Mayfield Select

Mayfield Fund, LLC is a global venture capital firm founded in 1969 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Mumbai, India. The firm specializes in early-stage investments across various technology sectors, including artificial intelligence, enterprise software, consumer technology, deep tech, and human and planetary health. Mayfield focuses on partnering with founders from the inception of their companies, aiming to build impactful enterprises that leverage innovative technology and business models. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $15 million in companies with revenues ranging from $10 million to $100 million, prioritizing opportunities in the United States, particularly in California, as well as in select markets in India and China. Mayfield has a strong track record, having invested in over 500 companies, resulting in numerous successful IPOs and acquisitions.

Tim Chang

Partner

Vikram Godse

Partner and Managing Director, India

Nikhil Khattau

Managing Director, India

Paul Kohli

Vice President of Investment Operations

Tejas Maniar

Operating Partner

Guru Pangal

Venture Partner

Sri Pangulur

Partner

Ursheet Parikh

Partner

Patrick Salyer

Partner

Zareer Shroff

Principal

Vaneeta Varma

CFO

Rajeev Batra

Partner

Past deals in Semiconductor

Recogni

Series C in 2024
Recogni Inc. is an innovative company that specializes in the development of artificial intelligence-based cameras and processors aimed at real-time object identification. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an additional office in Munich, Germany, Recogni focuses on creating high-performance, low-power inference processing solutions tailored for the automotive industry in both Germany and the U.S. The company’s technology integrates visual and depth sensor data to optimize performance, power efficiency, and visual range for autonomous vehicles. By providing scalable solutions for generative AI and intelligent autonomous platforms, Recogni enables clients to achieve advanced edge processing capabilities and enhances data center efficiency, ultimately supporting the growth of mobility markets.

Recogni

Series B in 2021
Recogni Inc. is an innovative company that specializes in the development of artificial intelligence-based cameras and processors aimed at real-time object identification. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an additional office in Munich, Germany, Recogni focuses on creating high-performance, low-power inference processing solutions tailored for the automotive industry in both Germany and the U.S. The company’s technology integrates visual and depth sensor data to optimize performance, power efficiency, and visual range for autonomous vehicles. By providing scalable solutions for generative AI and intelligent autonomous platforms, Recogni enables clients to achieve advanced edge processing capabilities and enhances data center efficiency, ultimately supporting the growth of mobility markets.

NUVIA

Series B in 2020
Nuvia, Inc. is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2019. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing silicon chips and microprocessors, specifically focusing on server system-on-chip processors tailored for data centers. Nuvia's processors aim to enhance computing performance while improving power efficiency and security, addressing the evolving demands of compute-intensive applications. By developing advanced processing chipsets, Nuvia seeks to deliver substantial performance and energy efficiency improvements, positioning itself as a key player in the next generation of computing technology.

NUVIA

Series A in 2019
Nuvia, Inc. is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2019. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing silicon chips and microprocessors, specifically focusing on server system-on-chip processors tailored for data centers. Nuvia's processors aim to enhance computing performance while improving power efficiency and security, addressing the evolving demands of compute-intensive applications. By developing advanced processing chipsets, Nuvia seeks to deliver substantial performance and energy efficiency improvements, positioning itself as a key player in the next generation of computing technology.

MIPS

Venture Round in 2016
MIPS Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing compute processors and related intellectual property (IP) that cater to AI-driven markets, including automotive, data centers, and both wired and wireless communications. The company focuses on RISC-V instruction set architectures (ISA), offering designs that are applicable to various sectors through licensing agreements with semiconductor firms and original equipment manufacturers. MIPS provides a range of embedded processors that can be tailored for standard, custom, semi-custom, and application-specific products, facilitating the creation of advanced deep learning applications. Its solutions enhance performance and power efficiency, enabling clients to meet stringent requirements and distinguish their products in competitive markets. MIPS operates sales offices in California, Japan, and Israel, supporting its global reach and client base.

ShineOn

Series C in 2011
Shineon (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise based in China, specializing in the development and manufacturing of high-brightness LED (HB LED) packaging products and chip technologies. The company focuses on delivering high-quality, reliable LED solutions with low thermal resistance and consistent color temperature, catering to various applications including LCD backlighting and solid-state lighting. Shineon's innovative approach includes the creation of optoelectronic devices and module technologies that support high-power and smart lighting systems, as well as miniLED displays for sectors such as virtual production and extended reality. Established by experts in the field, the company is backed by foreign investors and is committed to advancing LED technology without the need for additional electronic components in its lighting solutions.

Kickfire Analytics

Series B in 2008
Kickfire makes an analytic appliance for the MySQL data warehouse market. With 11 million active installations, MySQL is the world's most popular open source database and its adoption is accelerating. As the amount of data stored in MySQL grows, so too does the requirement to analyze this data for business decision making. However, the technologies required for data warehousing and high-performance query and reporting within the leading proprietary databases such as Oracle and SQL Server don't exist in MySQL. Kickfire has the answer. By combining hardware and software innovations with the ease-of-use of the MySQL open source database, Kickfire brings to market an analytic appliance with unheard of performance, simplicity, and economics. At the core of every Kickfire appliance is a new SQL chip that radically alters the economics of query processing by packing the power of 10s of CPUs into a single chip. Just as NVIDIA moved graphics processing from software to hardware, Kickfire has done the same for database operations. This disruptive innovation facilitates tremendous improvements in speed and reductions in cost and power. With Kickfire, the MySQL data warehouse market now has a fully functional, load-and-go analytic appliance that rivals any of the proprietary database appliances or specialized analytic databases in the world. And there is no expensive hardware buildout or complex tuning required. Kickfire was founded in 2006 by Raj Cherabuddi and Joseph Chamdani, two proven entrepreneurs with more than 50 issued patents. Prior to Kickfire, they founded Sanera Systems, a startup that focused on mission-critical, high-performance SAN switches. Sanera was successfully acquired by McDATA, a public company with $800M in annual revenues, and is now part of Brocade. Backed by blue chip investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Mayfield Fund and Pinnacle Ventures, Kickfire is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Lattice Power

Series B in 2007
Lattice Power (Jiangxi) Corporation is a high-tech enterprise based in Nanchang, China, specializing in the research and production of silicon substrate materials for gallium nitride (GaN) based light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Founded in 2006, the company focuses on innovative LED technologies, offering a wide range of products including high-power LED chips, which have received national recognition for their advanced technology. Lattice Power's product lineup encompasses solutions for commercial lighting, display applications, liquid-crystal display (LCD) backlighting, and vehicle lighting, including interior lights and intelligent driving assistance systems. The company is known for its proprietary GaN blue light emitting diodes with silicon substrates, supported by numerous patents, and maintains a diverse technological foundation that includes sapphire and carborundum substrates. As a subsidiary of Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited, Lattice Power continues to contribute to the evolution of LED technology, emphasizing cost-effective and efficient lighting solutions.

Ponte Solutions

Series B in 2007
Ponte Solutions, Inc. engages in delivering design-for-manufacturability solutions. It develops and markets model-based software products and design-for-manufacturing solutions that analyze, predict, and reduce the impact of process variability during the manufacture and design of semiconductors. The company’s customers include semiconductor companies, foundries, and design houses. Ponte Solutions, Inc. was formerly known as E-Z-CAD, Inc. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Yerevan, Armenia. As of May 15, 2008, Ponte Solutions, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mentor Graphics Corp. (NasdaqNM: MENT). As of May 12, 2008, Ponte Solutions, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mentor Graphics Corp.

Pixim

Venture Round in 2007
Pixim is a hardware company that builds chips for video cameras. Pixim's Digital Pixel System® technology revolutionizes the way video cameras capture and process images. Unlike traditional cameras, where each pixel cannot adjust to highlights and lowlights in the same scene, Pixim's patented Digital Pixel System® technology empowers hundreds of thousands of pixels to act like individual cameras constantly self-adjusting. This all-digital system enables Pixim-powered cameras to efficiently capture the whole picture, regardless of lighting condition or application – thus securing the highest resolution, natural color and clarity, while automatically eliminating image-compromising visual noise (e.g., glare, reflections). The result is more than superb image quality; it is accurate, actionable information that gives users the strength of certainty.

