“I partner with entrepreneurs who want to change the way people work, live, and play. I believe that company building is a marathon, not a sprint, and that crisis can be an opportunity for the bold.”
Navin leads Mayfield as Managing Partner. Under his leadership, Mayfield has raised eight U.S. funds and guided over 80 companies to positive outcomes. He 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 sixteen times, including being named in the Top Five in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Navin’s investments have created over $120 billion in equity value and over 40,000 jobs.
During his venture capital career, Navin has invested in over 60 companies, of which 18 have gone public and 27 have been acquired. Navin was one of the earliest Silicon Valley investors to leverage the promise of tech in India. He is Vice Chair of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund and advisor to Neythri.org.
Navin is an active philanthropist dedicated to supporting education, expanding opportunities for underrepresented communities, and addressing food insecurity.
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.
Distinguished Alumni
Acquired by Microsoft
NASDAQ: IBEM
The Midas List
Young Global Leader
Navin Chaddha
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Consumer
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Consumer
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Solar utility pioneer.
Navin Chaddha
Consumer
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Early
Navin Chaddha
Semiconductors
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Inception
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
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Inception
A leading SD-WAN solution for modern applications, including the Cloud.
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
Milestone
Inception
VMware-as-a-service in public clouds.
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
Milestone
A technology leader in data services for containers.
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
Milestone
Inception
Akeana’s world class solution leverages the popular RISC-V architecture by providing performance cores, with rich feature sets, for the widest range of market implementations possible.
Navin Chaddha
AI, Semiconductors
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Navin Chaddha
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Navin Chaddha
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Highly scalable, secure, and energy-efficient infrastructure for world-leading blockchains, security, and privacy applications.
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
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Navin Chaddha
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Early
Navin Chaddha
AI
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Health insurance platform that transforms passive patients into healthcare consumers.
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
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Navin Chaddha
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Inception
Patrick Salyer
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Cloud security pioneer.
Navin Chaddha
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Inception
Navin Chaddha
AI, Semiconductors
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Inception
A leader in Customer Identity Management.
Enterprise
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Navin Chaddha
AI, Enterprise
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Inception
Pioneer in online matchmaking and marriage services.
Navin Chaddha
Consumer
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An open-source platform that enables developers to integrate machine learning into applications.
Navin Chaddha
Sri Pangulur
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Navin Chaddha
AI, Enterprise
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Inception
Navin Chaddha
AI
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Mobile news reader.
Navin Chaddha
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Addressing the needs of next generation data centers through the advancement of optical networking and DSP technology.
Navin Chaddha
Inception
Navin Chaddha
AI, Enterprise
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Inception
Navin Chaddha
AI, Enterprise
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Inception
Rajeev Batra
AI, Enterprise
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At Inception
Navin Chaddha
AI, Enterprise
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Hybrid cloud storage leader.
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
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Early
Hybrid-cloud data management platform.
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
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Early
Leading optical networking products provider.
Navin Chaddha
Enterprise
Milestone
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