Navin Chaddha

Navin Chaddha 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 who supports education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and food scarcity groups. He is the champion of the 25+ year Mayfield Fellows program at Stanford University, which trains students in entrepreneurship. He is the co-founder of Plaksha University in India, which is reimagining technology education. Under Mayfield’s Access for All program, interns from College Track are placed at Mayfield companies. Navin has partnered with The Farmlink Project, an organization that fights food insecurity by repurposing surplus produce, to create the Field Fellows changemakers program. He is also a board member of HimForHer, which is aimed at accelerating diversity on corporate boards. Other groups Mayfield supports include Neythri.org, AnitaB.org, Khan Academy and Second Harvest.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.