Tejas Networks

Venture Round in 2007
Tejas Networks India, Ltd. develops optical transmission products and solutions. It offers Ethernet over SDH/SONET products, carrier Ethernet over NG-SDH/SONET, carrier Ethernet switching equipment, generation optical transport equipment, C/DWDM access platforms, Ethernet cards, multi-service provisioning platforms, bandwidth provisioning equipment, and SDH/SONET multiplexer equipment. The company provides software solutions, including TejEMS, an element management system that provides integrated management of network elements in an intelligent optical network; and TejNES, an embedded network element software suite resident in each network element provides control and management of individual network elements. It also offers various services, including network planning, design, and optimization; network installation, commissioning, testing, and program management; customer support and post sales activities; and training, and system integration. The company's products are used in various applications, including access networks, regional backbone, wireless backhaul, Ethernet LAN over SDH WAN, customer premise equipment, multiple-ADMs, and wideband DXC. It serves carriers/ service providers, Internet service providers/cable MSOs, Utilities, PTTs, cellular operators, and original equipment manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Lattice Power

Series A in 2006
Lattice Power (Jiangxi) Corporation is a high-tech enterprise based in Nanchang, China, specializing in the research and production of silicon substrate materials for gallium nitride (GaN) based light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Founded in 2006, the company focuses on innovative LED technologies, offering a wide range of products including high-power LED chips, which have received national recognition for their advanced technology. Lattice Power's product lineup encompasses solutions for commercial lighting, display applications, liquid-crystal display (LCD) backlighting, and vehicle lighting, including interior lights and intelligent driving assistance systems. The company is known for its proprietary GaN blue light emitting diodes with silicon substrates, supported by numerous patents, and maintains a diverse technological foundation that includes sapphire and carborundum substrates. As a subsidiary of Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited, Lattice Power continues to contribute to the evolution of LED technology, emphasizing cost-effective and efficient lighting solutions.

Fultec Semiconductor

Series C in 2006
Fultec Semiconductor is a circuit protection semiconductor company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2001. It specializes in transient blocking devices designed to protect telecommunication and data communication systems from over-voltage and over-current incidents. The company's products provide wide bandwidth circuit protection against various electrical disturbances, including lightning, power induction, power cross, and short circuit events. Fultec's solutions serve multiple applications across sectors such as telecommunications, data communications, sensors, automotive, and power distribution. As of October 2008, Fultec Semiconductor operates as a subsidiary of Bourns, Inc.

Inphi

Series D in 2005
Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Pixim

Venture Round in 2005
Pixim is a hardware company that builds chips for video cameras. Pixim's Digital Pixel System® technology revolutionizes the way video cameras capture and process images. Unlike traditional cameras, where each pixel cannot adjust to highlights and lowlights in the same scene, Pixim's patented Digital Pixel System® technology empowers hundreds of thousands of pixels to act like individual cameras constantly self-adjusting. This all-digital system enables Pixim-powered cameras to efficiently capture the whole picture, regardless of lighting condition or application – thus securing the highest resolution, natural color and clarity, while automatically eliminating image-compromising visual noise (e.g., glare, reflections). The result is more than superb image quality; it is accurate, actionable information that gives users the strength of certainty.

T-RAM Semiconductor

Series C in 2005
T-RAM Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed an innovative process based on TCCT (Thin-Capacitively-Coupled-Thyristor) technology, which produces a memory cell one-fourth to one-eighth the size of competing 6T-SRAM (Six Transistor-Static Random Access Memory) memory technology. T-RAM Semiconductor is using its proprietary TCCT technology advantage to produce both higher density and lower cost High Performance Synchronous SRAM's targeting the discrete and embedded memory needs of high- performance computer servers, networking, and telecom.

