Coinbase David Cowan - Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners Portfolio: LinkedIn, Twitch Promod Haque - Senior Managing Partner at Norwest Venture Partners Terry McGuire - Co-founder & Partner at Polaris Partners Katelin Holloway - Partner at Seven Seven Six, ex VP at Reddit Kim Scott - NYT&WSJ Bestselling Author of Radical Candor, ex-CEO coach of Dropbox &Twitter Chris Voss - WSJ Bestselling Author Bob Muglia - ex CEO of Snowflake, ex President of Microsoft Sumit Chauhan - CVP of Microsoft +more Ranked by Listen Notes as one of the top 1.5% most popular shows globally Listenership 100 + countries Nominated by Asian American Podcasters Association for Golden Crane Awards Apple:https://apple.co/3d6bGea Spotify: http://bit.ly/gracegong Website: https://www.smartventurepod.com YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube