Every Business is a Tech Business

We have partnered as early investors with hundreds of iconic enterprise entrepreneurs over our 50 year history, from Compaq, SGI, Citrix, Concur and Tibco to Marketo, ServiceMax, NUVIA and Volterra. They are helping every business become a technology business by delivering innovation across the enterprise stack, from semis through infrastructure, data, middleware and apps.

HashiCorp - Gamechanger

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Enterprise

We believe that technology forces such as AI, cloud, data, mobile and the renaissance of silicon are re-inventing the way businesses work.

Outreach

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Enterprise

We believe that technology forces such as AI, cloud, data, mobile and the renaissance of silicon are re-inventing the way businesses work.

NUVIA

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Enterprise

We believe that technology forces such as AI, cloud, data, mobile and the renaissance of silicon are re-inventing the way businesses work.

CloudSimple - Gamechanger

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Enterprise

We believe that technology forces such as AI, cloud, data, mobile and the renaissance of silicon are re-inventing the way businesses work.

Ankur Singla and Volterra logo

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Enterprise

We believe that technology forces such as AI, cloud, data, mobile and the renaissance of silicon are re-inventing the way businesses work.

Rancher Labs Sheng Liang

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Enterprise

We believe that technology forces such as AI, cloud, data, mobile and the renaissance of silicon are re-inventing the way businesses work.

Our Perspective

Viewpoint | Feb 20 2024

Partnering with Highway 9 Networks on Mobile Cloud ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jan 31 2024

The Rise of the AI Cognitive Plumbing Layer

Enterprise | AI

Viewpoint | Jan 29 2024

Partnering with Sema4.ai to Accelerate the Agent Economy

Enterprise | AI

Viewpoint | Sep 29 2023

Navin Chaddha: Helping Entrepreneurs Achieve Their Dreams

Enterprise | Company Building | Semiconductors | AI

Viewpoint | Sep 26 2023

Accelerating GenAI Adoption Through a Data Operations Cloud

Enterprise | AI

News | Sep 18 2023

Welcoming our First Dedicated Select/Spring Fund Partner Sri ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Aug 29 2023

Founding Voices: The Right Dose of Reality

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Viewpoint | Aug 9 2023

5 Questions Investors Should be Asking Inception-stage Generative ...

Enterprise | Company Building | AI

Viewpoint | Jun 21 2023

Silicon Catalyst – Fireside Chat with Navin Chaddha

Enterprise | Company Building | Semiconductors | AI

Viewpoint | Jun 14 2023

The Golden Age of Semiconductor Innovation Continues

Enterprise | Semiconductors

Viewpoint | Jun 1 2023

MindsDB: Introducing the World’s First Cloud to Serve ...

Enterprise | News | AI

Article | May 31 2023

Vartana lands a $20M investment to scale its ...

Enterprise

News | May 16 2023

Auradine Raises $81 Million in Series A Financing ...

Enterprise | News | Semiconductors

Viewpoint | Apr 25 2023

How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what ...

Enterprise | Company Building

News | Apr 4 2023

Founding Voices: Keep Your Composure, Keep the Team ...

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Viewpoint | Feb 14 2023

Founding Voices: Talk Early and Often

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Viewpoint | Feb 6 2023

Predicting NRR in 2023

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Feb 1 2023

Founding Voices: Know When to Listen to Your ...

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Viewpoint | Jan 24 2023

Partnering with Vartana to Power Frictionless B2B Sales ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Jan 17 2023

Founding Voices: Embrace Uncertainty to Find Your Own ...

Enterprise | Founding Voices

News | Dec 14 2022

LexCheck Raises $17M to Automate Common Contracting Processes

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Dec 5 2022

How Startups Can Survive The Downturn With Financial ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Entrepreneur Journey | Dec 1 2022

Taking the Heat: How Frore Systems’ New Cooling ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Dec 1 2022

Working with Mayfield: Trust, Radical Candor, and a ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Nov 15 2022

Founding Voices: Through Thick and Thin

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Article | Nov 8 2022

The Modern Identity Stack: Startup Opportunities in the ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Nov 1 2022

Founding Voices: Know the Story Behind the Product

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Viewpoint | Oct 31 2022

Founding Voices: Empowerment Drives Growth

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Viewpoint | Oct 12 2022

How BigPanda is Delivering on the Promise of ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Oct 4 2022

Founding Voices: Get Out of Your Own Way

Enterprise | Founding Voices

News | Sep 29 2022

9 Top Cloud VCs Share The Trends They’re ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Sep 27 2022

Founding Voices: Focus on Product to Rise Above ...

