I’m excited to welcome Pradeep Sindhu as a Venture Advisor to Mayfield. I had the privilege of working with him firsthand as a founding investor and board member for a decade through the Fungible journey from its inception.
Pradeep is a renowned technologist and entrepreneur whose work has helped shape the foundations of the modern Internet. He is the founder of Juniper Networks, the company widely recognized for inventing and industrializing silicon-based routers, an invention that played a central role in bringing about the Internet age. Over nearly three decades at Juniper, he held key roles including founding CEO and Chairman, Vice Chairman and CTO, with a hand in the inception, design, and development of virtually every product Juniper shipped from 1996 through 2015. He later co-founded Fungible, a data center technology company pioneering data processing units, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2023 to accelerate Azure datacenter innovation.
A member of the National Academy of Engineering with more than 200 patents to his name, Pradeep brings incredible depth as a builder, inventor, and founder. He’s someone who has not only created category-defining companies but has fundamentally advanced the state of the art in silicon, systems, and networking. He will work with the Mayfield team and advise our founders on semiconductors and systems, building deep-tech companies, and scaling the foundational infrastructure powering the AI era.
We look forward to his contributions to helping Mayfield and our portfolio companies. Please join me in welcoming Pradeep to the Mayfield team.
