Investments

We have raised thirteen U.S. funds, one India fund , and have assisted our partner GSR Ventures raise three China funds, resulting in $2.8 billion under management. We are currently investing Mayfield Fund XIII, capitalized at $395 million.

Our investment strategy demonstrates diversity across sectors, stages and regions. Our key sectors include companies targeted at consumer, enterprise, energy tech, communication service providers and chips and components. We incubate companies, make seed and Series A investments, and invest at growth and later stages. Our key focus is on companies located across the U.S. as well as cross-border companies domiciled in Europe, India and China.

Notable Investment

Akimbi Systems, Inc.

Test configuration automation through virtualization. Acquired by VMware in 2006.

http://www.vmware.com/

Alfresco Software

Leading open source alternative for enterprise content management.

http://www.alfrescosoftware.com

Centrify Corporation

Identity and policy management solution that extends Active Directory to other platorms.

http://www.centrify.com

GroundWork

Leading provider of open source IT monitoring solutions

http://www.groundworkopensource.com

Marketo, Inc.

Online marketing automation SaaS solution

http://www.marketo.com

NorthScale, Inc.

Provides software infrastructure for scale out of web data management.

http://www.northscale.com/

Notable Investment

Riverbed Technologies

Developer of mobile computing software. Acquired by Aether Systems in 2000.

Notable Investment

Trigo

Provider of product data management solutions. Acquired by IBM in 2004.

http://www.trigo.com

Notable Investment

webMethods

Leading provider of enterprise application integration solutions. The company went public in 2000.

http://www.webmethods.com

Webroot

PC and internet security solutions.

http://www.webroot.com