Navin Chaddha

Navin Chadda leads Mayfield, a private equity firm with investments in enterprise and consumer technology companies, 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. Chadda’s investments have created over $120 billion in equity value and over 40,000 jobs.

During his venture capital career, Chadda has invested in over 60 companies, of which 18 have gone public and 27 have been acquired. He 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.

As an entrepreneur, Chadda 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, a streaming media content delivery network.

Chadda is an active philanthropist who supports education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and food scarcity groups. He serves on the board for Him for Her, a social impact venture aimed at accelerating diversity on corporate boards.

Chadda holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a BTech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award.