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Ryan Floyd

Co-founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures. Interested to hear from passionate entrepreneurs in B2B SaaS and tech

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

Sectors:

Developer Tools

Social Networks

Cloud Infrastructure

San Francisco Bay Area

Locations:

Menlo Park, California

Min Investment:
$500,000.00
Max Investment:
$7,000,000.00
Target Investment:
$3,000,000.00

Skills

Education

SU
BS MS
Stanford University
(1990 - 1994)
Germantown Academy
(1986 - 1990)

Lists including Ryan

All Series A Investors

14748 people

All Seed Investors

19691 people

Investments

Harmonic Security

Total Funding: $7M

Nexla

Total Funding: $34M

SucceedSmart

Total Funding: $6M

SignalWire

Total Funding: $45M

Splashtop

Total Funding: $120M

Workato

Total Funding: $490M

Digital Shadows

Total Funding: $58M

Avanoo

Total Funding: $8M

AtScale

Total Funding: $93M

LiftIgniter

Total Funding: $8M

Work Experience

SV

2000

Co-founding Managing Director
2000
Early stage investor in enterprise SaaS

L

1998 - 2000

Director Business Developement - E-TEK / JDSU
1998 - 2000

SP

Summit Partners

1994 - 1998

Associate
1994 - 1998

Latest Articles

Medium•Dec. 2021

Understanding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the Startup World

Diversity And Inclusion

Diversity In Tech

and Inclusion (DEI)

ethnic/cultural diversity

Medium•Dec. 2021

Outside The Perimeter: The New Digital Risk Landscape

Threat Intelligence

digital risk landscape

Medium•Dec. 2021

Bootstrapping vs investment: one venture investor says VC money isn’t always best

Medium•Feb. 2021

What is enterprise automation? Q&A with Workato’s Markus Zirn

Enterprise Technology

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Feb. 2021

How to Deal with Acquisition Interest

Mergers And Acquisitions

Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Jan. 2021

Common mistakes made by startup founders and how to avoid them

Startup Lessons

Founder Stories

Venture Capital

Leadership Skills

Hiring For Startup

Medium•Jan. 2021

How to email an investor you’ve never met — and get a response

Venture Capital

Startup Funding

Medium•Jan. 2021

Angel investor vs VC: which should your tech start-up pitch to?

Venture Capital

Angel Investors

Medium•Jan. 2021

Workato — Future of the Enterprise

Venture Capital

Enterprise Software

Startup Funding

Medium•Nov. 2020

Creating a strategy to tackle customer churn for a tech startup

Venture Capital

Startup Strategy

Medium•Nov. 2020

Remote work best practices — a CFO’s perspective

Medium•Oct. 2020

Negotiating Your Term Sheet: Startup Vesting and Pro Rata Rights

Startup Lessons

Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Jul. 2020

Building Remote Teams — All You Need To Know

Team Collaboration

Medium•Feb. 2020

How to prepare a pitch deck for a SaaS investor

Venture Capital

Presentation Tips

Medium•Jan. 2020

How to Fix Sales Churn

Sales Development

Medium•Nov. 2019

Workato: the next chapter

Venture Capital

Medium•Oct. 2019

Why SaaS startups should care about churn

Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Sep. 2019

Calculating sales efficiency in a startup: The magic number that will help you scale

Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Sep. 2019

Why this US investor is on the hunt for European founders

Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship

US investors in European startups

Medium•Sep. 2019

There’s no need to fear AI: It will create as many jobs as it steals

Artificial Intelligence

AI and job creation

Medium•Aug. 2019

Why we need to give more funding to female entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship

Female Founders

female entrepreneurs

gender diversity

Medium•Feb. 2019

The UK Focus on Brexit: Brexit will bring chaos but as an investor it won’t put me off

Medium•Dec. 2018

The Need for Speed

Cloud Computing

Venture Capital

Information Technology

Medium•Jan. 2018

The Role of the Investor- a Heavybit Industries Podcast

Venture Capital

Medium•Jul. 2017

Why Storm invested in Workato

Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship