Mayfield

Mayfield is a venture firm that describes itself as the first institutional investor for early-stage AI founders. It says 70% of its investments begin at the founding of a company and that it has $3 billion invested in AI. Its track record includes HashiCorp, Poshmark and Lyft.

In 2026 Mayfield led the first seed round for Hang Ten Systems, the AI-native systems integration company founded by former Infosys chief executive Vishal Sikka, and joined the company's second seed round five weeks later.

Sources: Mayfield, TechCrunch

Leadership

• Navin ChaddhaManaging Partner

At a glance

Stage

Inception, Early stage

Focus

AI

AI companies backed

1

AI companies backed

• Hang Ten Systems · small AI-assisted engineering teams that build and modernize software for large companies, based in Palo Alto, California

  Led Hang Ten's initial $32 million seed round in 2026, then took part in its $53 million second seed round, announced September 16, 2026, which Xora led.

  Read our review of Hang Ten Systems · Source: TechCrunch, checked Oct 9, 2026