The Managing Director of Mayfield Fund, Navin Chaddha, has co-founded three companies in his 20s, including VXtreme (acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media) and iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ: IBEM). To that end, he has been fortunate to be named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He also holds the record of getting featured in Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors for eleven times, listed as one of the Top 12 VC Hotshots by Red Herring and a Power Player West, Mobile, Cloud and Green Power Player by Always On. Under his leadership, Mayfield has raised $1.5 billion in new capital through six funds – (four US and two dedicated India funds); partnered with over 100 entrepreneurs who want to change the way people work, live, and play. He also has been involved in the successful financial outcome of 39 portfolio companies. Chaddha has expanded the investing team with world-class professionals, and assembled a comprehensive team of portfolio services executives. With fifteen years of experience as a venture investor, and ten years prior to that as an entrepreneur, Chaddha’s current investments include notable companies like Fungible, MapR, HashiCorp, and Poshmark. Chaddha has championed entrepreneurs of over 50 companies in the mobile, social, cloud/ SaaS, energy tech, and big data themes in the U.S., India, and China. He is also the founder of Mayfield’s dedicated India Fund, which he oversees. Some of Chaddha’s most significant investments comprise IPOs of Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM), LYFT(NASDAQ: LYFT), Makemytrip (NASDAQ:MMYT), Persistent Systems (NSE:PERSISTENT), Rhythms NetConnections (NASDAQ: RTHM), Solarcity (NASDAQ:SCTY), Suzlon (NSE:SUZLON), and acquisitions of Ankeena/Juniper, CPower/ Constellation Energy, Elastica/Blue Coat/ Symantec, Neopath Networks/Cisco, Pulse/ LinkedIn, StorSimple/Microsoft, Wichorus/Tellabs and Zenprise/Citrix. Chaddha also invested in Gigya, which was acquired by SAP for $350 million in September 2017. Recently, Chaddha invested in three stealth startups spanning cloud security, semiconductors, and blockchain. With 35 patents added to his name, Chaddha has a tremendous impact on the investment sector. He serves on the advisory board of Stanford Engineering Venture Fund, as well.

One of the most leading and popular venture firms, General Catalyst Managing Director Hemant Taneja has hit all the success points in the last decade with Snapchat, Airbnb, Stripe, Hubspot, and Gusto. Taneja, a five-degree holder from MIT has a lot of accolades in his career. The man took the lead of his venture capital firm and made $3.75 billion. In 2011, he launched his Palo Alto office of the firm with a keen interest to change the way industries work. Taneja’s investment thesis, “economies of unscale” talks about the small, niche or tightly focused companies that want to champion much larger companies by leveraging data and services. In the Midas List, Taneja is steadily rising to grab the top position also is currently taking out time to focus on his health this year. In January 2019, the investor-led a $31 million Series B in mental health startup called Mindstrong. Along the same lines, Taneja made another investment in Livongo, a digital health startup which is also targeting an IPO within this year. With a strong interest in the fields of energy, education, media, finance, and medicine, this man is working with a gamut of companies such as Stripe, Snapchat, Gusto, Livongo Health, TuneIn, ClassDojo, Fundbox, Digit, Fractyl, Gridco Systems, and Highfive. Taneja has a mind of combining technology with policy, for which he serves at the board of Khan Academy as well as co-created a public policy advocacy group called Advanced Energy Economy. A $10 million initiative, GC Stripe Platform Fund that aims to help jumpstart new ventures built on the Stripe Connect Platform, is directed by Taneja.

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