Mayfield India
We have been investing in India since 2006 and have a total of $219 million under management. We are currently investing out of the $108 million Mayfield India II, our second dedicated India fund.
We invest in India.
We are a technology focused early-stage (Seed to Series A) venture capital fund that invests in both enterprise and consumer companies. We’re guided by our ‘People First philosophy’ and our investment team operates from a shared set of beliefs and partners for the long term with entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas.
The investment team of Mayfield India has extensive first-hand experience with companies and markets in India, allowing us to track trends, assess opportunities, and share strategic resources and information.
Investments
Mayfield India Team
Navin Chaddha
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Navin Chaddha
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 thirteen times, including being named in the Top Five in 2020. His investments have created over $60 billion in equity value and over 40,000 jobs.
During his venture capital career, Navin has invested in over 50 companies, of which 17 have gone public and 25 have been acquired. Navin was one of the earliest Silicon Valley investors to leverage the promise of tech in India.
Navin is an active philanthropist who supports education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and food scarcity groups.
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.
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Vikram Godse
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Vikram Godse
Vikram has been an active venture investor in India over the last 17 years. He has successfully invested in — and had exits from — his early- and growth-stage investments in fintech, SaaS, education and logistics
Prior to founding Mayfield India, Vikram was a founding member of JM Financial Investment Managers Limited, a broad-based, multi-sector private equity fund. While there, Vikram helped raise the fund and led some of the key investments and served on several boards.
Prior to joining JM Financial Investment Managers Limited, Vikram worked for Cisco’s investment arm, where he led investments in India. Prior to that, he was involved in one of the earliest venture capital funds in India, Infinity Venture Fund. Vikram’s prior experience includes working at Chase and Barclays Capital as part of their investment banking practices in Mumbai for four years.
Vikram received his Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and a Master’s in Management Studies from the University of Bombay.
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Nikhil Khattau
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Nikhil Khattau
Nikhil is an experienced investor, entrepreneur, and banker. Nikhil has been leading investments since founding Mayfield India in 2007. As an entrepreneur, he was founding CEO of SUN F&C, one of India’s first privately owned mutual fund houses. His investment banking experience was with EY’s corporate Finance Group in London and New York.
Nikhil is a Chartered Accountant from the ICAEW and received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Mumbai.
Nikhil is a seasoned master scuba diver and an enthusiastic marine conservationist.
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Zareer Shroff
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Zareer Shroff
Zareer has been a part of the investment team at Mayfield India since 2014 working on investments across the education, consumer media, logistics, fintech, and healthcare verticals. Prior to joining Mayfield India, Zareer was part of the investment team at GenNext Ventures, the Venture Capital arm of Reliance Industries, where he focused on big data, security, and technology sectors. Before GenNext, he was with one of India’s leading audit and assurance firms Kalyaniwalla & Mistry.
At Mayfield, Zareer has worked on multiple portfolio companies including Amagi, LEAP, Simplilearn, Strata and M1xchange amongst others.
Zareer is an Associate Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Commerce from the University of Mumbai.
Ketaki Suklikar
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Ketaki Suklikar
Ketaki oversees all legal and regulatory aspects of Mayfield India operations, and her primary focus is deal structuring and execution.
Prior to Mayfield India, Ketaki was General Counsel, India, for Acumen Fund, a global social venture fund investing in early stage social enterprises in India. Prior to Acumen, Ketaki was a corporate and transactional lawyer with Wadia Ghandy & Co., a full service law firm in Mumbai, where she led several cross-border transactions across sectors.
Ketaki holds an LLM in International Commercial Law from Kings College, University of London and an LLB from ILS Law College, Pune, India.
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