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Viewpoint | Sep 14 2022

Founding Voices: Culture Starts at the Top

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Viewpoint | Sep 9 2022

Founding Voices: How Markets Help Products Evolve

Enterprise | Founding Voices

Podcast | Aug 2 2022

The Top.VC Podcast | Rajeev Batra Shares Top ...

Enterprise

News | Jul 20 2022

Celebrating Crunchbase’s $50 Million Series D

Enterprise | News

News | Jun 15 2022

Cube, which wants to help finance teams plan ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | May 20 2022

Grand Keynote with Armon Dadgar & Navin Chaddha ...

Enterprise

Article | May 9 2022

Setting the Foundation for Built-to-Last Companies | TechCrunch ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Article | May 9 2022

Going from 0 to Leading Web3 Platform Company ...

Enterprise | Company Building

News | May 4 2022

Unfinished Business: Partnering with the Gigya team again ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Mar 15 2022

Partnering with DuploCloud to Deliver DevSecOps-as-a-Service for Developers

Enterprise | News

Article | Mar 1 2022

10 investors discuss the no-code and low-code landscape ...

Enterprise

Article | Jan 12 2022

AIOps Leader BigPanda Raises $190 Million at a ...

Enterprise | News

Article | Jan 12 2022

AI-Powered Talent Search Engine SeekOut Raises $115 Million ...

Enterprise | News

Entrepreneur Journey | Dec 10 2021

Rethinking Recruiting: Jerome Ternynck’s 20-Year Mission to Redefine ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

News | Dec 9 2021

HashiCorp IPO – A Playbook to Building a ...

Enterprise | News

News | Dec 1 2021

Welcome to be Acquired by Optimizely

Enterprise

Video | Oct 27 2021

From Inception to Iconic: All Raise x Mayfield

Enterprise | Company Building

Article | Sep 14 2021

Experience Marketing Platform Postal Raises $22M Series B

Enterprise | News

News | Jul 22 2021

NoSQL Database Couchbase Makes Public Debut with IPO

Enterprise | Company Building | News

Entrepreneur Journey | Jul 22 2021

How Mission & Values Set the Foundation for ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Article | Jul 20 2021

Hiring Success Platform SmartRecruiters Raises $110M Series E ...

Enterprise | News

Article | Jul 14 2021

DevRev Launches with $50 Million in Seed Funding ...

Enterprise | News

Podcast | Jul 14 2021

Mindfulness & Leadership with Nutanix & DevRev Founder ...

Conscious Capital | Enterprise | News

Article | Jun 30 2021

Versa Networks Raises $84M Series D

Enterprise | News

Article | Jun 2 2021

Sales Engagement Leader Outreach Raises $200M at a ...

Enterprise | News

Article | May 12 2021

Self-driving Truck Startup Plus to Go Public Through ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | May 5 2021

API Stack: The Billion Dollar Opportunities Redefining Infrastructure, ...

Enterprise

Podcast | Apr 1 2021

Codifying an Inclusive Company Culture with HashiCorp Co-founder ...

Conscious Capital | Enterprise

Entrepreneur Journey | Mar 24 2021

How the Rancher No-Drama Team Quietly Built a ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Mar 24 2021

Ursheet Parikh’s Cradle-to-Exit Role at Rancher Labs

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Entrepreneur Journey | Mar 24 2021

How Volterra Dreamed Big, Then Focused Its Way ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Mar 24 2021

How Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha Supported a Founder’s Quest

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Entrepreneur Journey | Mar 24 2021

How the NUVIA Dream Team Built a New ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Mar 10 2021

Insights From Partnering With Six Breakout Infrapreneurs

Enterprise | Company Building

Article | Mar 9 2021

SeekOut Raises $65M Series B

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Mar 9 2021

Welcoming Cube to Mayfield

Enterprise | News

Article | Feb 17 2021

AI Vision Cognition Provider Recogni Raises $48.9 Million ...

