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Rajeev Batra
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Rajeev Batra
Rajeev Batra is an experienced investor and former enterprise software entrepreneur and executive. He helps lead Mayfield’s enterprise practice, focusing on Cloud and SaaS, and engages deeply with entrepreneurs on company building from the earliest stages. He was an Entrepreneur and Operator living and breathing Enterprise Software before entering Venture Capital. At Mayfield, he has had a front-row seat to the trend of SaaS growing from systems of record to systems of engagement/action, by partnering with the founders of industry leading companies such as Marketo, Outreach, ServiceMax, SmartRecruiters, Crunchbase, Skilljar and WideOrbit.
Rajeev has earned the reputation as the entrepreneur’s first call by practicing radical candor & transparency, empathy, trust and a high level of engagement. As a fervent believer of ”the more I learn, the less I know” maxim he is constantly looking to challenge the status quo starting with himself, and has witnessed that great things happen when people with diverse backgrounds, from different fields and ideas converge to solve big problems. The role of luck in one’s life is not lost on him either.
In partnering with entrepreneurs, Rajeev believes he has found his Ikigai (the Japanese concept of the reason for being), which is to help people. Having grown up with limited financial resources but abundant support from incredible parents and a world class education, Rajeev is a big advocate of “equalizing the playing field” by helping people everywhere gain access to opportunity and unleashing the human potential. Having a son with a life debilitating disorder, Mecp2 Duplication Syndrome, has only brought this life purpose together for Rajeev and his family. Having lived in 24 homes, 13 cities, 6 countries and 3 continents he has learned the power of thinking differently, grit, optimism, and empathy as core principles to creating a better world.
His operational experience includes working at startups and industry leaders in sales, marketing, product, and technical roles. Three of these companies went public and were later acquired: Siebel Systems, Scopus Technology, and Open Environment Corporation. He was also on the founding team of NetNumina Solutions, an IT consulting firm, which was acquired by Keane/NTT Data. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, where he serves on the Board of Visitors of the A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Rajeev has varying yet obsessive interests in Art, Design, History, Music, Evolution, Meditation, Food and Wine and is an ardent believer in the role of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and duality of most things in life.
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Tejas Maniar
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Tejas Maniar
Tejas Maniar invests in the enterprise sector and also leads Mayfield’s talent function.
He is a proven operating executive. At Mayfield, he partners closely with companies on their strategies for leadership, hiring, and human capital. He serves as a board observer on SmartRecruiters, and Mammoth Biosciences. Prior to Mayfield, he worked at Google where he led teams in strategy and analytics, as well as a special projects team for the CEO. He spent his early career in executive search, management consulting, and as part of the founding team of an IT consulting startup that was acquired.
Tejas holds an MBA in Finance and Strategy from Case Western Reserve’s Weatherhead School of Management, and a BS in Management Science from the University of California, San Diego.
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Ursheet Parikh
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Ursheet Parikh
Ursheet invests in Infrastructure Software and co-leads Mayfield’s Engineering Biology investment practice.
His investments in the enterprise sector include include Versa Networks (Security and SD-WAN), ShiftLeft (Application Security), Rancher Labs (Cloud Computing platform acquired by SUSE), CloudGenix (SD-WAN platform acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and Netsil (Application Observability platform acquired by Nutanix).
Ursheet’s investments in engineering biology and healthcare include Mammoth Biosciences (CRISPR), Mission Bio (Single Cell Sequencing, Oncology), Qventus (Healthcare AI), Endpoint Health (Critical hospital care), Nēsos (Immunology, Neurology) and an unannounced company in precision diagnostics for maternal and fetal health in Healthcare & Engineering Biology.
Prior to Mayfield, Ursheet had an operating career as a proven repeat entrepreneur and executive at Cisco and Microsoft. Ursheet was co-founder & CEO of StorSimple – the leading cloud-integrated storage company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2012.
Ursheet holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, from which he received the Young Alumni Achiever award in 2015.
Ursheet is passionate about accelerating healthcare innovation and transforming college education where his family foundation is focused.
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Priya Saiprasad
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Priya Saiprasad
Priya is passionate about partnering with ground-breaking entrepreneurs in enterprise software. Most recently, she was a founding member of M12 Ventures leading investments in AI and analytics enabled software companies. Previously, she was part of Square’s Corporate Development and Strategy team, where she led several acquisitions in the mobile payments, SMB software, and AI and ML spaces. She started her career as an Investment Banking Analyst for UBS.
Her prior investments include Element AI, Go1, LoginRadius, Skedulo, Workboard and Bonsai, which was acquired by Microsoft.
Priya’s industry visibility and track record earned her a spot in the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 venture capital list. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration and graduated with highest honors from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. In her spare time, Priya enjoys hip-hop dancing, yoga, and eating her way through all the restaurants in San Francisco.
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Patrick Salyer
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Patrick Salyer
As a Partner at Mayfield, Patrick invests in the enterprise sector, focusing on middleware and API businesses. He believes people matter most, and his investment philosophy starts with building trusted relationships with founders. He helps entrepreneurs by coaching on the CEO growth journey, company building, and go to market strategy.
Patrick brings more than a decade of enterprise leadership experience to Mayfield. He is the former CEO of Mayfield portfolio company Gigya, customer identity and access management leader, which was acquired by SAP. As a first-time CEO who built Gigya into a successful enterprise company, he brings a company building playbook which can serve as a model for entrepreneurs. His operational expertise includes successfully navigating multiple product pivots, establishing a new market category, and scaling to more than $100M ARR and hundreds of employees. He has proven go-to-market expertise, having built global inside and field sales models, and achieved high growth rates.
Patrick holds a BA from Harvard University.
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Vivek Saraswat
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Vivek Saraswat
Vivek is an experienced investor and product leader in enterprise infrastructure and product development software.
Vivek brings deep product management experience in commercial and open-source ecosystems at both early startups and large enterprises. Vivek launched Docker’s primary enterprise product and grew to hundreds of customers and eight figures revenue. Prior to that, he launched the Storage for Cloud Native Applications initiative at VMware and built new storage features at Amazon Web Services. In a previous life, Vivek was an early engineer at Solexel, a venture-backed solar power startup, and managed semiconductor partnerships at Applied Materials.
Vivek received his BS and MS in Materials Science and Engineering and his MBA from Stanford University. In his spare time, he enjoys singing in both a cappella groups and rock bands.
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