“Founders are visionaries who have the audacity to innovate and the resilience to persevere. To support founders is believing in their potential to transform the world and being a reliable partner, consistently striving to uplift and complement their efforts at every step of their journey."
Vijay Reddy brings over a decade of inception and early-stage investing experience in AI and Enterprise infrastructure. He had a front-row seat to the rise of AI and has invested across the AI stack from silicon, infrastructure, data, middleware and AI-first applications. Vijay is Mayfield’s dedicated partner investing out of the $250 million AI Start fund, supporting founders at Day Zero.
As a former researcher, Vijay enjoys collaborating with technical innovators who are leveraging bold, disruptive ideas with extreme clarity of purpose to build best in class companies. With a founder-first mindset and a team-oriented focus, he tirelessly partners with inception-stage entrepreneurs to achieve product-market fit and scale. Some of his past investments include SambaNova, DataRobot, Lilt, Landing.ai, Hypersonix, Wherobots, Joby (NYSE: Joby), BabbleLabs (Acquired by Cisco)
Vijay began his career as an entrepreneur when he co-founded his first startup after dropping out of his PhD program. As an operator he held senior Business Development and Product Development roles at Broadcom and Intel where he was hired into the Accelerated Leadership Program, designed to groom the next generation of leaders.
Vijay received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with top honors from University of California, Irvine and is a Kauffman Fellow.
