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Mayfield, a venture capital firm that invests from seed to late-stage rounds, announced today that it has closed two new funds totaling up to $525 million.
The majority of that capital ($400 million) makes up Mayfield XV, the fund focused on early-stage companies, while the rest ($125 million) will go to Mayfield Select for later-stage investing. Mayfield says that Mayfield Select is a first for the firm, which has traditionally focused on investing in younger startups. Even so, those late-stage dollars will be used to fuel growth of existing portfolio companies, so it’s unlikely to see Mayfield participating in late-stage rounds for companies foreign to the firm.
This is a notable approach, as some other early-stage firms will simply reserve some unannounced portion of their fund for follow-on capital. Instead, Mayfield’s two new funds clearly draw the line.
Headquartered in Menlo Park and one of Silicon Valley’s oldest VC firms, Mayfield has helped fund some of the early giants in technology. Some of those early investments include Atari, Genentech, Compaq, SanDisk, and Citrix—all of which were founded before 1990.
Here are some of the firm’s more recent investments:
“We raise early-stage focused funds of approximately $400 million usually every 3-4 years and invest in roughly 30 companies per fund,” said Mayfield Managing Director Navin Chaddha in a prepared statement. “Mayfield XV is our fourth consecutive fund with a consistent size that follows our established strategy of investing primarily in early-stage technology companies serving enterprises and consumers.”
Though Mayfield has two new funds, its management team will remain the same: Navin Chaddha, Rajeev Batra, Tim Chang, Ursheet Parikh, and Robin Vasan.
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