About Mayfield India
Investor team with roots in India | Investing Mayfield India Fund: $111 million
The Indian market—with its strong GDP, expanding middle class, entrepreneurial culture and wealth of talent—offers tremendous opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors. Mayfield India’s team is uniquely poised to help our entrepreneurs identify and leverage these opportunities.
The Mayfield India team is comprised of Navin Chaddha, Vikram Godse, Nikhil Khattau, Robin Vasan, and James Beck. Sunil Singh serves as Venture Advisor in India. Team members are based on the ground in India and in the U.S., allowing us to track trends, assess opportunities, and share strategic resources and information from two vantage points. The team has invested in over 20 Indian companies in the past, of which 7 have had IPOs and another 5 have been acquired.
Mayfield India invests in India-based companies that have potential to become industry leaders, with a focus on Consumer Services, Internet, Mobile, Technology & Technology Enabled Services, Logistics, and Agriculture-related Businesses. We also invest a portion of our Mayfield XIII fund in technology-focused opportunities in India. Our portfolio companies include Centum Learning, dealsandyou, Fourcee, Genesis Colors, Geodesic Techniques, and Sohan Lal Commodity Management. Notable past successes of the team include IL&FS Investsmart, India Bulls, India Games, MakeMyTrip, Persistent Systems and Suzlon Energy.
Mayfield India’s team approach to investing is simple: we invest in relationships, not transactions. What does this mean for the entrepreneur? Ongoing personal attention from our partners, expertise and resources from our network of global relationships, and insights from a 42-year track record of success that includes over 500 investments with more than 100 IPOs and over 100 mergers and acquisitions.
