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Entrepreneurs can learn from the wisdom of the trail of those that have done it before. Get inspired by rules of the road for building iconic companies.

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Entrepreneurs can learn from the wisdom of the trail of those that have done it before. Get inspired by rules of the road for building iconic companies.

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Gamechangers

Entrepreneurs can learn from the wisdom of the trail of those that have done it before. Get inspired by rules of the road for building iconic companies.

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Gamechangers

Entrepreneurs can learn from the wisdom of the trail of those that have done it before. Get inspired by rules of the road for building iconic companies.

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Gamechangers

Entrepreneurs can learn from the wisdom of the trail of those that have done it before. Get inspired by rules of the road for building iconic companies.

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Gamechangers

Entrepreneurs can learn from the wisdom of the trail of those that have done it before. Get inspired by rules of the road for building iconic companies.

Partnered Early

The HashiCorp Journey: The Rise of a Cloud Powerhouse

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

Gosh(Posh), It’s been a Ten Year Journey to Poshmark’s IPO

Consumer | News

PARTNERED EARLY

How Mission & Values Set the Foundation for Couchbase’s Success

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

How the NUVIA Dream Team Built a New Age Silicon Company

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered Early

Transportation Will Change; Core Values Won’t at Lyft

Consumer | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

How Volterra Dreamed Big, Then Focused Its Way to 300% Growth

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

Portworx’ Secret Formula for Startup Success: Sell First, Build Later

Enterprise | Company Building | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

How the Rancher No-Drama Team Quietly Built a Kubernetes Leader

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

How A Mid-Career Bet On Entrepreneurship Turned Into Industry Defining Success

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

Dancing with Giants: How CloudSimple Succeeded Among the Titans of Tech

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered Early

How Outreach Grew Into A Category-Leading SaaS Powerhouse

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

Rethinking Recruiting: Jerome Ternynck’s 20-Year Mission to Redefine “Hiring Success”

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

Saving Billions of Lives with Next Generation CRISPR Company Mammoth

Human & Planetary Health

Partnered at Inception

Taking the Heat: How Frore Systems’ New Cooling Chip Unleashes Your ...

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

KiwiCo: Doing Well While Doing Good

Consumer | Gamechangers

Partnered Early

Improving Planetary Health with Lyndon and Peter Rive and Elon Musk

Consumer | Company Building | Gamechangers

Partnered Early

Resilience Spotlights: Fireside Chat with Phil Fernandez

Enterprise | Company Building

Partnered Early

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

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered Early

Minting a New Currency for Digital Advertising

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

A Security Merger in the Cloud

Enterprise | Gamechangers

Partnered at Inception

Three Pivots to Better Healthcare

Human & Planetary Health | Gamechangers

Partnered Early

India’s Largest Matrimony Marketplace Shows How Company Building is a Marathon

Consumer | Gamechangers

Partnered Early

How Tejas Networks Built Local and Thought Global

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NASDAQ: HCP | Partnered Early

Applications infrastructure suite.

Company Leadership

David McJannet, CEO
Mitchell Hashimoto, Co-founder
Armon Dadgar, Co-founder

Mayfield Team

Navin Chaddha

Sector

Enterprise

Status

Milestone

Initial Investment

Early

NASDAQ: LYFT | Partnered Early

Partnered Early

The leading sales and customer engagement platform.

Company Leadership

Manuel Medina, CEO & Co-founder
Andrew Kinzer, Co-founder
Gordon Hempton, Co-founder
Wes Hather, Co-founder

Mayfield Team

Rajeev Batra

Sector

Enterprise

Status

Active

Initial Investment

Early

NASDAQ: POSH / Acquired by NAVER | Partnered at Inception

The largest social marketplace for fashion.

Company Leadership

Manish Chandra, CEO & Co-founder
Tracy Sun, Co-founder
Chetan Pungaliya, Co-founder
Gautam Golwala, Co-founder

Mayfield Team

Navin Chaddha

Sector

Consumer

Status

Milestone

Initial Investment

Inception

Partnered at Inception

Biotech company that has developed the world’s first and only CRISPR-based detection platform capable of sensing any biomarker or disease with DNA/RNA.

Company Leadership

Trevor Martin, CEO & Co-founder
Janice Chen, Co-founder
Jennifer Doudna, Co-founder
Lucas Harrington, Co-founder

Mayfield Team

Ursheet Parikh

Sector

Human & Planetary Health

Status

Active

Initial Investment

Inception

Partnered Early

Algorithmic event management.

Company Leadership

Assaf Resnick, CEO & Co-founder
Elik Eizenberg, Co-founder

Mayfield Team

Patrick Salyer

Sector

Enterprise

Status

Active

Initial Investment

Early

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

NASDAQ: SCTY / Acquired by Tesla | Partnered Early

Partnered at Inception

AI-powered talent search engine.

