“I partner with founders deeply and early in the company life cycle on groundbreaking products that require deep expertise and focus on generational technology and market trends.”
Ursheet invests in AI, Enterprise Infrastructure and Human & Planetary Health. Ursheet partners with founders deeply and early in the company life cycle on groundbreaking products that require deep expertise and focus on generational technology and market trends.
Ursheet’s current founder partnerships include Balbix (AI-powered Security Exposure Management), Chemix (Gen AI designed Batteries), Highway 9 Networks (Mobile Cloud for Enterprise AI), Mammoth Biosciences (Leading Gene-Editing CRISPR Platform – Unicorn), Mirvie (Predict and Prevent Preterm Birth with mRNA Tests), Qventus (AI Nurse and Healthcare Operations Teammates), Qwiet.AI (Code Analysis for Security and Gen-AI based Autofix), Stealth Company (Gen AI accelerated small molecule therapeutic platform), Stealth Company (Open Source Platform for Building Gen AI Agents with Natural Language) and Versa Networks (Secure WAN Networking/SASE Leader – Unicorn).
Exits from Ursheet’s early partnerships with founders have realized over $1.5B in exit value including Rancher Labs (Leading Kubernetes Platform acquired by SUSE, Cloud Genix (Leading SD-WAN Platform acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and Foodsmart (Leading Telenutrition Platform).
Prior to Mayfield, Ursheet was co-founder & CEO of StorSimple – the leading cloud-integrated storage company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. Ursheet had an operating career as a repeat entrepreneur and executive at Cisco and Microsoft. He also worked at Deloitte Consulting and Andiamo Systems, a storage networking startup that was acquired by Cisco.
Ursheet holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai, from which he received the Young Alumni Achiever award in 2015.
Ursheet is passionate about transforming college education and accelerating healthcare innovation. In that context, Ursheet has been a founder of Plaksha University that aims to reimagine tech and bio engineering education in India and a founding board member of The Digital Health Hub Foundation.
2015 Young Alumni Achiever Award
Acquired by Microsoft
