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Floodgate

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United States$500K – $5M

About Floodgate

Pre-seed micro-VC focusing on non-consensus, inflection-driven pattern-breaking startup ventures, delivering small-check investing expertise and proprietary inflection-theory and pattern-breaker frameworks to evaluate ideas and pivots. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

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