It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States, Europe, India and China operating in the agribusiness, financial services, energy, data, communication, infrastructure, software, internet of things, clean energy, retail, business e-commerce and healthcare sectors. The firm was founded in 1969 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
In April 2016 Mayfield raised $525 million across two new funds, including a $400 million early-stage firm and a $125 million fund that will be used to support portfolio companies that need later-stage funding.
Mayfield has raised 14 early-stage funds. It closed its last fund with $365 million in 2012 and used that capital to fund roughly 30 companies.
Timeline
Funded Companies
HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure and run infrastructure for distributed application for organizations.
Grove Collaborative is an online, subscription-based retailer selling natural home and health products.
Lyft is an American transportation network company. It designs, markets and operates a mobile application for matching drivers with passengers.
Mammoth Biosciences is an American company based in San Francisco founded on June 1, 2017. Mammoth Biosciences uses CRISPR technology to develop bio-sensing technologies for diagnostics in industries such as healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and forensics.
Nebula Genomics is a genetics company developing a platform for individuals to get their personal genome sequenced, and then enable them to store and control that information through cryptographic encryption on the blockchain.
Crunchbase is company that offers an online platform for discovering information related to private and public businesses.
Mission Bio is a South San Francisco based company that develops single-cell DNA analysis and precision genomics.
Nuvia is an electronics company that develops silicon processors for computer-based work
Lendingkart Technologies is an Ahmedabad-based financial technology company developing tools for alternative data analysis and offering working capital loans for small businesses.
WideOrbit is a company that offers software for advertising management
Couchbase, Inc. is a software company that develops and offers commercial packages.
HealthTap is a Palo Alto-based telemedicine company which connects people to doctors via a mobile application.
Phiar Technologies is a company that provides a vehicle navigation platform based on the combined technologies of deep learning artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
Centrify is a company that offers Identity and Access Management and Privileged Identity Management to secure access across computer network and cloud computing environments. The company was formed in 2004. It is located in Santa Clara, California.
CloudGenix is a U.S-based company developing software-defined WAN.
Formerly analyticsMD, Qventus is a company designing and developing artificial intelligence based software platform for hospital operations with the use of real time data analytics.
Company
Simplilearn is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2009 by Krishna Kumar.
Qualcomm Atheros is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 1998 by Teresa H. Meng.
PlayFirst is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2004 by Jason Rubinstein.
Stockpile is a Palo Alto, California-based mobile application for beginners and children to learn about stocks, investing in stocks or gifting stocks.
Poshmark is a San Francisco-based company founded by Tracy Sun.
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Associated investment funds
People
Allen Guo
Employee
Allen Morgan
Employee
Barney Pell
Employee
Christopher Wu
Investor
David Chen
Employee
David Vivero
Employee
Eric Tilenius
Employee
Kamini Ramani
Employee
Kevin Fong
Employee
Michael Levinthal
Employee
Navin Chaddha
Employee
Paul Fulton
Employee
Pedram Mokrian
Employee
Prashant Fuloria
Employee
Raj Kapoor
Employee
Rajeev Batra
Employee
Rehan Jalil
Investor
Robin Vasan
Employee
Sandeep Johri
Advisor
Tim Chang
Employee
Tom Patterson
Employee
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