2021 was powered by the pioneering spirit of entrepreneurs everywhere. They invented new ways for us to work, live and play, in a world that remained mostly remote.

2021 at a Glance

Our POV on Venture Capital

Celebrating our Founders

Embracing DEI through Access for All

Our POV on Human/Planetary Health

Industry Recognition for Managing Director Navin Chaddha

Our Promise to Entrepreneurs

We are privileged to partner with the dreamers and risk takers who are changing the way we live, work and play. Here’s what it means to partner with the Mayfield team.

We are your partners for life, investing in your success beyond money.

Putting people first is our number one core value. We get that the only relationship that matters is human to human.

Our POV on Venture Capital

We believe that the venture capitalist focus on partnering with bold founders at the inception stage will foster global innovation.

Enterprise focused entrepreneurs made us even more productive in a multi-cloud, dev-centric and silicon-powered world. Consumer-focused ones allowed us to engage in authentic social connections and enabled us to transact our everyday lives from our fingertips. As the climate crisis escalated, human and planetary health focused entrepreneurs delivered on their promise to re-invent trillion dollar industries and to build a better world for our generation and the next ones. Entrepreneurs were amply rewarded by private and public market investors, with new unicorns being born every day. Amidst all this innovation, it has never been more important to remain conscious leaders who are committed to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion.

At the same time, 2021 was a year of vigorous debate around the evolving model of venture capital. At Mayfield, we doubled down on our commitment to fostering ideas at the earliest stages and investing in relationships from inception to iconic. We are grateful for the opportunity to serve as partners to founders, and we’re looking forward to all that is to come thanks to their innovation. We invite you to leap into a bright future with us.

2021

Year in Review

Our Promise to Entrepreneurs

5 Exits

6 Unicorns

16 New Teams

11 Gamechanger Stories

4 Conscious Leader Podcasts

We go early and we go deep.

We embrace taking risk as you shape your idea into a company. We partner with pioneers who create trends vs imitators chasing existing trends. We bring domain expertise and our full attention to your business, regardless of check size. We meet you where you are at, starting at $500K for Seed, up to $12M for Series A.

We understand company building is not a straight line.

We are a team of founders backing founders. Our lived experience makes us truly empathetic to your journey and gives us the imagination to invest in the things we might not be able to see today. And as we’ve been through the company building marathon ourselves, we are not surprised by team changes, pivots, PMF and GTM experiments.

We know it takes a team to build a company.

We have one early-stage team and fund so the same team works with you from day zero through iconic. At the founding stage, we partner with angel and seed-stage investors who bring complementary expertise and networks.

We scale with you.

We help you evolve from founder to CEO and partner with proven coaches to guide your journey. We deliver a custom program, the Mayfield Velocity Platform, to accelerate your path from idea to escape velocity. Our network of operators and advisors complement your team and bring expertise that matches your company stage.

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Celebrating our Founders

Congratulations to the 5 Teams with Significant Financial Milestones

Couchbase empowered enterprises to develop, deploy, and maintain their mission-critical applications as it made its public debut on NASDAQ

HashiCorp solidified its status as the platform company for the multi-cloud age with its public debut on NASDAQ

Poshmark anchored its position as social commerce leader with its public debut on NASDAQ

Nuvia leveraged the renaissance of silicon to align with Qualcomm

Volterra built a full stack edge network that powered its acquisition by F5 Networks

Kudos to the 6 Unicorns & 13 Teams that Raised over $3B in Follow-on Capital

$250M at a $3.5B valuation

$420M at a $25B valuation

$200M at a $4.4B valuation

$195M at a $1B valuation

$110M at a $1.5B valuation

$250M at a $1.6B valuation

$25M

$13M

$22M

$420M

$65M

$11M

$84M

Welcome to the 9 Teams who Debuted their Offerings and the 7 Stealth Teams who Joined the Mayfield Family

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Partnered Early

Our 11 Gamechangers Shared Wisdom of the Trail

4 Conscious Leaders Shared their Perspectives

Vulnerability & Growing as a Leader with Outreach Founder Manny Medina

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Mindfulness & Leadership with Nutanix & DevRev Founder Dheeraj Pandey

Codifying an Inclusive Company Culture with HashiCorp Co-founder Armon Dadgar

Building a Double Bottom Line Business with Grove Collaborative CEO Stu Landesberg

Our DEI Efforts Gained Momentum

Introducing the 2021 Mayfield Summer Fellows

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The Voice of the Only: Advice from Standouts in the Boardroom

From Inception to Iconic: All Raise x Mayfield

Rajeev, Tim & Rishi Join Pledge 1% Boardroom Allies

Healthcare Pioneers Share Secrets to Building Iconic Engineering Biology Companies

A Road Map for Climate Investors -- Arvind Gupta

Our POV on Human & Planetary Health

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Made 13th appearance on Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors

Named TiE’s Venture Capitalist of the Year

Prediction on Saving our World with Biology voted as Commonwealth Club Top Tech Trend

Shared highlights from his journey

Our MD Navin Chaddha Received Industry Recognition

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Wishing You a Wonderful Holiday Season

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Partnered Early

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BACK TO AT A GLANCE

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