Mayfield Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

685

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

356

Rounds per year

12.45

Lead investments

83

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

177

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareTelecommunications

Summary

Mayfield Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1969. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Mayfield Fund performs on 5 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Mayfield Fund is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lyft, Marketo, Qunar.com The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

We also calculated 10 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Mayfield Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Rembrandt Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Uncork Capital, Shasta Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tallwood Venture Capital, Redpoint, Norwest Venture Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/EnterpriseSemiconductorsHealthcareClimate tech
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 955000000
Fund raised date
2023-05-08

Analytics

Total investments
685
Lead investments
83
Exits
177
Rounds per year
12.45
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Software (231)
  • Enterprise Software (113)
  • Internet (100)
  • SaaS (89)
  • Information Technology (79)
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Investments by region
  • United States (569)
  • India (65)
  • China (15)
  • United Kingdom (10)
  • Germany (3)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
21
Number of Decacorns
27
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
459M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
9.91
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Five Stars 03 Aug 2012 Financial Services, Payments, Mobile Apps, Marketing, Loyalty Programs, Point of Sale Early Stage Venture 13M United States, California, San Francisco
Frore Systems 29 May 2024 Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering Late Stage Venture 80M United States, California, Sunnyvale
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