Articles from Mayfield

Mayfield, a leading early-stage venture capital firm, and Divot, an initiative by the global entrepreneurial community Startup Grind, today unveiled the 2025 Mayfield | Divot AI List, celebrating 50 rising stars and emerging leaders shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The honorees include innovators, builders, researchers, founders, policy makers, and media voices shaping the future of AI. See the complete list here.

Mayfield and Divot, a Startup Grind initiative, today announced the opening of nominations for the Mayfield | Divot AI List, a new annual effort to recognize 100 rising stars in AI. The list will spotlight innovators, founders, builders, and thinkers whose early contributions are shaping the next era of AI.

Mayfield, a top-tier early-stage venture capital firm, announced today AI Garage, a $100 million initiative aimed at ideation-stage founders building AI teammates as digital companions. The firm has identified teammates as a $6 trillion* opportunity that ushers in the era of Collaborative Intelligence, where humans partner with AI to revolutionize the way we work and live.

Mayfield today announced that Sri Pangulur, a proven enterprise investor and operating leader, will join the team as the first dedicated partner to focus on investing out of the firm’s Select/Spring funds which invest in new companies (primarily at the Series B round) from outside its portfolio and follow-on rounds of existing breakout portfolio companies. This brings the investing team to eight partners, along with the founder amplification team of four operating executives who provide business development, marketing, operations, finance, and talent support.

Mayfield, a top-tier early-stage venture capital firm, today announced the $250 million AI Start, the first seed fund in its history, to partner with AI-first founders starting at Day Zero. The Firm also added Vijay Reddy, an AI-focused investor with a decade of successful seed stage experience, as a dedicated AI Start Seed Fund partner.

Mayfield, a top-tier early stage investor, today announced that it has raised a total of $955 million across two venture capital funds to continue its focus on being a champion of entrepreneurs.