Mike Maples Pattern Breakers Tour - USC

​Join Crater Ventures for a fireside chat with one of Silicon Valley's most recognized VC's.

​​​Mike Maples is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate. He has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade and was also named a “Rising Star” by FORTUNE and profiled by Harvard Business School for his lifetime contributions to entrepreneurship.

​​​Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was involved as a founder and operating executive at back-to-back startup IPOs, including Tivoli Systems (IPO TIVS, acquired by IBM) and Motive (IPO MOTV, acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.)

​​​Some of Mike’s investments include Twitter, Twitch.tv, Clover Health, Okta, Outreach, Chegg, Demandforce, and Applied Intuition. Mike is also the author of the National Bestselling book Pattern Breakers and host of the Pattern Breakers podcast, which shares startup lessons from the super performers.

​​​Crater Ventures ☄️

​​​​​​Crater Ventures is a student-run micro-VC built to back student/alumni founders from SoCal universities at the earliest stages. Our team spans 10+ universities and we've previously backed 20+ companies across Southern California. If there is a startup on our campus or beyond, we'll know about it!

​​​​​​Check out our website to learn more: crater.vc ☄️

​Troy Labs

​TroyLabs is a student-run accelerator at USC, proudly sponsored by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurship and Marshall School of Business. We're dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and supporting early-stage startups at USC. Our mission is to encourage innovation, empower student founders, and promote entrepreneurial curiosity across campus, creating a vibrant ecosystem where USC startups can flourish and make a lasting impact.