Mayfield

Mayfield is one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most established venture capital firms, with over 50 years of history. They invest across technology sectors including healthcare and life sciences, backing founders building transformative companies from the earliest stages.

Location
Menlo Park, California, USA
Founded
1969
AUM
$3B+
Investment Range
$1M - $50M
Portfolio Companies
1
Focus
generalist
Fund Stages
seed, series-a, series-b, series-c

Investment Thesis

Mayfield partners with exceptional founders at the earliest stages of company building. In healthcare, they focus on companies applying technology to transform healthcare delivery, improve patient outcomes, and enable new modalities of care.

Team

Partners / Managing Directors (Health & Bio Focus)

  • Navin Chaddha - Managing Partner
  • Tim Chang - Partner
  • Rajeev Batra - Partner

Other Key Team Members

  • Investment team with decades of venture experience

Focus Areas

  • Enterprise technology
  • Consumer technology
  • Healthcare technology
  • Digital health
  • AI/ML applications
  • Infrastructure

Notable Exits

  • Compaq - Acquired by HP (2002, $25B)
  • Genentech - Early investor (acquired by Roche)
  • SolarCity - Acquired by Tesla (2016)

Notable Healthcare Investments

  • Helix - Potential investor ($200M round, 2018, population genomics)
  • Multiple healthcare technology investments

Sources

Portfolio Companies

NameLocationFoundedCategories
HelixSan Mateo, California, USA2015
genomics-sequencingpopulation-health+2