Mayfield

Mayfield is one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture firms, founded in 1969 in Menlo Park and managing around $3B with $3B+ allocated to AI investments. The thesis is people-first, with 70 percent of cheques deployed at company inception as the first institutional capital. Across 896 investments and 550+ companies, the firm has logged 120 IPOs, 225+ acquisitions, and 12 unicorns. Notable holdings include HashiCorp in cloud infrastructure, Securiti in AI governance (acquired for $1.725B), Lyft, Poshmark, and Rhoda AI in physical AI. Semiconductor and AI infrastructure exposure is selective.