I’ve known Vishal Sikka for 25 years. At Mayfield, we invest in people first, and the best partnerships are built over the long term.
When Vishal shared his vision of the agentic AI era for enterprises with us, we immediately knew he was the kind of founder we wanted to partner with at inception.
He architected SAP HANA as CTO. He was a member of the executive board at SAP. After that, he led Infosys as CEO, where he built their AI platform and made bold AI bets, years before it was obvious. Few founders have built and run enterprise software and services at this scale.
Today Hang Ten Systems comes out of stealth, and we’re excited to lead their $32 million seed round.
Most enterprises are taking on the cost and risk of AI without the benefit. For decades, they’ve adapted off-the-shelf software through endless cycles of configuration, customization, integration, and testing. Changing enterprise software has been slow and expensive. Generative AI breaks that model.
Hang Ten offers a different operating model: software built, changed, and run continuously, at a fraction of the cost and time. Agentic code generation collapses the cost of building bespoke enterprise capability, and Hang Ten knows how to deliver specialized capabilities across SAP migrations, finance, HR, and software development.
Hang Ten is already working with marquee customers, including Siemens Energy, on AI-native project delivery. And Vishal is joined by a leadership team that has built enterprise systems at a global scale: Navin Budhiraja, Sanjay Rajagopalan, and Tao Liu.
Within a few years, the gap between enterprises that use AI to real advantage and those that don’t will define entire industries. Hang Ten is focused on enterprise transformations to put companies on the right side of that line.