Company Leadership

Anoop Gupta, Co-founder & CEO
Aravind Bala, Co-founder & CTO
John Tippett, Co-founder & Head of Product
Vikas Manocha, Co-founder & Head of Engineering

Mayfield Team

Rajeev Batra and Navin Chaddha

Sector

Enterprise

Status

Active

Initial Investment

Inception

NASDAQ: BASE | Partnered Early

The world’s first engagement database software company.

Company Leadership

Matt Cain, CEO

Mayfield Team

Patrick Salyer

Sector

Enterprise

Status

Milestone

Initial Investment

Early

Partnered at Inception

The leading talent acquisition platform for enterprises.

Company Leadership

Jerome Ternynck, CEO & Founder

Mayfield Team

Rajeev Batra

Sector

Enterprise

Status

Active

Initial Investment

Inception

Acquired by GE Digital / PTC | Partnered Early

Partnered Early

Blockchain developer platform.

Company Leadership

Nikil Viswanathan, Co-founder & CEO

Joe Lau, Co-founder & CTO

Mayfield Team

Navin Chaddha

Sector

Enterprise

Status

Active

Initial Investment

Early

Partnered at Inception

Autonomous trucking technology

Company Leadership

David Liu, Founder & CEO

Hao Zheng, Co-founder & CTO

Mayfield Team

Navin Chaddha

Sector

Consumer

Status

Active

Initial Investment

Inception

Acquired by Oracle | Partnered Early

Acquired by SUSE | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by F5 Networks | Partnered at Inception

Distributed cloud platform for distributed applications.

Company Leadership

Ankur Singla, CEO & Co-founder
Harshad Nakil, Co-founder

Mayfield Team

Navin Chaddha

Sector

Enterprise

Status

Milestone

Initial Investment

Inception

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by Google | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by Pure Storage | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by SAP | Partnered Early

Former NASDAQ: COMS

NYSE: PAR / Acquired by HP

NASDAQ: AMGN

Former NASDAQ: APPB

Acquired by PeopleSoft/Oracle

Acquired by Infogrames

Acquired by Intel | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by Cigna | Partnered at Inception

Former NASDAQ: BVSN

Acquired by Thoma Bravo | Partnered at Inception

NASDAQ: CTXS

Merged with Hewlett Packard

NASDAQ: CNQR / Acquired by SAP

Acquired by Blue Coat Systems / Symantec | Partnered at Inception

Former NYSE: GENE

Acquired by HP

NASDAQ: ISRG

Acquired by EMC

IPO India: MATRIMONY.NS | Partnered Early

Former NASDAQ: MLNM

Acquired by Sybase

NASDAQ: NUAN / Acquired by Microsoft

Acquired by Juniper

Acquired by LinkedIn | Partnered at Inception

Acquired by Cisco

Former NASDAQ: PRSW

NASDAQ: QMCO

Acquired by Google

Former NASDAQ: QUNR

Former NASDAQ: RBAK

Acquired by Home Depot

NYSE: RUBI | Partnered Early

Incubated at Mayfield; Former NASDAQ: SGI

Acquired by Microsoft | Partnered Early

Acquired by NVIDIA | Partnered Early

Acquired by Compaq/HP

IPO India: TEJASNET.NS | Partnered Early

NASDAQ: TIBX / Acquired by Vista Equity Partners

Former NYSE: VNTV

Former NASDAQ: WEBM

Acquired by Tellabs | Partnered Early

Acquired by Citrix Systems

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As a venture firm with over 50 years of experience, where we have invested in over 550 companies, of which 120 have had IPOs and over 225 have been acquired, we’ve seen what it takes to go from concept to iconic company. Here’s what we’ve learned along the way.

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The Optimist’s Playbook

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Human & Planetary Health | Company Building

Article | May 9 2022

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Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Mar 24 2022

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Video | Oct 27 2021

From Inception to Iconic: All Raise x Mayfield

Enterprise | Company Building

Viewpoint | Aug 27 2021

What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?

Company Building

Podcast | Aug 3 2021

Building a People First Culture | Outlier Academy

Consumer | Company Building

News | Jul 22 2021

NoSQL Database Couchbase Makes Public Debut with IPO

Enterprise | Company Building | News

Video | Jun 18 2021

5 Essential Moments in Building a Company

Company Building | Human & Planetary Health

Video | May 27 2021

Collision: Building the Zone of Trust

Consumer | Company Building

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Conscious Capital | Company Building

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Video | Apr 21 2021

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Enterprise | Company Building

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Enterprise | Company Building | Gamechangers

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Enterprise | Company Building

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Enterprise | Company Building

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Enterprise | Company Building

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Enterprise Tech in 2020

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Human & Planetary Health | Company Building

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Enterprise | Company Building

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Thriving in Tough Times: Making Remote Meetings Successful

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Resilience Spotlights: Fireside Chat with John Chambers

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What Makes A Great Startup Board Member

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Conscious Capital | Company Building

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The value of long-term relationships

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Bootstrapping and Taking The Long View

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