Enterprise | News

Entrepreneur Journey | Feb 5 2021

How Outreach Grew Into A Category-Leading SaaS Powerhouse

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Entrepreneur Journey | Jan 28 2021

Portworx’ Secret Formula for Startup Success: Sell First, ...

Enterprise | Company Building | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Jan 24 2021

Hooks and Upsell: Product and GTM Strategy for ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Jan 13 2021

Working with Mayfield: One Mark of a Great ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Entrepreneur Journey | Jan 13 2021

Qualcomm Acquires NUVIA for $1.4B

Enterprise | News | Gamechangers

Entrepreneur Journey | Jan 7 2021

F5 Networks Acquires Volterra for $500M

Enterprise | News | Gamechangers

Video | Jan 7 2021

Open Core Summit 2020 Keynote: HashiCorp CEO Dave ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Video | Nov 19 2020

VC & Entrepreneurship Trends

Conscious Capital | Enterprise

Entrepreneur Journey | Oct 22 2020

How A Mid-Career Bet On Entrepreneurship Turned Into ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Oct 15 2020

Eight Opportunities to Build Iconic Enterprise Tech Companies

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Oct 6 2020

Turning Learning into Impact with the Defining Customer ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Sep 24 2020

From Idea to Milestone: NUVIA $240 Million Series ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Sep 16 2020

The Portworx Journey

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Sep 10 2020

Enterprise Tech in 2020

Enterprise | Company Building

Entrepreneur Journey | Sep 1 2020

The HashiCorp Journey: The Rise of a Cloud ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Aug 27 2020

Let’s Make ‘May I See Your Driver’s License’ ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Aug 18 2020

Transforming Ideas into Iconic Companies: Welcoming our new ...

Enterprise | News

Entrepreneur Journey | Jul 8 2020

The Rancher Journey

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Article | Jul 6 2020

Volterra Wins Frost & Sullivan 2020 Tech Innovation ...

Enterprise | News

Article | Jun 17 2020

Outreach Closes $50 Million Round; Hires Melissa Fisher ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Jun 9 2020

Navin Chaddha Shares Perspective on COVID-19 Impact to ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | May 26 2020

Navin Chaddha Shares Enterprise Investing Themes in Extra ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | May 22 2020

Resilience Spotlights: Fireside Chat with HashiCorp CEO Dave ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Article | May 5 2020

Postal.io Emerges from Stealth with $9M Series A ...

Enterprise | News

Article | May 1 2020

Navin Shares his View on Investment Trends

Enterprise

Podcast | Apr 29 2020

Navin Shares the Mayfield View on the New ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Apr 10 2020

Mayfield CXO Survey: Post COVID-19 Impacts to IT

Enterprise

Article | Mar 31 2020

Turbo Systems Welcomes Looker Veteran Jen Grant as ...

Enterprise | News

Article | Mar 31 2020

Rancher Raises $40M Series D

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Mar 31 2020

Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of CloudGenix

Enterprise | News

Entrepreneur Journey | Mar 18 2020

Dancing with Giants: How CloudSimple Succeeded Among the ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Article | Mar 17 2020

HashiCorp Raises $175M Series E

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Mar 9 2020

Trust & Brand: How Chris Morgan Helped Build ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Feb 24 2020

From $5 Million to $1 Billion: How Tableau’s ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Article | Feb 20 2020

Inside Outreach: The Hard-Charging Cloud Startup Thriving In ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Feb 3 2020

From Good to Great: How Go-to-Market Leaders Transform ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Jan 28 2020

The New Era of Data Privacy

Enterprise | News

Article | Jan 28 2020

SECURITI.ai Raises $50M Series B

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Dec 14 2019

How a Crisis can Turn a CEO into ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Dec 11 2019

The Renaissance of Silicon: Opportunities and Challenges for ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Dec 2 2019

Building a People-First Community of B2B Go-To-Market Leaders

Enterprise

Article | Nov 21 2019

BigPanda Raises $50M Series C

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Nov 18 2019

CloudSimple Acquired By Google Cloud

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Nov 18 2019

Partnering with a Dream Team to Take on ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Nov 7 2019

Dev.to: Authentic Founders with a Bold Mission and ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Nov 4 2019

A 7-Year Relationship With Ankur Singla Turns Into ...