Inphi

Series C in 2004
Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Pixim

Series D in 2003
Pixim is a hardware company that builds chips for video cameras. Pixim's Digital Pixel System® technology revolutionizes the way video cameras capture and process images. Unlike traditional cameras, where each pixel cannot adjust to highlights and lowlights in the same scene, Pixim's patented Digital Pixel System® technology empowers hundreds of thousands of pixels to act like individual cameras constantly self-adjusting. This all-digital system enables Pixim-powered cameras to efficiently capture the whole picture, regardless of lighting condition or application – thus securing the highest resolution, natural color and clarity, while automatically eliminating image-compromising visual noise (e.g., glare, reflections). The result is more than superb image quality; it is accurate, actionable information that gives users the strength of certainty.

Inphi

Series B in 2002
Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Pixim

Series C in 2001
Pixim is a hardware company that builds chips for video cameras. Pixim's Digital Pixel System® technology revolutionizes the way video cameras capture and process images. Unlike traditional cameras, where each pixel cannot adjust to highlights and lowlights in the same scene, Pixim's patented Digital Pixel System® technology empowers hundreds of thousands of pixels to act like individual cameras constantly self-adjusting. This all-digital system enables Pixim-powered cameras to efficiently capture the whole picture, regardless of lighting condition or application – thus securing the highest resolution, natural color and clarity, while automatically eliminating image-compromising visual noise (e.g., glare, reflections). The result is more than superb image quality; it is accurate, actionable information that gives users the strength of certainty.

Clearwater Networks

Series B in 2001
Clearwater Networks (formerly XStream Logic) is developing the industry’s first single-processor packet processing solution capable of performing 7-layer packet processing at 10-Gigabit data rates. XStream’s family of network processors is targeted at solving the critical bottleneck in next-generation network infrastructure equipment: layers 4-7 packet processing. Edge and core routers, content-aware web switches, network attached storage devices, and other networking appliances all require the need to implement advanced services that are beyond the capability of existing semiconductor solutions. XStream ’s products are able to solve a wide variety of applications and advanced services using a simple, single-processor architecture that reduces system complexity and improves customers’ time to market.

Inphi

Series A in 2001
Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Pixim

Series B in 2000
Pixim is a hardware company that builds chips for video cameras. Pixim's Digital Pixel System® technology revolutionizes the way video cameras capture and process images. Unlike traditional cameras, where each pixel cannot adjust to highlights and lowlights in the same scene, Pixim's patented Digital Pixel System® technology empowers hundreds of thousands of pixels to act like individual cameras constantly self-adjusting. This all-digital system enables Pixim-powered cameras to efficiently capture the whole picture, regardless of lighting condition or application – thus securing the highest resolution, natural color and clarity, while automatically eliminating image-compromising visual noise (e.g., glare, reflections). The result is more than superb image quality; it is accurate, actionable information that gives users the strength of certainty.

Wavesplitter

Venture Round in 2000
In today’s highly competitive optical communications market, creating and enabling competitive advantage for their customers is extremely important to Wavesplitter. They can deliver these advantages with high efficiency, through their extensive range of partners specialized in fast track product development, volume manufacturing capacity, cost competitive operations, focused on Quality and state of art Performance. Wavesplitter offers a broad range of high performance passive and active optical components for enterprise and residential broadband networks. Your product choices can range from passive pump laser combiners, isolators, wavelength division multiplexers through to low and high speed transceivers products for LAN’s, Metro, Access, Short and Long haul networks.

T-RAM Semiconductor

Series A in 2000
T-RAM Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed an innovative process based on TCCT (Thin-Capacitively-Coupled-Thyristor) technology, which produces a memory cell one-fourth to one-eighth the size of competing 6T-SRAM (Six Transistor-Static Random Access Memory) memory technology. T-RAM Semiconductor is using its proprietary TCCT technology advantage to produce both higher density and lower cost High Performance Synchronous SRAM's targeting the discrete and embedded memory needs of high- performance computer servers, networking, and telecom.

Lightspeed Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2000
LightSpeed Semiconductor provides time-to-market, yield, manufacturability, and development expense advantages over cell implementation.

