Joe Floyd

“An entrepreneur is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

Joe’s passion for founders carries through everything he does. “Not every superhero needs to shoot spider webs from his hands. I want my children to know that there are other heroes in the world - inventors, visionaries, and business leaders, who perform heroic feats with scarce resources against all odds.”

A General Partner at Emergence Capital and a Kauffman Fellow, Joe’s expertise in building cloud startups has evolved from over twenty years of advising and investing in rocketship startups like Salesloft, Together AI, Bolt.new, and more.

Before joining Emergence, Joe was a Senior Associate in American Capital’s technology group where he focused on investing in fast-growing internet and software companies. Joe earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics and BS in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.