Navin Chaddha

Navin Chaddha is a proven serial entrepreneur and venture investor. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009, and ranked on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 dealmakers as #11 in 2009 and #10 in 2008. He invests in the Enterprise, Telecom, Energytech, Internet and Semiconductor sectors in the U.S. and is the founder of Mayfield’s dedicated India Fund, which he oversees. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Gigya, Pano Logic, SolarCity, StorSimple, Tejas Networks and Wide Orbit and is also involved with Mayfield investments in Consim, Lattice Power, SeedFund and SMIT.

Navin has made over 30 investments of which 11 have had IPOs and another 9 have been acquired. Some of his notable investments include Akamai, Qwest Communications, MakeMyTrip, and Rhythms Net Connections which had successful IPOs on NASDAQ.  Other investments that have had significant exits through acquisitions include Ankeena Networks (Juniper Networks), CPower (Constellation Energy), Mimosa Systems (Iron Mountain Inc.), and WiChorus (Tellabs Inc.).

Prior to joining Mayfield, Navin was a Partner at Gabriel Venture Partners and EIR at Mobius Venture Capital. As an entrepreneur, he was founder and CTO of VXtreme (acquired by Microsoft) to became Windows Media. Navin served in various management roles at Microsoft after that. He was also the co-founder of iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ IPO) and CEO and founder of Rivio (acquired by CPA2Biz).

Navin holds an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University (received Stanford and IBM Graduate Fellowships) and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi (received the Director’s Medal for being first in his class) and was honored with the prestigious distinguished IIT Alumni Award in 2006. He holds 35 patents and serves on the advisory board of Stanford Engineering Venture Fund.

EXITS Last 12 Months:

Mergers & Acquisitions

Acquired by Constellation Energy (September 2010)	Acquired by Juniper Networks (April 2010)
Acquired by Iron Mountain (February 2010)	Acquired by Telllabs (December 2009)

IPOs

(IPO August 2010)	(IPO April 2010)