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Ursheet Parikh

Ursheet Parikh

Ursheet is a proven serial entrepreneur who leads Mayfield’s Healthcare & Engineering Biology practice and also invests in the enterprise sector. Some of his current ...

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Navin Chaddha

Navin Chaddha

Top Five on Midas List 2020 » Navin leads Mayfield. Under his leadership, Mayfield has raised over $2.2 billion in new capital through eight funds ...

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Tim Chang

Tim Chang

Tim invests in the consumer sector. Some of his current investments include Grove Collaborative, TRIPP, and Tonal. Tim’s venture capital experience includes leading investments at ...

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Ursheet Parikh

Ursheet is a proven serial entrepreneur who leads Mayfield’s Healthcare & Engineering Biology practice and also invests in the enterprise sector.

Some of his current engineering biology/healthIT investments include Mammoth Biosciences, Mission Bio, Qventus, and unannounced companies in neuromodulation therapeutics and precision medicine for critical care.

Prior to joining Mayfield, he was Co-founder and CEO of StorSimple, a Mayfield portfolio company which led the category of cloud-integrated storage and was acquired by Microsoft and enabled significant revenues for Microsoft in the early days of Azure. His executive leadership experience includes serving as a GM at Microsoft and a business unit leader at Cisco, where he took the WAN acceleration product line from concept to $100M/quarter and market leadership.

Ursheet holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a bachelor’s in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, from which he received the Young Alumni Achiever award.

Navin Chaddha

Top Five on Midas List 2020 »

Navin leads Mayfield. Under his leadership, Mayfield has raised over $2.2 billion in new capital through eight funds – (six US and two dedicated India funds); expanded the investing team with world-class professionals; and assembled a comprehensive team of portfolio services executives.

Navin has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has ranked on the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors twelve times, including being named in the Top Five in 2020.

During his venture capital career, Navin has invested in over 50 companies, of which 17 have gone public and over 20 have been acquired. Navin was one of the earliest Silicon Valley investors to leverage the promise of tech in India.

As an entrepreneur, Navin has co-founded or led three startups including VXtreme: a streaming media platform, acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media; Rivio/CPA.com: a SaaS provider for small businesses, and iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ:IBEM): a streaming media content delivery network. Navin holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award.

Tim Chang

Tim invests in the consumer sector. Some of his current investments include Grove Collaborative, TRIPP, and Tonal. Tim’s venture capital experience includes leading investments at Norwest Venture Partners and Gabriel Venture Partners. His operational experience includes working in product management and engineering across Asia for Gateway, Inc. and General Motors.

Tim holds an MBA with honors from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a master’s and bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering/System Engineering from the University of Michigan.