Enterprise | News

Article | Oct 31 2019

Crunchbase Raises $30M Series C

Enterprise | News

Article | Oct 17 2019

Announcing the Second Female Founders Competition

Conscious Capital | Enterprise | News

Video | Sep 13 2019

People First Network | HashiCorp Co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto: ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Video | Sep 13 2019

People First Network | Moat Co-founder Jonah Goodhart: ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Video | Sep 13 2019

People First Network | Elastica & Securiti Founder ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Sep 10 2019

Our People-First Philosophy in Action

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Sep 7 2019

How to be Successful with Distributed Teams

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Aug 22 2019

The Renaissance of Silicon Will Create Industry Giants

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jun 28 2019

The Secret Behind Slack’s Runaway Success

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jun 28 2019

Focusing on Company Values with InfluxData CEO, Evan ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Jun 27 2019

Celebrating the Latest Milestone in Our Decade-Long Partnership ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Jun 13 2019

Scaling High-Performance Technical Teams with Portworx

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jun 5 2019

PagerDuty IPO And The Next Billion Dollar Category: ...

Enterprise

Article | Jun 4 2019

WorkSpan Raises $27M Series B

Enterprise | News

Article | May 29 2019

SmartRecruiters Raises $50M Series D to Deliver Hiring ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | May 17 2019

From Compliant to Inclusive – Accessibility at SmartRecruiters

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | May 10 2019

What Surviving An Arctic Snowstorm Taught Me About ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Apr 19 2019

Outreach & Mayfield: Conversations in Diversity & Inclusion

Conscious Capital | Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Apr 17 2019

The Four T’s: a PM-turned-VC’s framework for evaluating ...

Enterprise

Article | Apr 16 2019

Outreach Raises $114M Series E, Becomes a Unicorn

Enterprise | News

Article | Jan 12 2019

Mayfield Gets a New Partner as it Celebrates ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Jan 9 2019

Expanding our Team with Enterprise Leader Patrick Salyer

Enterprise | News

Article | Nov 1 2018

HashiCorp Raises $100 Million in Series D Funding

Enterprise | News

Article | Oct 17 2018

Couchbase and Poshmark Land on Forbes Next-Billion Dollar ...

Enterprise | Consumer | News

Viewpoint | Sep 25 2018

The Transportation Revolution

Enterprise

Article | Jul 11 2018

Thoma Bravo Acquires Majority Stake in Cybersecurity Innovator ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Jun 27 2018

Building A Next-Gen Cyber-Security Company

Enterprise | News

Article | Apr 29 2018

Sales Engagement Leader Outreach Raises $65 Million Series ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Mar 14 2018

Rajeev Batra Provides Insight into Skilljar Investment

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Mar 12 2018

Ursheet Parikh Provides Insight on Nutanix-Netsil Acquisition

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Feb 21 2018

The Drilling Rigs of the Big Data Age

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jan 8 2018

Digital Identity Drives Gigya’s DNA of Success

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Dec 14 2017

Navin Chaddha on the Journey with Brighter

Enterprise | Human & Planetary Health | News

Viewpoint | Nov 29 2017

Navin Chaddha on a People-First View of the ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Oct 23 2017

Saas and Investing Insights

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Oct 11 2017

ShiftLeft Gets Down to the Core of Today’s ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Sep 26 2017

Navin Chaddha on the partnership with Gigya

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Sep 20 2017

Application Observability with Kubernetes

Enterprise

Article | Aug 23 2017

Navin Chaddha on WorkSpan’s Breakthrough Marketing Network

Enterprise | News

Article | Jul 26 2017

A People-First View of Investing in Innovation

Enterprise | Consumer | Human & Planetary Health

News | Jun 6 2017

Navin Chaddha on Building CyberResilience in a Post-Hacked ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jun 1 2017

Tim Chang Reflects on the Journey with Moat

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Apr 25 2017

Tim Chang on Industry Predictions

Enterprise | Consumer

Viewpoint | Apr 13 2017

Rajeev Batra on How Crunchbase is the Master ...

