Navin Chaddha

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Mayfield raised just shy of $1B to avoid unicorn hype

Navin Chaddha, the storied investor running Mayfield Fund, doesn’t want to be running a billion-dollar fund like many of his peers. “Everyone wants to be Sequoia or a16z,” he said, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We want to be who we are: just copying somebody else is strategy for disaster, strategy for failure.” “We could…

8:01 am PDT • May 8, 2023
Mayfield raised just shy of $1B to avoid unicorn hype

The cannabis industry is doing well in the United States: Over 75% of the population lives in a state where access is permitted, and the legal market is expected to…

TechCrunch+ roundup: Cannabis investor survey, product ops, recurring revenue financing

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Startup survival tips, content as a service, leading with transparency

Once investors started shaving value from high-flying stocks, it changed the game for early-stage valuations, says Navin Chaddha, managing partner at Mayfield.

11:28 am PDT • March 22, 2022
TechCrunch+ roundup: Startup survival tips, content as a service, leading with transparency

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CEO Manish Chandra and investor Navin Chaddha explain why Poshmark’s Series A deck sings

“When the CEO sets that culture of customer obsession and customer delight, it sets the foundation for the future.”

7:15 am PDT • March 27, 2021
CEO Manish Chandra and investor Navin Chaddha explain why Poshmark’s Series A deck sings

Poshmark has come a long way over the last decade. Launched in 2011, the social fashion marketplace has raised upwards of $150 million, and has now listed on the public…

Hear how Poshmark went from Series A to the public markets with Manish Chandra and Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha

Extra Crunch Live is off to a great start this year. Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt taught us how to nail the narrative. Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut and…

Check out the incredible speakers joining us on Extra Crunch Live in March

About a decade ago, I remember having a conversation with a friend about big data. At the time, we both agreed that it was the purview of large companies like…

9 investors discuss hurdles, opportunities and the impact of cloud vendors in enterprise data lakes

Arvind Gupta, the founder and head of IndieBio, is leaving the accelerator whose portfolio he helped build into a $3.2 billion life sciences powerhouse, to join the venture capital fund…

Leaving the $3.2 billion portfolio he helped build at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta joins Mayfield to create the Genesis Consortium

Many folks in the tech industry dream of making the jump from entrepreneur to investor, but few actually succeed in taking the leap. Navin Chaddha is one of those lucky…

Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha On The Road From Entrepreneur To Investor