Mayfield Fund News: June 2012
Mayfield Fund Update
It has been a productive first half of 2012 at Mayfield Fund. Highlights include:
- Entrepreneurs from 3 new companies have joined the family (SmartRecruiters/Jerome Ternynck, MOAT/Jonah and Noah Goodhart, and BranchOut/Rick Marini).
- We also invested in two stealth mode companies.
- Two portfolio companies were acquired (Quickoffice/Google, Red Beacon/Home Depot), the acquisition of one is pending (Global English/Pearson PLC), one received liquidity through a secondary sale (Fourcee in India), and one filed a confidential submission with the SEC for a planned IPO (SolarCity).
- Several portfolio companies earned awards (the latest being Appcelerator which was named Always On Mobile Company of the Year) and Navin Chaddha and Tim Chang of our team were recognized as well (Chaddha and Chang as Forbes Midas Top Tech Investors & AlwaysOn Mobile Power Players and Chaddha as an AlwaysOn Cloud Power Player).
- We continue to meet many audacious entrepreneurs who are forming companies that support our investment themes – cloud/SaaS, mobile, social, energytech, and big data. Please visit blog.mayfield.com for our views on these themes.
- Consequently, despite the current uncertainty in global markets, we continue to be optimistic about the state of innovation and venture capital.
Wishing all our readers an enriching summer,
Mayfield Fund Team
In the News
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Navin Chaddha and Tim Chang Named AlwaysOn Mobile Power Players |
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VentureBeat Publishes Navin Chaddha's Views on Mobile Developer Pain Points |
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