July 14th, 2010

SolarCity Wins $21.5 Million Funding Round from Mayfield

SolarCity today announced that it is taking a $21.5 million round of funding led by Mayfield Fund, and the company’s previous investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DBL Investors and Generation Capital. The company’s prior funding totaled approximately $134 million, and included investors First Solar, JP Morgan and Elon Musk.

SolarCity helps businesses, home owners and government agencies adopt solar power. It designs, installs and provides finance options for appropriate solar systems with a goal of helping its customers generate savings from clean power versus electricity generated from non-renewables. → Read More

May 18th, 2010

Mayfield Fund Leads $8 Million Round Of Funding For Cloud9 Analytics

Cloud9 Analytics, a provider of SaaS business analytics for line-of-business managers, today announced it has closed its Series C financing for $8 million. The financing round was led by Mayfield Fund, with participation from existing investors InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures. This brings its total in funding to $21.6 million.

Rajeev Batra of Mayfield Fund joins the Cloud9 Analytics Board of Directors. → Read More

February 8th, 2010

Win A Mentoring Session With Founders Of Digg, Flickr, Mint, Ning, Slide Or Zynga

Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round Capital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring sessions with the founders of Digg (Jay Adelson), Flickr (Caterina Fake), Mint (Aaron Patzer), Ning (Gina Bianchini), Slide (Max Levchin), and Zynga (Mark Pincus).

The raffle will take place at a private event in Silicon Valley with space for 100 attendees on March 1. But you can win a ticket for the event by applying here. The event and raffle are free, but the 100 attendees in the running will be selected beforehand by partners at Mayfield and First Round. → Read More

January 25th, 2010

Sean Moriarty, Rajeev Chawla Join Mayfield Fund As Entrepreneurs-In-Residence

Menlo Park, CA-based Mayfield Fund, founded over 40 years ago, has officially announced the expansion of its team with two noteworthy Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs): Sean Moriarty and Rajeev Chawla.

Moriarty is the former CEO and President of Ticketmaster who recently joined Eventbrite as a director. Rajeev Chawla founded and is the former President & CEO of NeoPath Networks, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in March 2007. → Read More

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