Excess Bandwidth

Series B in 2000
Excess Bandwidth Corp. specializes in developing algorithms that facilitate the connection of Internet voice and data services across multiple devices using copper twisted-pair wires. The company is recognized for creating technology that complies with the G.shdsl/HDSL2 high-speed symmetric DSL specification, which allows for the efficient transmission of high-speed voice and data over a single pair of wires. Established in 1998, Excess Bandwidth is a privately held company that focuses on designing symmetrical digital subscriber line physical-layer chips and mixed signal semiconductors for communications processors. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to enhance high-bandwidth communications.

NewPort Communications

Series B in 2000
NewPort Communications is a supplier of mixed-signal integrated circuits for the high-speed communications market. The Company's business objective is to develop highly integrated single-chip solutions that enable economic scaling of the existing bandwidth capacity of today's fiber-based networks.

Wavesplitter

Venture Round in 1999
In today’s highly competitive optical communications market, creating and enabling competitive advantage for their customers is extremely important to Wavesplitter. They can deliver these advantages with high efficiency, through their extensive range of partners specialized in fast track product development, volume manufacturing capacity, cost competitive operations, focused on Quality and state of art Performance. Wavesplitter offers a broad range of high performance passive and active optical components for enterprise and residential broadband networks. Your product choices can range from passive pump laser combiners, isolators, wavelength division multiplexers through to low and high speed transceivers products for LAN’s, Metro, Access, Short and Long haul networks.

Clearwater Networks

Series A in 1999
Clearwater Networks (formerly XStream Logic) is developing the industry’s first single-processor packet processing solution capable of performing 7-layer packet processing at 10-Gigabit data rates. XStream’s family of network processors is targeted at solving the critical bottleneck in next-generation network infrastructure equipment: layers 4-7 packet processing. Edge and core routers, content-aware web switches, network attached storage devices, and other networking appliances all require the need to implement advanced services that are beyond the capability of existing semiconductor solutions. XStream ’s products are able to solve a wide variety of applications and advanced services using a simple, single-processor architecture that reduces system complexity and improves customers’ time to market.

Cypress Semiconductor

Venture Round in 1983
Cypress Semiconductor operates as a semiconductor company in the United States and internationally. It delivers various high-performance, mixed-signal, and programmable solutions. Its products include programmable system-on-chip products, capacitive sensing, and touchscreen solutions, universal serial bus controllers, wirelessUSB, CyFi low-power radio frequency, programmable clocks, and buffers. Cypress Semiconductor also offers communication products, peripheral controllers, dual-port interconnects, programmable logic devices, and power PSoC, as well as line of switches, cable drivers, and equalizers for the professional video market. Moreover, it provides peripheral bridge controllers, dual-port memories, physical layer devices, and programmable logic devices. Further, it designs and manufactures SRAM products and nonvolatile memories that are used to store and retrieve data in networking, wireless infrastructure and handsets, computation, consumer, automotive, industrial, and various electronic systems, as well as provides image sensor products that are used in industrial, medical, and aeronautic applications. Additionally, Cypress Semiconductor offers a wireless pneumatic thermostat that enables remote temperature sensing and control; a wireless gauge reader, which clips onto the face of existing gauges to capture and transmit data; a wireless steam trap monitor that detects leaks and failures; a wireless transducer reader, which provides energy-use characterization and baseline data for audits; and optical navigation sensors. It serves consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, medical, and industrial markets. The company markets its products through direct sales force, distributors, trading companies, and representative firms.

Linear Technology

Series A in 1981
Linear Technology Corporation is recognized as a leading analog semiconductor company. It specializes in the design, manufacture, and marketing of high-performance integrated circuits. The company focuses on creating analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits that address complex engineering challenges. Its products are utilized across various sectors, including communications, networking, industrial applications, automotive, computing, medical instrumentation, military, and aerospace systems. By bridging the analog and digital realms, Linear Technology supports a wide range of technological advancements and innovations.

LSI Logic

Venture Round in 1981
LSI is an Avago Technologies Company. Visit www.avagotech.com for information on Avago's broad range of analog, digital, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems for the wireless communications, wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial and other markets.
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