1H 2026 in Review

People First. From Inception.

News Spotlight

Navin Chaddha Recognized as One of the Best 15 VCs of All Time
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Milestones: 1 Decacorn and 4 Unicorns
We Welcomed Matt Carbonara to the Mayfield Family
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Celebrated 30 Years of the Stanford Mayfield Fellows Program
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Pradeep Sindhu and Greg Estes Join Mayfield as Venture Advisors
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Founder Spotlight

Revolutionizing AI Capacity: SambaNova Honored on Forbes AI 50 List
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Building the Revenue Stack for the AI Era: Orb Joins Adyen
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From Inception to Acquisition: Scrunch Joins Sitecore
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From Inception to Iconic: Exaforce’s $125M Series B for Agentic SOC
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AI's Next Bottleneck Is Networking: Upscale AI
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The $30T Physical AI Market: Why We Backed Rhoda AI
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Why Thermodynamics is the New Frontier of AI Infrastructure
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The Inference Era Is Here: Backing AI Fabrik From Inception
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Why Marketing Needs Its Own Claude Code: Introducing Kana
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Rebuilding Enterprise Software for the Agentic Era: Hang Ten Systems
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Our AI POV

The AI Gold Rush: The Real Money Today is in AI Infrastructure
Claude as the New Browser
Follow the Money: The CMO’s AI Mandate
Q1 2026 VC Outlook: The AI Power Law Era
The Future of CXOs Series - CMO: The Architect
The Rise of Personalized and Headless Software in the AI Era
Physical AI: The Era of Labor as a Service
Mayfield's Founder & CEO Spring Gathering
Build the Future of AI: Mayfield AI Garage at HumanX + Berkeley + WashU
Inside the AI-Era CMO: Mayfield's Chief Marketing Collective
An Optimist’s View of SaaS
theCUBE + NYSE Wired: We’re Still in the Parking Lot of the AI Buildout
The OpenClaw Ecosystem
Weekly AI Spotlight: The Weekend Edition Series
HumanX: The VCs Behind the AI Narrative Machine
What Claude Code Can (and Can’t) Replace
Follow the Money: Enterprise AI’s Trillion-Dollar Moment
An Optimist’s View on Claude Code

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15 Companies Raised Follow-on Financing (Three in Stealth)

High-Speed Interconnect Based on THz Radio Over Wire
Agentic Teammates for Chip Engineers
Agentic Teammates for Security Ops Teams
Liquid Cooling for AI Data Centers
AI Visibility, Engagement, and Monetization Platform
Agentic Teammates for Production Ops
Agentic Sales Tax Service
Integrated Photonics for AI Datacenters
Foundation Model for Physical AI
Tik Tok for Software
Math, Chips, and Systems for AI Inference
Scale-Up and Scale-Out Networking Systems for AI Datacenters

Philanthropy

At Mayfield, we continue to contribute to philanthropy every year and are honored to be supporting these incredible organizations in 1H 2026: STVP, The Teal Foundation, Neythri, and SheTO.
Mayfield Fellows at Stanford
Ovarian Cancer Research and Patient Support
Leadership Support for South Asian Women
Executive Pathways for Women Engineers