Navin Chaddha is a proven serial entrepreneur and venture investor. Navin was ranked on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 dealmakers as #11 in 2009, #10 in 2008 and #58 in 2007. He invests in the Cleantech, Internet, Enterprise, Semiconductor, Software and Telecom industries in the U.S. and leads Mayfield's investments in India. His current Mayfield investments include Consim Info, Gigya, Mimosa Systems, Seedfund, Tejas Networks, WiChorus and WideOrbit.
Navin has made over 25 investments in the past, of which 9 have had IPOs and 6 have been acquired. Some of his past investments include Akamai (IPO), LVL7 Systems (acquired by Broadcom), NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), Rhythms NetConnections (IPO) and Vendavo in the U.S.; IL&FS Investsmart (IPO), Indya.com (acquired by News Corp), Makemytrip, Persistent Systems, Provogue (IPO) and Suzlon (IPO) in India.
Navin was founder and CTO of VXtreme, a streaming media software company that was acquired by Microsoft and became Windows Media. He served in various management roles at Microsoft after that. Navin was also the co-founder of iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ IPO) and CEO of Rivio (acquired by CPA2Biz).
Navin holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University (received the Stanford and IBM Graduate Fellowships) and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi (received the Director's Medal for being first in his class) and was honored with the prestigious distinguished IIT Alumni Award in 2006. Navin is a Charter Member of TiE. He holds over 35 patents and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by several organizations including Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and World Economic Forum.
Fun Facts About Me
I love to watch and collect DVDs of Bollywood movies, and have seen my favorite at least 20 times - Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
I attended cooking school (in India) and can make a hot curry!