Enterprise | News

Entrepreneur Journey | Mar 20 2017

Minting a New Currency for Digital Advertising

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Entrepreneur Journey | Mar 20 2017

A Security Merger in the Cloud

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Entrepreneur Journey | Mar 20 2017

From White Vans to SmartVans—Leading the Field of ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Entrepreneur Journey | Mar 20 2017

It Takes Vision to Rewrite the Rules of ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Viewpoint | Feb 23 2017

It’s Called Virtual “Reality” for a Reason

Enterprise | Consumer

Viewpoint | Nov 14 2016

ServiceMax and GE Digital – Service Eating the ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Nov 14 2016

Latest Mayfield Milestone: GE Digital Acquires Field Service ...

Enterprise | News

Viewpoint | Apr 20 2016

On Big Ideas, Serial Entrepreneurs & Marathons

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jan 11 2016

The Rewarding Journey of Championing a Serial Entrepreneur

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Dec 8 2015

The Attention Economy and the War Over Measurement

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Oct 13 2015

Does the world need another professional social network?

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Aug 17 2015

Navin Chaddha Shares Mayfield View on Containers

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Apr 5 2015

The Dawn Of The Age Of The Software ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Mar 18 2012

The Mobile Revolution: Startup Ideas For Changing The ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Mar 6 2012

Big Data Meets Ad Tech

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Aug 30 2014

Five Factors in Building Giants of the Big ...

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Apr 5 2014

These three trends will transform how employees use ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jun 30 2013

A ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ approach to venture capital

Enterprise | Consumer

Viewpoint | Jun 22 2013

Finding the next AWS, VMWare or EMC

Enterprise

Viewpoint | May 5 2013

Embracing a Mobile-First Mentality for a Brave, New ...

Enterprise | Consumer

Viewpoint | Nov 7 2012

From Mad Men to Big Bang Theory: The ...

Enterprise

Viewpoint | Jun 18 2012

Solving the pain points of mobile developers

Enterprise

Investments

NASDAQ: HCP | Partnered Early

Partnered Early

Partnered Early

NASDAQ: MKTO / Acquired by Vista Equity Partners | Partnered Early

Seekout Logo

Partnered at Inception

NASDAQ: BASE | Partnered Early

Partnered at Inception

Acquired by GE Digital / PTC | Partnered Early

Partnered Early

Acquired by Oracle | Partnered Early

Acquired by SUSE | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by F5 Networks | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by Google | Partnered at Inception

Portworx logo

Acquired by Pure Storage | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by SAP | Partnered Early

3Com logo

Former NASDAQ: COMS

NYSE: PAR / Acquired by HP

Partnered Early

Appify logo

Partnered at Inception

Acquired by PeopleSoft/Oracle

Partnered at Inception

Partnered at Inception

Acquired by Cigna | Partnered at Inception

Former NASDAQ: BVSN

Acquired by Thoma Bravo | Partnered at Inception

Citrix logo

NASDAQ: CTXS

Merged with Hewlett Packard

NASDAQ: CNQR / Acquired by SAP

Partnered Early

Cube logo

Partnered Early

DEV logo

Partnered Early

DevRev logo

Partnered at Inception

DuploCloud Logo

Partnered Early

Acquired by Blue Coat Systems / Symantec | Partnered at Inception

Partnered Early

Partnered at Inception

Immersa

Partnered at Inception

Partnered at Inception

Acquired by EMC

Partnered Early

Partnered Early

Mobile 365 logo

Acquired by Sybase

Nuance logo

NASDAQ: NUAN / Acquired by Microsoft

Partnered at Inception

Perbit Networks logo

Acquired by Juniper

Partnered at Inception

Acquired by Cisco

PureSoftware logo

Former NASDAQ: PRSW

NASDAQ: QMCO

Acquired by Google

Partnered Early

Partnered at Inception

Former NASDAQ: RBAK

Acquired by Home Depot

Partnered at Inception

NYSE: RUBI | Partnered Early

Partnered at Inception

Partnered at Inception

SGI logo

Incubated at Mayfield; Former NASDAQ: SGI

Partnered Early

Acquired by Microsoft | Partnered Early

SwiftStack logo

Acquired by NVIDIA | Partnered Early

Acquired by Compaq/HP

IPO India: TEJASNET.NS | Partnered Early

NASDAQ: TIBX / Acquired by Vista Equity Partners

Partnered at Inception

Former NYSE: VNTV

Partnered Early

Versa Networks logo

Partnered Early

Former NASDAQ: WEBM

Acquired by Tellabs | Partnered Early

Workspan logo

Partnered Early

Acquired by Citrix Systems