Mayfield Fund is a venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, home to many of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firms. Venture capital is a general term to describe financing for startup and early stage businesses as well as businesses in turn around situations. ... Cafe Borrone, adjacent to Keplers Books in the Menlo Center, is a popular lunch spot in downtown Menlo Park. ...

Mayfield was founded in 1969 by the late Tommy Davis, one of the first venture capitalists. Mayfield has raised 12 funds to date and has more than $2.3 billion under management. Since its inception, Mayfield has invested in more than 470 companies, taken over 100 companies public, and facilitated 150 mergers and acquisitions. Some notable investments include 3COM, Tibco, Genentech, Peribit, webMethods and Snapfish. 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) is a manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. ... Genentech, Inc. ... webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM), which was founded in 1996, is a company that provides business integration software. ... Snapfish is a web-based image sharing and print service owned by Hewlett-Packard. ...

Mayfield has eight managing directors including Yogen Dalal, Kevin Fong, Janice Roberts, Robin Vasan, Allen Morgan, David Ladd, Raj Kapoor and James Beck. Dalal joined the firm in 1991 and Fong joined in 1988, from Claris and David Systems, respectively. Dalal was also a member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox and co-authored the TCP specification while at Stanford University. Managing director is the term used for the chief executive of many limited companies in the United Kingdom and some other English speaking countries. ... Claris was a computer software company formed as a spin-off from Apple Computer in 1987. ... Ethernet is a frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. ... Stanford redirects here. ...

Mayfield's investments are primarily in early-stage information technology companies with a focus on enterprise software, Internet consumer & media services, and communications. [[[[[[Information technology]]]]]] (IT) or Information and communication(s) technology (ICT) (also Infocomm, esp. ... Enterprise Software is software that solves an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem) and usually enterprise software is written using Enterprise Software Architecture. ...

External links

• Firm's own website
• Independent view of firm
• Hoover's summary of firm
• Yogen Dalal's contribution to Internet Protocol
• Stanford Alumni Association article
• Entrepreneurs Foundation Board - Yogen Dalal
• External board of directors biography - Kevin Fong